n the American plantations;
but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, if such things
interest just men among the shades, can boast he has a monument on earth
as well as Julius Caesar or the Pharaohs. Where they may all lie, I know
not. Far-scattered bones, indeed! But if the reader cares to learn how
some of them--or some part of some of them--found their way at length to
such honourable sepulture, let him listen to the words of one who was
their comrade in life and their apologist when they were dead. Some of
the insane controversial matter I omit, as well as some digressions,
but leave the rest in Patrick Walker's language and orthography:--

"The never to be forgotten Mr. _James Renwlck_ told me, that he was
Witness to their Public Murder at the _Gallowlee_, between _Leith_
and _Edinburgh_, when he saw the Hangman hash and hagg off all their
Five heads, with _Patrick Foreman's_ Right Hand: Their Bodies were
all buried at the Gallows Foot: their Heads, with _Patrick's_ Hand,
were brought and put upon five Pikes on the _Pleasaunce-Port_....
Mr. _Renwick_ told me that it was the first public Action that his
Hand was at, to conveen Friends, and lift their murthered Bodies,
and carried them to the West Churchyard of _Edinburgh_,"--not
Greyfriars, this time,--"and buried them there. Then they came about
the City ... and took down these Five Heads and that Hand; and Day
being come, they went quickly up the _Pleasaunce_; and when they
came to _Lauristoun_ Yards, upon the South-side of the City, they
durst not venture, being so light, to go and bury their Heads with
their Bodies, which they designed; it being present death, if any of
them had been found. _Alexander Tweedie_, a Friend, being with them,
who at that Time was Gardner in these Yards, concluded to bury them
in his Yard, being in a Box (wrapped in Linen), where they lay 45
Years except 3 Days, being executed upon the 10th of _October_ 1681,
and found the 7th Day of _October_ 1726. That Piece of Ground lay
for some years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them,
which affrighted him; the Box was consumed. Mr. _Schaw_, the Owner
of these Yards, caused lift them, and lay them upon a Table in his
Summer-house: Mr. _Schaw's_ mother was so kind, as to cut out a
Linen-cloth and cover them. They lay Twelve Days there, where all