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in his right mind, under deep convictions of great guilt. The guard being to change, they desired him to go to his arms: he refused, and said he would lift no arms against Jesus Christ, his cause, nor persecute his people, he had done that too long. The governor threatened him with death, tomorrow about ten of of the clock; he confidently said, three times, though he should tear all his body in pieces, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the governor put him out of the garrison, setting 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.
When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him, in Dec. 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 past, 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. One James Kay, a solid and grave Christian, bebeing one of them who lives in or about the Water of Leith, told me that Mr. Peden said to him, "James, when your wife comes in
