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said to William Steel and his wife, "Put that unhappy lass from your house, for she will be a stain to your family, for she is with child and will murder 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 second of August 1684, he was in a Christian Scots woman's house, called Margaret 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 showers of judgement poured out upon Ireland; but Margaret thou shalt 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 weel want you and me," John said, "Sir, I have been very fruitless and useless all my days, and the world may well want me, but your death will be a great loss." "Well John, said he you and I shall be both in heaven shortly; but though 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 get the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in 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
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