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26 to ſpare to the poor; the victual lay ſpoiling in his houſe and yard waiting for a greater price; and two honeſt ſervant-laſſes whoſe names were Niſbet, being caſt out of ſervice, (for every one could not have it; many ſaid, they got too much wages that got meat for work) theſe two laſſes would not ſteal, and they were aſhamed to beg; they crept in unto an empty houſe, and ſat there wanting meat till their ſight was almoſt gone, and then they went about a mile of way to that farmer's yard, and cut four ſtocks of kail to ſave their lives: He found them, and drave them before him to the Laird of Bawd, who was a juſtice of peace, that he might get them punished. The Laird enquired what moved them to go by ſo many yards, and go to his? They ſaid theſe in their way were in ſtraits themſelves, and he could beſt ſpare them. The Laird ſaid, Poor conſcionable things, go your way, I have nothing to lay to you. One of them got ſervice, and the other died in want; it was her burial I mentioned before, who was buried by us four. But, lo! in a very few years, he and his were begging from door to door, whom I have ſerved at my door, and to whom I ſaid, "Who ſhould have pity and ſympathy with you, who kept your victual ſpoiling, waiting for a greater price, and would ſpare nothing of your fulneſs to the poor, and was ſo cruel to the two ſtarving laſſes, that you took priſoners for four ſtocks of kail to ſave their lives, ye may read your ſin in your judgement, if ye be not blind in the eyes of your ſoul, as ye are of one in your body, and may be a warning to all that come after you." Many yet alive in that country-ſide, can witneſs the truth of all theſe ſtrange things.

By theſe foregoing relations all may ſee, that theſe two ſervants of Chriſt, Mr. Cargill and Mr. Peden, were clear ſighted in what they did forſee and tell, which ſadly and exactly came to paſs about 13 years after bleſt Cargill's bloody death: And in ſeeing and foretelling ſuch ſtrange things they were not there