“ In the afternoon he prayed earnestly for the prisoners taken at and about Bothwel; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them, he halted and said, "Our friends at Edinburgh, the prisoners have done somewhat to save their lives that shall not do them any good; for the sea billows shall be many of their winding-sheets; and the few of them that escape, shall not be useful to God in their generation." ”

“ James Pride, who lived in Fife, an honest man, being one of them, he said many times, he could assert the truth of this, for he came safely home; and, beside other things, he bought two cows; and before that he never had one. I had these accounts both from the foresaid James Kay and Robert Punton, a known public man, worthy of all credit, who was also under the same sentence, who lived in the parish of Dalmeny, near the Queensferry.
11. When they arrived at London, the Skipper who received them at Leith, was to carry them no further. ”

“ John said, "We will take breakfast ere we go, it is a question when we will get the offer again." He answered, "No no, I will not eat bread in this place; our landlord is an unhappy man; the devil will get him shortly, for he will hang himself." Which very shortly after came to pass; his daughter, Jean Brown, was the first that got him in her arms, hanging in the stable. She was reckoned by all, to be a grave Christian lass, but from that day never had her health, and died of a decay at last, after she had been some time in prison for her principles. ”

“ Peden's death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house, in the parish of Sorn, where he was born. He caused dig a cave, with a saughen bush covering the mouth of it, near to his brother's house. The enemies got notice, and searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in this cave, he said to some friends, 1st. That God shall make Scotland a desolation.-2dly, There shall be a remnant in the land, whom God should spare and hide.-3dly, They should lie in holes and cavet of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink ”

“ His fulness is most strained when it wants a vent. It is easy for Christ to be holden busy in dividing the fulness of his Father's house to his poor friends. He delights not to keep mercy over-night. Everyday brings new mercies to the people of God. ”

“ Christ knows well, whether heaping or straking agrees best with our narrow vessels for both are alike to him: Sparing will not enrich him, nor will spending impoverish him. He thinks it ill-won that is holden off his people.— Grace and glory comes out of Christ's lucky hand. ”

“ That which the greatest part of these prisoners did, was the taking of that Bond, commonly called the Black-Bond, after Bothwel, whereiu they acknowledged their appearance in arms, for the defence of the Gospel and their own lives, to be rebellion; and engaged themselves never to make any more opposition: upon the doing of which, these perfidious enemies promised them life and liberty; which much grieved Mr. Peden.
14. After the public murdering of these two worthy women-martyrs, Isobel Allison, and Marion Harvie, in tho Grass-market of Edinburgh, January 1681. ”

“ There is a great part of our friends prisoners in Edinburgh." About 48 hours thereafter, they were fully confirmed in the truth of it.
5. After this, in June 1673, he was taken by Major Cockburn, in the house of Knockdow, in Carri k, who constrained him to tarry all night. Mr. Peden told him, that it would be a dear night's quarters to them both. Accordingly they were both carried prisoners to Edinburgh.-Hugh Ferguson was fined in a thousand merks, for resetting, harbouring, and conversing with him. ”

“ He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian where he became a singular Christian. Mr. Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others, who informed me.
8. When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him in Dec. 1678. and sixty more fellow prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death ”