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spare them. The Laird said, Poor conscionabie things, go your way, I have nothing to say to you. One of them got service, and the other died in want: It was her burial I mentioned before, who was buried by us four. But, lo! in a very few years, he and his were begging from door to door, whom I have served at my door, and to whom I said, "Who should have pity and sympathy with you, who kept your victual spoiling waiting for a greater price, and would spare nothing of your fulness to the poor, and was so cruel to the two starving lasses, that you took prisoners for four stocks of kail to save their lives? You may read your sin in your judgement, if ye be not blind in the eyes of your soul, as ye are of one in your body, and may be a warning to all that come after you." Many yet alive in that country-side, can witness the truth of all these strange things.
By these foregoing relations all may see, that these two servants of Christ Mr. Cargill and Mr. Peden, were clear sighted in what they did foresee and tell, which sadly and exactly came to pass about 13 years after blest Cargill's bloody death: And in seeing and foretelling such strange things, they were not alone in these days: The godly, and zealous, and faithful unto the death, Mr. John Blackadder, was at the Cowhill in the parish of Livingstone, in the year 1675, in the month of August: He went into the fields in the evening, being a retired place; when he came in, he was very melancholy: Some friends enquired what made him so sad? He said, he was afraid of a very dangerous infectious mist to go through the land that night, that might have sad effects, of many deaths and great dearth to follow; and desired the family to close door and window, and keep them as long close as they might, and take notice where the mist stood thickest and longest, for there they would see the effects saddest; which they did; And it remainedlongest
