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 and gave him an account of his. He was no more set to work, nor to lie with lad; and he staid a considerable time in  place, and was a blesscdblessed [sic] instrument in the convcrsionconversion [sic] of some, and civilizing of others,  that place was noted for a wild rude people,  the fruit of his labour appears unto this. There was a servant-lass in that house, that could not look upon but with frowns: and sometimes, when at family-worship, he said,  to her with a frowning countenance. You from the barn and from the byre reeking  your lusts, and sits down among us; we do  want you, or none such. At last he said William Steel and his wife, Put that  lass from your house, for she will be a stain  your family, for she is with child, and will murder it, and will be punished for the same. accordingly came to pass, and she was burnt Carrick fergus, which is the punishment of murderers of children there. I had this account John Muirhead, who staid much in that  and other Christian people, when in Ireland.

20. After this, he longed to be out of through the fearful apprehensions of that dismal day of rebellion in Ireland, that came  it four years thereafter, and that he might  part with the sufferers in Scotland. He near the coast one morning: John