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 his hand on the ſaid John, and ſaid, Encourage yourſelf in the Lord, and hold him faſt, John, for you will win up yonder ſhortly, and get on your braws. That night he went to the fields; and to-morrow, about ſix o'clock, John went to ſeek him, and found him coming to the houſe. He ſaid, John, let us go from this houſe, for the devil is about it, and will take his prey with him. John ſaid, We will take breakfaſt ere we go, it is a queſtion when we will get the offer again. He anſwered, No, no, I will not eat bread in this place, our landlord is an unhappy man, the devil will get him ſhortly, for he will hang himſelf. Which very shortly came to paſs; for his daughter, Jean Brown, was the firſt that got him in her arms, hanging in the ſtable. She was reckoned by all, to be a grave Chriſtian laſs; but from that day never had her health, and died of a decay at laſt, after ſhe had been ſome time in priſon for her principles. This paſſage the ſame John Wilſon reported ſeveral times to many, and ſome alive can bear witneſs to the truth of it.

14. In the year 1680, after the murdering of Mr. Cameron, and theſe worthies with him, at Airdſmoſs, he was near Machline, in the ſhire of Ayr; one Robert Brown, of Croſshouſe, who lived near Newmills, and one Hugh Pinaneve, factor to the Earl of Lothian, ſtabled their horſes in that houſe where he was, and went to a fair in Machline; and, in the afternoon, when they came to take away their horſes, they got a drink, and in the time of pit, the ſaid Hugh, a wicked wretch, both in principle and practice, broke out in a railing againſt ſufferers, particularly againſt Mr. Cameron: Mr. Peden being in another room over hearing all, was ſo grieved, that he came to the chamber door, and ſaid to the ſaid Hugh, Sir, hold your peace, ere twelve o'clock, thou ſhalt know what for a man Mr. Cameron was; God ſhall puniſh that blaſphemous mouth and curſed tongue of yours in ſuch a manner as ſhall be aſtonishing to all that ſhall ſee you, and ſhall ſet you up as a beacon to all railing Rabſhakehs. Robert