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 this cause and and persecute his people he had done too long. The governor threatened him with death tomorrow about ten of the clock; he confidently said three times, though he should tear all his body to pieces, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the governor put him out of the garrison, setting him ashore. He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian. Mr. Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison, and others, who informed me.

7. When brought from the Bays to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him in Dec. 1768. and sixty more fellow-prisoners, for the same cause to go to America never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death; after this sentence was past, he several times said, that the ship was not yet built that they should take him and these prisoners to Virginia, or any other of the English plantations in America. One James Kay a solid and grave Christian, being one of them, who lives in or about the Water of Leith, told me that Mr. Peden said to him. “James, when your wife comes in, let me see her;” which he did. After some discourse, he called for a drink, and when he sought a blessing, he said, “Good Lord, let not not James Kay’s wife miss her dear husband, till thou return him to her in peace and safety; which we are sure will be sooner than either be or she is looking for.” Accordingly, the same day month that he parted with her at Leith, he came home to her at the Water of Leith.

8. When they were on shipboard at the Water of Leith, there was a report, that the enemies were to send down thumbkins to keep them from rebelling; at the report of this. they were discouraged: Mr. Peden came above the deck and said, “Why are ye discouraged you need not fear, there will neither thumbkins nor bootkins come here: lift up your hearts and heads, for the day of your redemption draweth near; if we were once at London, we will be all set at