Volume 1

Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers.

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1858-1861
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Credit: Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parish^ and sae to be imprisonit and scourgit fra parish to parish^ while [till] they be utterly renderit fm-th of this realm.’— P. C. R. Little more than three years onward (August 27, 1576), it was declared that this act had ^ wantit execution’—a very common misfortune to acts of council in those days; and it was found that ‘ the said idle vagabonds has continuit in their wicked and mischievous manner of living, committing murders, theft, and abusing the simple and ignorant people with sorcery and divination. Men in authority were now enjoined to stricter courses with these wanderers, on pain of being held as their accomplices. An English force having come to help the Regent in winning mat 2. Edinburgh Castle, the operations of the siege commenced by the fixing up of twenty ‘ great pieces ’ at four several places around the ancient fortress, ‘ They shot so hard continually, that the second day they had beat down wholly three towers. The Laird of Grange .... would not give over, but shot at them continually, both with great shot and small; so that there was a very great slaughter amongst the English cannoneers, sundry of them having their legs and arms torn from their bodies in the air hy the violence of the great shot. At last, the Regent continuing his siege so close and hard—the captain being forced by the defendants for lack of victuals—rendered the same, after a gi-eat many of them were slain [Alay 29].’—Bir. Mr Robert Hamilton, minister of St Andrews, was in Edin- burgh at this time, along with the servant who had written down John Knox’s prediction regarding the fate of Kirkaldy (see under 1571). According to James Melville, 'they gaed up to the Castle- hill, and saw the forewark of the castle all demolished, and running like a sandy brae; they saw the men of weir all set in order. The captain, with a little staff in his hand, taken down over the walls upon the ladders, and Mr Robert, troubled with the thrang of the people, says : “ Go, what have I ado here ? ” In going away, the servant remembers his master of the sermon, and the words, wha was compelled to glorify God, and say he was a true prophet.’ 'William Kirkaldy of Grange, knight, sometime captain of the avo.a. Castle of Edinbui’gh, and James Mosman, goldsmith, were hai’litin twa carts backward, frae the Abbey to the Cross of Edinburgh, where they, with Mr James [Kirkaldy] and James Cookie, were
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