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For the rest, it will be enough to say that the story first found its way into print in 1687, and that it was more circumstantially repeated in 1711, when the records of the Kirk Session of the parish of Penninghame were published by direction of the General Assembly.
All these things made no considerable stir in the little village of Newton Douglas, which was beginning to extend itself under the heights of Penninghame.
It is difficult to believe that a story so well and widely recorded, and so firmly implanted in the hearts of so many generations of men, can have absolutely no foundation in fact. It is indeed possible that time has embellished the bald brutality of the deed, though the graphic narrative of Macaulay is practically that which Wodrow took from the records of Penninghame.
She was immediately thrust back into the water, and in a few minutes more her heroic soul was with her God and Saviour. We have no space for controversy, but it is right to add that if it be a myth, the records of the Kirk-sessions of Kirkinner and Penninghame which exist, and in which it is recorded must also be mythical.
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