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and devout ſtrain But being ſome time after ſeized with dreadful tortures of onſcience, confeſſed ſome of the moſt enormous crimes, ſaying 'Before God I have not told you the hundred part of what I am guilty of" Which coming from a man of ſo high repute for religion and piety, amazed all who were then preſent
When two of the magiſtrates came to his houſe in the night time to carry him to priſon, they found five dollars rolled up in clouts; and his ſiſter adviſe them eſpecially to ſecure his ſtaff and ſo they carried her and all off.
The money was put into the bag and the clouts thrown into the fire which made an unuſual circling and dancing in the fire.
There was another clout found, with ſome hard thing in it, which they threw into the fire likewiſe. It being a certain root circled and ſparkled like gun powder; and puffing from the tunnel of the chimney it gave a crack like a ſmall cannon, to the amazement of all that were preſent
The money was taken by one of the Baillies to his own houſe and laid in his cloſet. After family prayer, he retired into the ſame cloſet; during which time his wife and the reſt of the family were affrighted by a terrible noiſe within the ſtudy, like the falling of a houſe, three times after other. His wife knocking gave a fearful cry, “My dear, are you alive?" The Baillie came out, ſurpriſed at her ſhriek, having heard nothing. Whether he concealed what he heard, his wife being
