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 : He turned about upon his knees, and said, Sir, know neither the nature of preaching nor praying,  calls this preaching; then continued without confusion. When ended, Claverhouse said, take goodnight your wife and children r His wife standing by with  child in her arms that she had brought forth to him,  another child of his first wife's, he came to her,  said, Now, Marion, the day is come, that I  you would come, when I spake first to you of  me. She said, Indeed, John, I can willingly with you. Then he said that's all I desire, I have more to do but die. He kissed his wife and bairns, wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his blessing. Clavers ordered 6 soldiers to shoot him; the most part of the bullets came upon his head, which scattered his brains upon ground. Claverhouse said to his wife, What thinkst thou of thy husband now, woman? She said, I thought much of him, and now as much as ever. He said, were but justice to lay thee beside him. She said, If were permitted I doubt not but your cruelty would  that length, but how will ye make answer for this  work? He said, to man I can be answerable; for God, I will take him in my own hand. Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with corps of her dead husband lying there; she set the  upon the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered  in her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. being a very desart place, where never victual grew, far from neighbours, it was sometime before any  came to her; the first that came was a very fit, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth Menzies, three miles distant,  had been tried with the violent death of her husband at Pentland, afterwards of two worthy sons,  Weir who was killed at Drumclog, and David , who was suddenly shot afterwards, when taken. said Marion Weir, sitting upon her husbands, told me, That before that, she could see no blood but she was in danger to faint, and yet was helped to be witness to all this, without either fainting or confusion, except when the shots were let off, her eyes. His corps were buried at the end of his house, he was slain, with this inscription on his gravestone. Rh