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thee, that shall stay thy laughing, and thou shall not escape it.”—Very shortly after, she was walking on the rock, and there came a blast of wind, and sweeped her into the sea, where she perished.
7. One day, when Mr Peden was taking the air upon the rock, some soldiers passing by him, one of them said, “Devil take him,” “Fy, fy, poor man, said Mr Peden, thou knowest not what thou art saying; but thou wilt repent that.” At which words the soldier stood astonished, and went to the guard-house distracted, crying aloud for Mr Peden, saying the Devil would immediately take him away! But when Mr Peden came to him, he found him in his right mind, under deep convictions of great guilt, The guard being to change, they desired him to go to his arms; which he refused to do, and said he would lift no arms against Jesus Christ and his cause, to persecute his people; he had done that too long. The governor threatened him with death to-morrow about ten o’clock; but he confidently said, three times, though he should tear all his body in peices, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the Governor put him out of the garrison, and set him ashore. He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian. Mr Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others, who informed me.
8. When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, sentence of banishment was passed upon him in December 1678, and sixty more fellow prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death. After this sentence was passed, he several times said that the ship was not yet built that should take him and these prisoners to Virginia, or any other of the English plantations in America.
