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house about three times together. His wife gave a fearful cry, "My dear are you alive?" The bailie came out unafraid, having, he said heard nothing; whether he concealed this upon the account his wife was with child, or otherwise, it cannot be well known. The money was presently sent away to another bailie's house, at a great distance from Weir's; where there was some disturbance, but in broken expressions.
During the time of his imprisonment, he was never willing to be spoken to; and when the ministers of the city offered to pray for him, he would cry out in fury, "Torment me no more, for I am tormented already." One minister asking him, If he would pray for him? was answered, Not at all. The other replied, in a kind of holy anger, "Sir, I will pray for you in spite of your teeth and the devil your master to," who did pray, making him at least to hear him; but the other starting wildly, was senseless as a brute. Another minister asked him if he thought there was a God; said the man, I know not. The other replied smartly, "O man, the argument that moveth me to think there is a God, is thyself; for what else moveth thee to inform the world of thy wicked life?" But Weir answered, Let me alone. When he peremptorily forbade one of his own parish ministers to pray, one
