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 eight hours thereafter, they were fully confirmed in the truth of it.

5. In June 1673, he was taken by Major Cockburn, in the houſe of Hugh Ferguſon, of Knockdow, in Carrick, who conſtrained him to tarry all night. Mr. Peden told him, that it would be a dear night's quarters to them both. Accordingly, they were carried priſoners to Edinburgh. Hugh Ferguſon was fined in a thouſand merks, for reſetting, harbouring, and converſing with him. The Council ordered fifty pounds ſterling to be paid to the Major out of the fines, and ordained him to divide twenty-five pounds ſterling among the party that apprehended him. Some time after examination, he was ſent priſoner to the Baſs, where, and at Edinburgh, he remained until December 1668, that he was baniſhed.

6. While priſoner in the Baſs, one SabbatH-morning, being about the public worſhip of God, a young lass, about 13 or 14 years of age, came to the chamber door, mocking with loud laughter: He ſaid, "Poor thing, thou mocks and laughs at the worſhip of God, but, ere long God ſhall write ſuch a ſudden and ſurprising judgment on thee, that shall ſtay thy laughing, and thou ſhalt not eſcape it. Very ſhortly after, ſhe was walking upon the rock, and there came a blaſt of wind, which ſweeped her into the ſea, where ſhe periſhed.

While priſoner there, one day walking upon the rock, ſome ſoldiers paſſing by him, one of them ſaid, "Devil take him! "Fy, Fy, poor man, ſaid he, thou knoweſt not what thou art ſaying; but thou wilt repent that." At which word the ſoldier ſtood aſtoniſhed, and went to the guard diſtracted, crying aloud for Mr. Peden, ſaying, The devil would immediately take him away; He came to him again, and found him in his right mind, under deep convictions of great guilt. The guard being to change, they desired him to go to his arms; he refuſed, and ſaid, he would lift no arms againſt Jeſus Chriſt his cauſe, and perſecute his people, he had done that too