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 escaped out of Canongate. Tolbooth in the month of August 1684. Being in danger every day he resolved to go to America and took farewell of his friends and went aboard of a ship. Mr. Peden said to his mother, "Mistress, what is become of John?" She said, 'He is gone to America." He said, "No no! he is not gone: send for him, for he will never see America" Accordingly it was so a storm arose where he was in great danger, but was preserved, and is yet alive.

29. Since the publishing of the former passages of Mr Peden's life and death, I received two letters from Sir Alexander Gordon of Earlstoun, in the year 1725 and 1726, since gone to his grave; shewing that he was not only fully satisfied, but much refreshed, with the passages, requesting me on no accout to delay the publishing of all that I proposed; and that he longed to see them before he went off the stage: Knowing that my day is far spent, being long since I was his fellow-prisoner, and taught him from my own experience, how to manage the great weight of irons that was upon his legs; and wishing that all the Lord's people, who have any zeal for the sworn to and sealed testimony, and savoury rememberance of the names of Christ', slain witnesses for the same and of the Lord's signal manifestations of his faithfulness and alls sufficiency to them, in their life and death-would give me all encouragement in such a piece of good and great generation-work, which may be useful and edifying, when he and I were both mouldering in the grave. For himsels be willingly would, and sometime a day could; but now, being 74 years of age, and 7 years in imprisonment and oftentimes in irons, and many other troubles through his life, his memory and judgement were much broken, and therefore he