ruggit

Updated: May 2, 2025

Calling to his servants to guard him, he ran out of the church and sought refuge in the steeple, and it took the magistrates all their skill to persuade him to leave his hiding-place and accept their convoy to the palace 'he was halff against his will ruggit out, and halff borne and careit away' amid the derision of the onlookers. Adamson had appealed to the Assembly which was to meet in May.

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