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 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, twice over, "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, near to his brother's house. The enemies got notice, and searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in this cave, he said to some friends, 1st. That God shall make Scotland a desolation.-2dly, There shall be a remnant in the land, whom God should spare and hide.-3dly, They should lie in holes