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8 he confidently said three times, though he should tear all his body in pieces, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the governor put him out of the garrison setting him ashore. He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian, Mr Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others who informed me.

7. When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him in Dec. 1678, and sixty more fellow-prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death: after this sentence was past, he several times said, that the ship was not yet built that should take him and these prisoners to Virginia, or any other of the English plantations in America. One James Kay, a solid and grave Christian, being one of them who lives in or about the water of Leith, told him, that Mr Peden said to him, James, when your wife comes in let me see her ; which he did. After some discourse, he called for a drink, and when he sought a blessing, he said, "Good Lord, let not James Kay's wife miss her husband, till thou return him to her in peace and safety, which we are sure will be sooner than he