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Rh four men were put in the Canongate tolbooth, and the twenty-ſix women in the Correction-houſe, and ſome of them ſcourged; and, as their friends loved and had money, they were ſet free. The greater part of them came to their right mind, after they had taſted of the bitter fruits of theſe demented deluſions, with whom I have had edifying converſation ſince.

The duke of York being in Edinburgh, he and all other enemies rejoiced at all theſe ſtrange things, and gave large money to theſe four men, for which they wrote a moſt blaſphemous paper to York, copies of which are yet in the hands of ſome. In a little time they were all liberate. Theſe four men, with Iſabel Bonn and another woman, whoſe name I have forgot, went weſt to the Froſt Moſs, betwixt Airth and Stirling, where they burnt the holy Bible, as they had exclaimed againſt the Pſalms in metre, and contents of the Bible as human inventions: every one of them had ſomewhat to ſay, when they threw their Bibles in the fire. John Gibb ſaid, He did that out of deſpite againſt God. The night before that horrid action of burning the Bible, Walter Kerr and John Young prayed all night in that moſs, and a light ſhining about them. Shortly after this Walter Kerr turned mad, and was for ſome time bound in Torphichen, where he was born. He came to his right mind again and went to Clyde, a mile beneath Lanark, to the houſe of Robert and Eliſabeth Bruce, two old ſolid, ſerious Chriſtians, both my acquaintances, who got a hearty ſmack of the ſweetneſs of the goſpel, in that good day at the Kirk of Shots, where he ſerved two years, and deeply mourned both night and day for what he had done: and wrote 38 ſteps thereof. He ſometimes ſaid, “If there were a Chriſtian Magiſtrate in the land, he would go to them and conſeſs all, and ſeek of them to execute juſtice upon him for burning the Bible. He told his maſter and miſtreſs, that he would be taken and baniſhed, which accordingly came to paſs in the year