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 accordingly came to paſs. There was one Murdoch, a maſon to his trade, but then in the military ſervice, who firſt put hands to his corpſe.

A little before his death he ſaid, "Ye ſhall be angry where I ſhall be buried at laſt, but I diſcharge you all to lift my corpſe again." At laſt, one morning early, he came to the door, and left his cave; his brother's wife ſaid, Where are you going, the enemy will be here: He ſaid, I know that. Alas, Sir, ſaid ſhe, what will become of you? You muſt go back to the cave again. He ſaid, "I have done with that, for it is diſcovered: But there is no matter, for within forty-eight hours I will be beyond the reach of all the devil's temptations, and his inſtruments, in hell or on the earth; and they ſhall trouble me no more" About three hours after he entered the houſe, the enemy came and found him not in the cave; then they ſearched the barn narrowly, caſting the unthreſhen corn; and ſearched the houſe, ſtabbing the beds, but entered not into the place where he lay.

Within forty-eight hours he died, January 28, 1686, being paſt ſixty years; and was buried in the Laird of Afflect's Iſle. The enemies got notice of his death and burial, and ſent a troop of dragoons, and lifted his corpſe and carried him to Cumnock-gallows-foot, and buried him there (after being forty days in the grave) beſide others His friends thereafter laid a grave-ſtone above him, with this inſcription:

After this, that troop of dragoousdragoons [sic] came to quarter in the pariſh of Cambuſnethen: Two of them were quartered in the houſe of James Gray, my acquaintance they being frighted in their ſleep, ſtarted up, and clapped their hands, crying; Peden, Peden, Theſe two dragoons