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Edinburgh

CHAPTER V
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Many came'-- to see the heads--'out of Curiosity; yet I rejoiced to see so many concerned grave Men and Women favouring the Dust of our Martyrs.
There were Six of us concluded to bury them upon the Nineteenth Day of _October_ 1726, and every One of us to acquaint Friends of the Day and Hour, being _Wednesday_, the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their resting Graves.

We caused make a compleat Coffin for them in Black, with four Yards of fine Linen, the way that our Martyrs Corps were managed.

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