and as things then went, his brother durst make no inquiry
after him. Near thirty years after, sometime after the revolution, he
was found in a clift of a moss, standing as if he had been put down
wanting the head. His brother came upon the first notice, and not
minding the situation, grasped him in his arms: upon which he crumbled
all down to dust. Which remains they gathered up and buried, upon which
a stone was erected with a motto, which is to be seen to this day.--But
let us hear what became of these murderers. One of the men, it is said,
died in great horror of conscience, and would have discovered the fact,
had not his brother and sister accomplices thrust a napkin into his
mouth, and so he expired. Some time after, the other brother being
abroad, was got lying dead upon the way in drink as was supposed. Last
of all, the woman hanged herself, and was buried in two or three laird's
grounds clandestinely, but still raised by orders of the proprietors;
till being wearied, the buriers threw her carcase into an old coal-pit,
and so the tragical story ended.--_A--d R--n_.

The Earl of Argyle, and others, made an attempt 1685, and though their
quarrel was not altogether stated according to the antient plea of the
Scottish covenanters; yet they came to rescue the nations from popery,
slavery and bloody persecution; but being broke, and several of his
officers and men taken, the gallant col. R----d Rumbol of Rye-house fled
westward, and would it is thought have extricated himself of the enemy,
had not a number of cruel country men risen, and (after a gallant
resistance) taken him, west from Lismahagow, in the head of Dalsyrf or
Glassford parish. Nay, it is said, they were so cruel that, while
defending himself against three in number, having turned his horse with
his back to a stone gavel, one of them came with a corn fork and put it
behind his ear, and turned off his head-piece; to whom he said, "O cruel
country man! that used me thus, when my face was to mine enemy."
However, he was by them taken to Edinburgh, and from the bar to the
scaffold, drawn up on a gibbet, then let down a little, and his heart
taken out by the executioner while alive, and held out on the point of a
bayonet, and then thrown into a fire; his body quartered, and placed on
the public places of the nation.--But let us hear what became of these
ungrateful wretches, who thus used and apprehended him who had ventured
his life to deliver them from cruel