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N the year 1666, when the Lord’s persecuted & oppressed people were gathered together for their own defence, who were broken at Pentland-hills, he, with Mr. Welch & the Laird of Glorover. in the parish of Balentrea, were riding together in that parish, they met upon the way a party of the enemy’s horse, and no eviting of them; the Laird fainted, fearing they would all be taken. Mr. Peden seeing this, said, “Keep up your courage & confidence, for God hath laid an arrest upon these men, that they shall not harm us.” When they met, they were courteous, and asked the way: Mr. Peden went off the way, and shewed the flood of the water of Tit. When he returned, the Laird said, “Why did you go with them? You might have sent the lad with them.” He said, “No no; it was more safe for me; for they might have asked questions at the lad, and he might have fainted and discovered us. For myself, I knew they would be like the Egyptian dogs, they would not move a tongue against me; for my hour of falling into their hands, & the day of trial, is not come, that is abiding me.” There is an old Christian gentlewoman. yet alive in Edinburgh, a daughter of the said Laird’s, who told me of late, that she had several times heard her father-give an account of this. She also told me, since Bothwel-bridge fight, she heard him preach in the fields, in the foresaid parish; and a woman sitting before the tent looking up to him, he said “How have you the confidence to look up? Look down to hell, where you are going; the devil has a fast grip of you & will not lose it.” That woman lived & died under the mala fama of a witch, and  of the same.

2. About the year 1670, he was in Armagh in Ireland, one John Goodale, with his wife two serious zealous Christians, living in Armagh, who had gone from