in Porteous had been dragged out of prison, and hanged on a
dyer's tree at two o'clock that morning.

This bold and lawless deed not only provoked the Queen, who was Regent
at the time, but gave some uneasiness to Government. It was represented
as a dangerous plot, and was ignorantly connected with a great meeting
of zealous Covenanters, of whom many still remained in Galloway and the
west, which had been held in summer, in Pentland Hills, to renew the
Covenant. But this was a mistake; for the murder of Porteous had been
planned and executed by a few of the relations or friends of those whom
he had slain; who, being of a rank superior to mere mob, had carried on
their design with so much secrecy, ability, and steadiness as made it be
ascribed to a still higher order, who were political enemies to
Government.

THE "CAMBUSLANG WARK" (1742).

+Source.+--_The Statistical Account of Scotland, drawn up from the
communications of the ministers of the different parishes_, vol. v.,
p. 266, by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. (Edinburgh: 1793.)

_Statistical Account of Cambuslang._

In the statistical account of this parish, it will doubtless be
expected, that some mention should be made of those remarkable religious
phenomena, which took place under Mr. M'Culloch's ministry, commonly
called "Cambuslang conversions." In treating of this subject, it will be
proper to give a brief historical view, first of the facts, and then of
the opinions entertained concerning them.

The kirk of Cambuslang being small and in bad repair, the minister, when
the weather was favourable, used to preach in a tent, erected close by a
rivulet, at the foot of a bank or brae near the kirk; which is still
called "the preaching or conversion brae."... Towards the end of
January, 1742, two persons, Ingram More, a shoemaker, and Robert Bowman,
a weaver, went through the parish, and got about 90 heads of families to
subscribe a petition, which was presented to the minister, desiring that
he would give them a weekly lecture.... On Monday, 15th February, and
the two following days, all the fellowship meetings in the parish
convened in one body in the minister's house, and were employed for many
hours in fervent prayer for the success of the gospel, and for an
outpouring of the Holy Spirit in their bounds, as in other places
abroad: The next day, being Thursday 18th February, nothing remarkable
happened during the lecture, except that the heare