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The defendant was Lindsay of the Byres, one of the chief of James III's supporters, he who had given the King that ominous gift of a fleet courser on the eve of the battle. When he appeared at the bar of the house so to speak before Parliament the following "dittay" or indictment was made against him:
It would appear that they took no great pains to be quiet in their progress, for on entering the room they found Kincaid awakened ``be thair dyn. I cannot do better at this point than leave description of the murder as it is given in the dittay against Weir.
The reason for Jean's hatred of her husband appears in the dittay against Robert Weir. ``Forasmuch, it runs, translated to modern terms, And there you have it. If the allegation against John Kincaid was true it does not seem that he valued his lovely wife as he ought to have done. The striking her ``divers times'' may have been an exaggeration. It probably was.
"Nae doubt, neighbour," he said, "it's a sair thing to hae to do wi' courts of law, unless it be to improve ane's knowledge and practique, by waiting on as a hearer; and touching this unhappy affair of Effie ye'll hae seen the dittay, doubtless?" He dragged out of his pocket a bundle of papers, and began to turn them over.
"So you think, my dearest father; but your slightest language has been espied, your best meaning phrases have been perverted, and you are in dittay as a gross railer against church and churchmen, and for holding discourse against them with loose and profligate persons, such as the deceased Oliver Proudfute, the smith Henry of the Wynd, and others, set forth as commending the doctrines of Father Clement, whom they charge with seven rank heresies, and seek for with staff and spear, to try him to the death.
The Assyse, all in ane voce, be the mouth of the said Thomas Galloway, chanceller, chosen be thame, ffand, pronouncet and declairit the said Robert Weir to be ffylit, culpable and convict of the crymes above specifiet, mentionat in the said Dittay; and that in respect of his Confessioun maid thairof, in Judgement. Sentence.
Weel, here's the dittay against puir Effie: 'Whereas it is humbly meant and shown to us, etc. "Read no farther!" said Deans, raising his head up; "I would rather ye thrust a sword into my heart than read a word farther!" "Weel, neighbour," said Saddletree, "I thought it wad hae comforted ye to ken the best and the warst o't. But the question is, what's to be dune?"
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