I Send you the following good news , which I hope will put an end to our restless Phanaticks troubling our peace for the future . On Thursday the 22th of July 1680 , the General of the Kings Forces having notice that Mr. Cameron ( that Trumpet of Sedition and Rebellion ) who lately emitted that most Treasonable and horridly Rebellious Declaration against the Kings most Sacred Person and Government , was with a considerable party of Horse and Foot in Craford-John near Lanericke , he immediately commanded Sir Alexander Bruce of Earls-hall , Lieutenant to Captain Graham of Clever-house , to take his Troop , and a Troop of Dragoons , and go in search of the Rebels ; who having discovered Cameron and his Party , who consisted of one Hundred men , most Horse , he Attacqued them so briskly , that they were forced to Retreat , and betook them to a great Marsh or Bogg , where the Kings Horse could not come at them ; upon which , Sir Alexander Bruce commanded his Troop and Dragoons to dismount and quit their Horse , and with great Bravery charg'd the Rebels on foot , though with great disadvantage ; and after a sharp dispute for half an hour , Camerons Party was totally Defeated , himself and Fourteen of his men killed on the place ( though fighting the Battles of the Lord , as himself preacht some days before ) and six Prisoners taken , amongst which was that Notorious Murderer of the Archbishop of St. Andrews , Haxton of Rachilet , amongst the dead were two more of those Murderers . The Prisoners were brought hither this night , together with Camerons Head , which was carried upon a Poll through the streets by the common Hangman ; and so fare all , who opposes the Kings Person or Government , as now established by Law ,