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 his first wife's he came to her and said, "Now Marion, the day is come that I told you would come, when I spoke first to you of marrying me." She said, "Inded John, I can willingly part with you" Then he said, "That is all I desire, I have no more to do but die." Не kissed his wife and bairns, and wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his blessing. Claverhouse ordered six soldiers to shout, and the most part of the bullets came upon his head, which scattered his brains upon the ground. Claverhouse said to his wife. "What thinkest thou of thy husband now, woman?" She said "I thought ever much of him and now as much as ever." He said, "It were justice to lay thee beside him” She said, "If ye were permitted, I doubt not but your cruelty would go that length. But how will ye answer for this morning's work?" He said, "To man I can be answerable, and for God, I will take him in my own hand! Claverhouse mounted his horse and marched, and left her with the dead corpse of her husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground and gathered his bairns, and tied up up his head, and straighted his body and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her: The first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular woman in the Cumberhead named Elizabeth Menzie, three miles distant, who had beer tried with the violent death of her husband at Pentland, and afterwards of two worthy sons, Thomas Weir who was killed at Drumclog, and David Steel, who was suddenly shot afterwards when taken The said Marion Weir sitting upon her husband s grave, told me, that before