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he goes to ſuch a place, and there he prays for the afflicted church of Scotland, and names ſo many people in the furnace. He wrought the ſecond day, and his miſtreſs watched and overheard him 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 him, and he ſhould not only be no enemy to him, but a friend to him. Mr. Peden ſaid, he was not aſhamed of his office; and gave an account of his circumſtanccs: he was no more ſet to work, nor to lie with the lad, and he ſtaid a conſiderable time in that place, and was a bleſſed inſtrument in the converſion of ſome, and civilizing of others, though that pace was noted for a wild, rude people, and the fruit of his labour appears unto this day. There was a ſervant-laſs in that houſe, that he could not look upon but with frowns, and ſometimes when at family-worſhip he ſaid, pointing to her with a frowning countenance, "You come from the barn and from the byre, reeking in your luſts, and ſits down among us, we do not want you nor none ſuch." At laſt he ſaid to William Steel and his wife, "Put that unhappy laſs from your houſe, for ſhe will be a ſtain to your family, for ſhe is with child and will murder it, and will be puniſhed for the ſame." which accordingly came to paſs, and ſhe was burnt at Craig Fergus, which is the uſual puniſhment of murderers of children there. I had this account from John Muirhead who ſtaid much in that houſe, and other Chriſtian people when I was in Ireland.
20 On the ſecond of Auguſt, 1684, he was in a Chriſtian Scots woman's house, called Margaret Lumbernor; that day there was an extraordinary ſhower of big hail, ſuch as he had never ſeen the like. She ſaid, what can be the meaning of this extraordinary hail? he ſaid, "Within a few years there will be an extraordinary ſtorm and ſhower of judgment poured out upon ⟨Ireland⟩: but Margaret, you ſhall not live to ſee it." And accordingly ſhe died before that rebellion; and the ⟨reſt⟩ had a ſad accompliſhment at Derry, and the water of Boyn.
