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continued without confusion. When ended, Claverhouse said, "Take good-night of your wife and children." His wife standing by, with her child in her arms, that she had brought forth to him, and another child of his first wife's he came to her and said, "Now, Marion, the day is come that I told you would come, when I spake first to you of marrying me." She said, "Indeed, John, I can willingly part with you." Then he said, "That is all I desire, I have no more to do but die." He kissed his wife and bairns, and wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his blessing. Claverhouse ordered six soldiers to shoot, and the most part of the bullets came upon his head, which scattered his brains upon the ground. Claverhouse said to his wife, "What thinkest thou of thy husband now, woman?" She said, "I thought ever much of him, and now as muhh as ever." He said, "It were mere justice to lay thee beside him." She said, "If ye were permitted, I doubt not your cruelty would go that length: But how will you answer for this morning's work?" He said, "To man I can be answerable, and for God, I will take him in my own hand!" Claverhouse mounted his horse and marched, and left her with the dead corpse of her husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, and gathered up his brains, and tied up his
