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 continued without confuſion." When ended, Claverhouſe ſaid, "Take good-night of your wife and children." His wife ſtanding by, with her child in her arms, that ſhe had brought forth to him, and another child of his firſt wife's, he came to her and ſaid, "Now, Marion, the day is come that I told you would come, when I ſpake firſt to you of marrying me." She ſaid, "Indeed, John, I can willingly part with you." Then he ſaid, "That is all I deſire, I have no more to do but die." He kiſſed his wife and bairns, and wiſhed purchaſed and promiſed bleſſings to be multiplied upon them, and his bleſſing. Claverhouſe ordered ſix ſoldiers to ſhoot, 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 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 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 Cummerhead, named Elizabeth Menzies, three miles diſtant, who had been tried with the violent death of her huſband at Pentland, 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 that, ſhe could ſee no blood but ſhe