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with the violent death of her husband at Pentland, and 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 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 or eleven miles distant.-Having been in the fields all night, he came to the house betwixt 7 and 8, 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 fight; and hasten the day when thou wilt avenge it, with Cameron's,
