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murder was committed betwixt six and seven in the morning, Mr. Peden was about ten or eleven miles distant. Having been in the fields all night, he came to the house betwixt 7 and 8, and desired to call in the family, that he might pray amongst them; when praying he said, Lord, when wilt thou avenge Brown's blood?—Oh! let Brown's blood be precious in thy sight; and hasten the day when thou wilt avenge it, with Cameron's, Cargil's, (and many others of our martyr's names.) and, oh! for that day, when the Lord will avenge all their blood! When ended, John Muirhead enquired what he meant by Brown's blood? He said, What do I mean? Claverhouse has been at the Preshil this morning, and has cruelly murdered John Brown; his corpse is lying at the end of his house, and his poor wife sitting weeping beside them, and not a soul to speak comfortably to her. This morning, after the sun-rising. I saw a strange apparition in the firmament; the appearance of a very bright, clear-shining star fall from heaven to the earth; and indeed there is a clear-shining light fallen this day, the greatest christian that ever I conversed with."

19. the time of Mr. Peden's death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house, in the parish of Sorn, where he was born. He caused dig a cave, with a saughen bush covering the mouth of it,