This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...records that he died twenty years after this last exploit, at the age of fifty-two, and pithily says: --"Kynd comarads, heir Coupar's corps is layd, Walteir by name, a tailzour of his trayde; Bothe kynd, and trezu, aud stut, and honest hartit, Condol with me that he so sone depairtit; For I avow he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...records that he died twenty years after this last exploit, at the age of fifty-two, and pithily says: --"Kynd comarads, heir Coupar's corps is layd, Walteir by name, a tailzour of his trayde; Bothe kynd, and trezu, aud stut, and honest hartit, Condol with me that he so sone depairtit; For I avow he never weyld a sheir, Haid beter pairts nor he that's burid heir." A few years after Coupar's escapade, another offender also contemptuously departed furth from justice, but byanother way. "William Bowman, mariner, being chairgit be the officer to come to the tolbuith, he wilfully refusit; and theirefter Bailie Ferguson having past to his house and requirit him to go to the Provost and Bailies, he past within his chamber, closit the same, and went out at the thak and sklates of the house, and therefra ran to the shore, enterit within ane ship callit the Hoipweill, and keepit it masterfully; and quhen he wes followed be the Bailie, assistit with the constables and uther neighbours, he past furth of the ship, took the ship's boat, and past therein to the sea in grite contempt." 1608 David Man, merchant, by the probation of famous witnesses, was Oct. 25. proven to have given to Bailie Goldman "diverse irreverent speeches, saying that he would nocht acknowledge him to be the Bailie of his quarter; and being wardit therefor, he then brak the ward without ony licence or warrant of ane magistrate; and siclyke, having afterwards been commandit be Bailie Clayhills to enter his person again in ward, he disobeyit the Bailie's command." For this contempt and disobedience, the Council imprisoned him in the tolbooth during their will. On the same day, Thomas Lindsay, goldsmith, was charged with "mispersoning Bailie Clayhills...
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