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head, and straighted his body, and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. His corpse was buried at the end of his house where he was slain, with this inscription on his grave:—
Mr Peden, before his death, said, "Ye shall be where I shall be buried at last, but I discharge you all to lift my corpse again. At last, one morning early he came to the door, and left his cave; his brother's wife said "Where are you going, the enemy will be there?" He said, "I know that." Alas, Sir," says she, "what will become of you? you must go back to the cave again." He said, "I have done with that, for it is discovered: But there is no matter, for within forty-eight hours, I will be beyond the reach of all the devil's temptations, and his instruments, in hell or on the earth; and they shall trouble me no more." About three hours after he entered the house, the enemy came and found him not in the cave; then they searched the barn narrowly, casting the unthreshen corn; and searched the house, stabbing the beds, but entered not into the place where he lay.
