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21 saying? the enemy will be here she said, I know that Alas! Sir said she, what will become of you? You must go back to the cave again. He said, I have done with that, for it is discovered: but there no matter, for within forty-eight hours will be beyond the reach of all the devils temptations, and his instruments in hell or on the earth; and they shall trouble me no more. About three hours after he entered the house, the enemy came, and found him not in the cave; then they searched the barn narrowly, casting the threshen corn. and searched the house stabbing the beds, but entered not into the place where he lay.

Within forty-eight hours he died, Jan. 13th 1686, being past sixty years and was buried in the laird of Affleck's aisle, the enemy got notice of his death and trial, and sent a troop of dragoons, and lifted his corpse, and carried him to Cumnock gallows-foot, and buried him there, after being forty days in the grave, beside others. His friends thereafter laid a grave-stone above him, with this inscription.

HERE LIES

Mr ALEXANDER PEDEN,