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16 dead-corpse of her husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grow, 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 been tried with the violent death of her husband at Pentland, and afterwards of two worthy sons, Thomas Weir, who was killed at Drumclög, and David Steel, who was suddenly shot afterwards when taken, The said Mairon Weir sitting upon her husband's grave, told me, that before that time, she could see no blood but she was in danger to faint, and yet she was helped to be a witness to all this, without either fainting or confusion, except when the shots were let off, her eyes dazzled. His corpse was buried at the end of his house with this inscription on his grave-stone.

In earth's cold bed, the dusty part here lies,

Of one who did the earth as dust despise,

Here, in this place, from earth he took departure;

Now he has got the garland of a Martyr.