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banished worthies (who were with him in America and came home) said to me, that he cxcceded all our banished, that they knew, in prevailing with some to set up the worship of God in their families, and young ones to pray, and join in societies for prayer and conference. What became of him since, I know not.
John Young went into Lothian after that, and kept a school, lived retired, and spoke little. Gibb and David Jamie, Isabel Bonn, and that other, woman, were again taken and put in the Canongate tolbooth where they took such fits of seven days fasting, that their voices were changed in their groanings and gollerings with pain of hunger, and then such excessive eating, that these with them admired how their bellies could contain so much. Gibb was so possest with a raging roving devil that they could not get public worship performed three times a-day, as their ordinary was in each room. Two of these prisoners took their tour about, lying upon him with a napkin in his mouth. George Jackson, who thereafter suffered at the Gallowlee, Dec 9th. 1684, at first when be came there prisoner, said Is that his ordinary? They said it was. He said. I shall stay his roaring; and threatned Gibb. He fell a-trembling, and put his own napkin in his mouth, but could not refrain his roaring. George desired them to halt in time of worship, and with feet and hands dash'd his head against the wall, and beat him so, that the rest were afraid that he had killed him outright. Gibb was a big strong man, for which he was called meikle John Gibb. After this, whenever they began, he ran in behind the door, with his napkin in his mouth, and there sit howling like a dog. I had these accounts from the prisoners who were with him, when I was carried into that iron house. Immediately after, John Gibb David Jamie, and the foresaid two were sent to America, where Gibb was much admired by the heathen, for his familiar converse with the devil bodily and offering sacrifices to him. He died there about the year 1729. David Jamie wrote a letter to his father in Linlithgow, where he was born, desiring him not to trouble himself about heaven or hell, for all these things were fancies, John Smith, that serious,solid
