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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 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 wi't 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 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."
39. 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 poſitively refuſed, laying, he would ſouls pray with them where he continued long, and ſpent ſome part of that time in praying for Ireland, pleading that
