Steele suddenly opening the door, fired a blunderbuss down at the two dragoons, as they were coming up the stairs; but the bullets grazing against the side of the turnpike, only wounded, and did not kill them.

Then Steele violently threw himself down the stairs among them, and made towards the door to save his life, but lost it upon the spot; for the dragoons who guarded the house dispatched him with their broadswords.

I was not with the party when he was killed, being at that time employed in searching one of the other houses, but I soon found what had happened, by hearing the noise of the shot made with the blunderbuss; from whence I returned straight to Lanark, and immediately sent one of the dragoons express to General Drummond at Edinburgh."-- SWIFT'S WORKS, VOL.XII.

(MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN JOHN CREICHTON), pages 57-59, Edit.Edinb.

1824.
Woodrow gives a different account of this exploit:--"In December this year, (1686), David Steil, in the parish of Lismahagow, was surprised in the fields by Lieutenant Creichton, and after his surrender of himself on quarters, he was in a very little time most barbarously shot, and lies buried in the churchyard there." Note 3 .-- IRON RASP.
The ingenious Mr.R.CHAMBERS'S Traditions of Edinburgh give the following account of the forgotten rasp or risp:-- "This house had a PIN or RISP at the door, instead of the more modern convenience--a knocker.