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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 was in danger to faint, and yet ſhe was helped to be a witness to all this, without either fainting or confusion, except when the ſhots were let off, her eyes dazzled. His corpse were buried at the end of his house, where ſhe was ſlain, with this inscription on his grave stone,
In earth's cold bed, the dusty part here lies,
Of one who did the earth us dust despise!
Here in this place, from earth he took departure;
Now he has got the garland of a Martyr.
This murder was committed between ſix and ſeven in the morning: Mr. Peden was about ten miles distant, having been in the fields all night; he came to the house about eight, 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 Martyrs' 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 Preshill 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.
