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19. After this, in the year 1682, he went ⟨to⟩ Ireland again, and came to the house of William Steel, in Glenwharry, in the county of Antri(illegible text) he enquired at Mrs. Steel if she wanted a servant for threshing victual? She said they did, and enquired what his wages were a-day, or a-week. He said, the common rate was a common rule to which she assented.—At night he was put ⟨to⟩ bed, in the barn, with the servant-lad; and the night he spent in prayer and groaning, up and down the barn. On the morrow he threshed victual with the lad, and the next night he spent the same way. The second day, in the morning, the lad said to his mistress, This man sleeps none but groans and prays all night; I get no sleep f(illegible text) him: he threshes very well, and is not sparing (illegible text) himself, tho’ I think he has not been used with it for he can do nothing to the botteling and ordering of the barn; and when I put the barn in order, he goes to such a place, and there he prays for the afflicted Church of Scotland, and names so many in the furnace.—He wrought the second day, and his mistress watched and overheard his praying, as the lad had said.—At night she desired her husband to enquire if he was a minister, which he did, and desired him to be free with
