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desire, I have no more to do but die." He then kissed his wife and bairns, and wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his own blessing. Claverhouse then ordered six o£ his 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 think ye of your husband now, woman?"-She said, "I thought ever much of him, and now as much as ever." He said, "It were justice to lay thee beside him." She answered, "If ye were permitted, I doubt not but your cruelty would go that length: But how will ye 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 then marched, and left her with the dead corpse of her husband lying there. She set the bairn on the ground, gathered his brains, tied up his head, straighted his body, and covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desart place, where victual never grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her; the first that came was a very fit nand. that old singular woman in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth Menzies, three miles distant, who had been tried
