This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...a Part of these Foot to take the Wind of the Enemy; but he that had the Command of that Party, fled too soon, and cried to the rest to flee; which some of them regrated to my self, that they ran not in among the rest of Foot and Horse, and fought it out to the last. Whoso desires to be furder informed, may see ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...a Part of these Foot to take the Wind of the Enemy; but he that had the Command of that Party, fled too soon, and cried to the rest to flee; which some of them regrated to my self, that they ran not in among the rest of Foot and Horse, and fought it out to the last. Whoso desires to be furder informed, may see a distinct Account in the Cloud of Witnesses, written by Rathillet, who had the chief Command of them, who was cruelly murdered and butchered at the Cross of Edinburgh, a few Days thereafter, in the same Month of July; the Hangman cutting off his Secrets, and throwing them at his Face, ripping up his Breast with a-Durk, and taking out his Heart alive, going round the Scaffold with it fluttering upon the Point of the Durk; the Hangman crying aloud, There is the Heart of a Traitor; and then threw it into the Fire, which they had in a Chimney upon the Scaffold, with his Secrets. His Hands and Head were struck off alive, and his Body divided into four Quarters, and placed upon publick Ports of the Nation. William Manuall died of his Wounds, entering the Tolbooth of Edinburgh; John Pollock was thereafter banished. Earlshall gave a Guinea to cut off Mr. Cameron's Head, and Hands, which he hagged off with a Durk, with John Fowler's Head in stead of Michael Cameron's. Mr. Cameron's Body, with the other Eight, were all buried upon the Spot, with a large Grave-stone upon four high Pillars, with his Name upon the Head of it, and the Form of an open Bible before him, and the Names of the other Eight round the Sides of it, which were, Michael Cameron, John Fowler, John Hamilton, John Gemmel, James Gray, Robert Dick, Robert Paterson, and Thomas Watson: And downward upon the same Stone was the following Inscription, all in very legible Letters; Halt, ...
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