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 That dismal day, June 22d, 1679, at Bothwell-bridge, that the Lord's people fell, and fled before the enemy, he was forty miles distant near the border, and kept himself retired until the middle of the day, that some friends said to him, "Sir, the people are waiting for sermon." He said, "Let the people go to their prayers; for me I neither can nor will preach any this day; for our friends are fallen, and fled before the enemy at Hamilton; and they are hanging and hashing them down, and their blood is running like water!"

After the public murdering of these two worthy women-martyrs, Isobel Allison and Marion Harvie, in the Grass-market of Edinburgh, January, 1681, he was in Galloway. A professor of some note, who had more carnal wit and policy than to suffer him to be honest and faithful, after reasoning upon the grounds of their sufferings, affirmed that they would never be reckoned among the number of the martyrs. Mr. Peden said, after musing a little, "Let alone, you will never be honoured with such a death: and for what you have said against these two worthy lasses, your death will be both sudden and surprising." Which happened shortly thereafter: while standing at the fire, smoking his pipe, the man dropt down dead.

In the year 1680, after the murdering of Mr. Cameron, and these worthies with him