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The said Justice-depute, be the mouth of James Sterling, dempster of the Court, decernit and ordainit the said Robert Weir to be tane to ane skaffold to be fixt beside the Croce of Edinburgh, and there to be brokin upoune ane Row, quhill he be deid; and to ly thairat, during the space of xxiiij houris.
And, therefore, I do not think it strange that those battles were more firm and furious than those that are fought on horseback: "Caedebant pariter, pariterque ruebant Victores victique; neque his fuga nota, neque illis." Their battles were much better disputed. Nowadays there are nothing but routs: "Primus clamor atque impetus rem decernit."
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