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10 his hands on the said John, and said, “John, have at the unhappy name of Stuarts! off the throne shall they go, if all the world should set side and shoulder to hold them on.” Afterwards he broke out in a rapture about our martyrs, saying, “They were going on the stage with fresh gales and full sails,-and now they are glancing in glory! O if ye saw them! they would fley you out of your wits.” He again laid his hands upon the said John, and said, “Encourage yourself in the Lord, and hold him fast, John; for you’ll win up yonder shortly, and get on your braws.” That night he went to the fields. To-morrow, about six o’clock John went to seek him, and found him coming to the house. He said, “John, let us go from the house, for the devil is about it, and will take his prey with him.” John said, “We will take breakfast ere we go, it is a question when we will get the offer again.” He answered, “No, no, I will not eat bread in this place; our landlord is an unhappy man; the devil will get him shortly, for he will hang himself;” which very shortly after came to pass; his daughter, Jean Brown, was the first that got him in her arms, hanging in the stable. She was reckoned by all to be a grave Christian lass, but from that day never had her health, and died of a decay at last, after she had been some time in prison for her principles. This passage the same John Wilson reported several times to many.

16. In the year 1680, after the murdering of Mr Cameron, and these worthies with him at Airdsmoss, Mr Peden was near Mauchline, in the shire of Ayr: one Robert Brown, of Cross-house, who lived near the New-mills, and one Hugh Pinaneve, factor to the Earl of Lothian, stabled their horses in that house where he was, and went to the fair in Mauchline; and in the afternoon, when they came to take away their horses,