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 lass from your house, for she will be a stain to your family, for she is with child and will murther it, and will be punished for the same; which accordingly came to pass, and she was burnt at Craig-Fergus, which is the usual punishment of murderers of children there. I had this account from John Muirhead, who staid much in that house, and other Christian people when I was in Ireland.

20. On the 2d day of August 1684, he was in a Christian Scots woman's house, called Margret Lumbernor; that day there was an extraordinary shower of big hail, such as he had never seen the like. She said, What can be the meaning of this extraordinary hail? He said, Within a few years there will be an extraordinary storm and shower of judgment poured out upon Ireland; but Meg, said he, you shall not live to see it. And accordingly she died before that rebellion; and the rest had a sad accomplishment at Derry and the water of Boyn.

21. On the second of February 1685, he was in the house of one Mr. Vernor, at night he and John Kilpatrick, Mrs. Vernor's father, a very old worthy Christian; he said to him, John, the world may very well want you and me. John said, Sir, I have been very fruitless and useless all my days, & the world may well want me. but your death will be a great loss. Well John, said he, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but tho you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven; but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection; but for me I must go to the bloody land (this was his ordinary way of speaking, bloody or sinful land, when he spake of Scotland) and die there, and the enemies out of their great wickedness will lift my corps unto another place; but I am very indifferent, John, for I know my body shall ly among the dust of the martyrs, & tho they should take my old bones and make whistles of them, they will all be gathered together in the morning of the resurrection; and then, John, yo and I, and all that will be found having on Christ's righteousness, will get day about with them, and give oer hearty assent to their eternal sentence of damnation. The same night after this discourse while about family worship, about 10 or 11 o clock explaining the portion of scripture he read, he suddenly halted and harkned, and said three times over, What's this I hear? and harkned a little time, and clapt his hands, and said, I hear a dead shot