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16. About the same time, he said to James Slowan, We muſt go to another house this night, for I am mistaken if there be not a very narrow search made this night. They went to William Craig's, and James went with them to the house, and returned to his own bed. When he awaked, the house was full of people, constables and others, making search for prisoners, who broke prison and were fled, but found none.
17 Mrs. Maxwel, or Mary Elphingston, yet alive, whom I mentioned in the former passages, whose heart's thoughts Mr. Peden told, when her child was baptized; that child is now a married woman, and has children of her own, whom I spoke with about three months ago. She came far (from Kilmarnock) to public occasions, about fifty miles distance. Mrs. Maxwel told me since, when last in Glasgow, that when the told me that, she forgot to tell me also, that when the child was in her father's arms, Mr. Peden said, That child's coming here at this time, is a testimony against the unfaithfulness of the ministers of Ireland. Ireland thinks that Carolina in America will be a refuge for them; but, as the Lord lives; it shall be no shelter them. And these of them, designing to go there at this time, many of them shall lose their lives, and the rest of them shall come home in great distress. And at that time there were two Ships setting out from Ireland to Carolina; one of them was cast away near Carolina, and seven score of people in her; the one half of them was lost. Mr James Brown, one of the ministers of Glasgow, since the Revolution, was one of the seventy who were preserved. The other Ship was driven back to Ireland, shattered and disabled, and the people greatly distressed.
18. One time travelling himself alone in Ireland, the night came on, and a dark mist, which obliged him to go into a house belonging to a Quaker: Mr. Peden said, I must beg the favour of the roof of your house all night.
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