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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 he 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⟩ as dust despise:
Here, in this place, from earth he. took departure;
Now he has got the garland of a martyr.
This murder was committed betwixt 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’ name. 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, & has cruelly murdered John Brown, his corpse is lying at the end of his house, and his poor wife sitting weeping by his corpse, 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.
38. After this, two days before Argyle was broken and taken he was near Wigtown in Galloway; a considerable number of men were gathered together in arms to go for his assistance; they pressed him to preach, but he refused, saying, he would only pray with them; where he continued long, and spent some part of that time in praying for Ireland, pronouncing that
