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 When he awaked, the house was full of people, constables and others, making search for prisoners, who had broken prison and fled, but found none.

17. Mrs. Maxwel, or Mary Elphingston, yet alive, whom I mentioned in the former passages, whose heart's thoughts Mr. Peden told, when her child was baptized; that child is now a married woman and has children of her own, whom I spoke with about three months ago. She came far (from Kilmarnock) to public occasions, about fifty miles distance. The said Mrs. Maxwel told me since, that when she told me that, she forgot to tell me also, that when the child was in her father’s arms, Mr. Peden said, That child’s coming here at this time, is a testimony against the unfaithfulness of the ministers of Ireland. The people in Ireland think that Carolina in America will be a refuge for them; but it shall be no shelter to them: And these of them designing to go there at this time, many of them shall lose their lives, and the rest shall come home in great distress. And, at that time, there were two ships setting out from Ireland to Carolina; one of them was cast away near Carolina, and seven score of people in her, the one half of whom were lost. Mr. James Brown, minister in Glasgow since the Revolution, was one of seventy preserved. The other ship was driven back to Ireland, much shattered, and the people in great distress.

18. One time travelling alone in Ireland, the night came on, and a dark mist, which obliged him to go into a house belonging to a Quaker: Mr. Peden said, I must beg the favour of the roof of your house all night. The Quaker said, Thou art a stranger, thou art very welcome, and shalt be kindly entertained but I cannot wait upon thee, for I am going to the meeting Mr Peden said. I will go along with you, The Quaker said, thou may, if thou please; but thou must not trouble us. He said, I will be civil. When they came to the meeting, as their ordinary is, they