xtravagancies pleased
York then in Edinburgh well, who dismissed them: after which, Gibb, the
three men and two women went west to the Frost moss betwixt Airth and
Stirling, where they burnt the holy bible (one night with a great light
around them) with the most fearful expressions. Gibb and some of them
were again apprehended and taken to the Canongate tolbooth, where they
took such fits of fasting for several days, that their voices changed
like to the howlings of dogs. Gibb became so possest of a roaring devil,
like another demoniack, that the sufferers could not get exercise made
in the room, which made two of them by turns lie upon him that time,
holding a napkin to his mouth. But George Jackson, martyr, coming there,
he asked, if that was his fashion? they said, it was. He said, he would
stay his roaring.--After threatening to no purpose, he caused them stop
in worship, till he beat him severely: after which, when they began, he
would run behind the door, and with the napkin his mouth, sit howling
like a dog. About 1684, he and one D. Jamie were banished to America,
where it was said, Jamie became an atheist, and Gibb came to be much
admired by the poor blind Indians for his familiar converse with the
devil and sacrificing to him (a thing then more common than now in these
parts). In consequence of such a wretched life, he died a dismal death
as far down as 1720.--_Wodrow, Walker's remarks_.

SIR ROBERT GRIERSON of Lag, was another prime hero for the promoting of
Satan's kingdom. I think that it was sometime after Bothwel that he was
made sheriff or sheriff depute of Dumfries. But to relate all the
sining, spoiling, oppression and murders committed by this worthy of
Satan, or champion of his kingdom, were beyond my intention. I must
leave it to his elegy, and the histories of that time, and only in a
cursory way observe, that besides 1200l. of fines exacted in Galloway
and Nithsdale shires, he was accessory to the murdering, under colour of
their iniquitous laws, Margaret McLauchlan aged sixty-three years, and
Margaret Wilton a young woman, whom they drowned at two stakes within
the sea-mark, at the water of Bladnock. For his cold blood murders, he
caused hang Gordon and Mr. Cubin on a growing tree near Irongray, and
left them hanging there 1686. The same year, he apprehended Mr. Bell of
Whiteside, D. Halliday of Mayfield, and three more, and, without giving
them leave to pray, shot them dead on the spot. Whiteside