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answered, "No no, I will not eat bread in this place; our landlord is an unhappy man; the devil will get him shortly, for he will hang himself." Which very shortly after came to pass; his daughter, Jean Brown, was the first that got him in her arms, hanging in the stable. She was reckoned by all, to be a grave Christian lass, but from that day never had her health, and died of a decay at last, after she had been some time in prison for her principles. This passage the same John Wilson reported several times to many.


16. In the year 1680, after the murdering of Mr. Cameron, and these worthless with him at Airdsmoss, Mr. Peden was near Machline in the shire of Ayr: one Robert Brown, of Cross-house, who lived near the New Mills. and one Hugh Pinaneve factor to the Earl of Lothian, stabled their horses in that house where he was, and went to the fair in Machline; and in the afternoon, when they came to take away their horses. they got a drink in the time of it. The said Hugh, a very wicked man, both in principle and practice, broke out in a railing against sufferers, particularly against Mr. Cameron: Mr. Peden being in another room overhearing all, was so grieved, that he came to the chamber-door, and said to the said Hugh, "Sir, hold your peace, e're twelve o'clock thou