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 on the back of the Church in Scotland, Pagans yoked theirs, Antichriſt yoked his, and Prelacy hers, and now the plagued Eraſtian indulged, they have yoked theirs, and it ill becomes them; good Lord cut their theets, that the ſwingle trees may fall to the ground." Enſign John Kirkland was witneſs to this ſermon and marriage; he was my dear acquaintance, who told me ſeveral times of this, and more of that ſermon.

16. About the ſame time, he was marrying two pair of folks, he ſaid to the one, Stand by, I will not marry you this day. The bridegroom was anxious to know the reaſon; after enquiring privately, he ſaid, You will thank me for this afterwards, and think yourſelf well quat of her, for ſhe is with child to another wife's huſband: Which was matter of fact, as time afterwards diſcovered.

17. Shortly after that ſad ſtroke at Bothwel, he went to Ireland, but did not ſtay long at that time; in his travels through Galloway, he came to a houſe, and looking in the goodman's face, he ſaid, They call you an honeſt man, but if you be ſo you look not like it; you will not long keep that name, but will diſcover yourſelf to be what you are. And ſhortly after, he was made to flee for ſheep-ſtealing. In that ſhort time he was in Ireland, the Governor required of all Preſbyterian Miniſters that were in Ireland, that they ſhould give it under their hand, that they had no acceſſion to the late rebellion at Bothwel bridge, in Scotland, and that they did not approve of it: which the moſt part did, and ſent Mr. Thomas Gowans, a Scotſman, and one Mr. Paton from the north of Ireland to Dublin, to preſent it to the Lord Lieutenant; the which, when Mr. Peden heard, he ſaid, Mr. Gowans and his brother Mr. Paton are ſent and gone the devil's errand, but God will arreſt them by the gate. Accordingly Mr. Gowans by the way was ſtruck with a ſore ſickneſs, and Mr. Paton fell from his horſe, and broke or cruſhed his leg, and both of them were detained beyond