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20 1685. And ſome of our baniſhed worthies (who were with him in America, and came home) ſaid to me, that he exceeded all our baniſhed, that they knew, in prevailing with ſome to ſet up the worſhip of God in their families, and young ones to pray, and join in ſocieties for prayer and conference: What became of him ſince, I know not.

John Young went into Lothian after that, and kept a ſchool, lived retired and ſpoke little. Gibb and David Jamie, Iſabel Bonn, and that other woman, were again taken and put in the Canongate tolbooth, where they took ſuch fits of ſeven days faſting, that their voices were changed in their groanings and gollerings with pain of hunger, and then ſuch exceſſive eating, that theſe with them admired how their bellies could contain ſo much. Gibb was ſo poſſeſt with a raging roving devil, that they could not get public worſhip performed three times a day, as their ordinary was in each room: Two of theſe priſoners took their tour about, lying upon him with a napkin in his mouth. George Jackſon, who thereafter ſuffered at the Gallow-lee in December 9th 1684,-at firſt when he came there priſoner, ſaid, Is that his ordinary? They ſaid, it was. He ſaid, I ſhall ſtay his roaring, and threatened Gibb, he fell a trembling and put his own napkin in his mouth, but could not refrain his roaring: George deſired them to halt in time of worſhip, and with feet and hands daſh'd his head againſt the wall, and beat him ſo, that the reſt were afraid that he had kill'd him outright. Gibb was a big ſtrong man, for which he was called meikle John Gibb. After this, whenever they began, he ran in behind the door, with his napkin in his mouth, and there ſat howling like a dog. I had theſe accounts from the priſoners who were with him when I was carried into that iron-houſe. Immediately after, John Gibb, David Jamie, and the foreſaid two were ſent to America, where Gibb was much admired by the heathen for his familiar converſe with the devil bodily,