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with him, and he should not only be no enemy to him but a friend, Mr Peden said, he was not ashamed of his office ; and gave an account of his circumstances, he was no more set to work nor to lie with the lad, and he staid a considerable time in that place, and was a blessed instrument in the conversation of some, and civilizing of others, though that place was noted for its wild rude people, and the fruit of his labour appears unto this day. There was a servant-lass in that house, that he could not look upon but with frown's; and sometimes when at family worship he said, pointing to her with a frowning countenance, "You come from the barn, and from the byre, reeking in your lusts, and sits down among us, we do not want you or none such." At last he said to William Steel and his wife, Put that unhappy lass from your house, for she will be a stain to your family, for she is with child, and will murder it, and will be punished for the same which accordingly came to pass, and she was burned at Craig Fergus, which is the usual punishment of murderers of children there. I had this account from John Muirhead, who staid much in that house, and other Christian people when' I was in Ireland.

13. In the beginning of May, 1685, he came to the house of John Brown, and