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to a house and looking in the goodman's face, he said, 'They call you an honest man but if you be so. you look not like it, you will not long keep that name but will discover yourself to be what you are" And shortly after, he was made to flee for sheep-stealing. In that short time he was in Ireland, the Governor required of all presbyterian ministers that were in Ireland that they should give it under their hand, that they had no accession to the late rebellion at Bothwel-bridge, in Scotland and that they did not approve of it: which the most part did, and sent Mr. Thomas Gowans a Scotsman and one Mr. Paton from the north of Ireland to Dublin to present it to the Lord lieutenant, the which, when Mr. Peden heard, he said, "Mr Gowans and his brother Mr. Paton are sent and gone the devil's errand, but God will arrest them by the gate." Accordingly Mr Gowans by the way was struck with a sore sickness, and Mr. Paten fell from his horse, and broke or crushed his leg and both of them were detained beyond expectation I had this account from some worthy Christians when I was in Ireland.
18 In the year 1682 he married John Brown in Kyle, at his own house in Pristhall, that singular Christian, upon Marion Weir; after marriage he said to the bride, "Marion, you have got a good man to be your husband, but you will not enjoy him long; prize his company, and keep linen by you for nis winding sheet, for you will need it, when you are not looking for it, and it will be a bloody one"
This came sadly to pass in the beginning of May, 1685, as afterwards shall appear.
19 After this, in the year 1682 he went to Ireland again, and came to the house of William Steel in Glenwarry, in the county of Antrim, he enquired at Mrs Steel, it she wanted a
