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'Your Colonel, as you call him, may find it hard enough to save himself soon, the Duke answered with a sneer. 'How many men hath Monmouth with him? I smiled and shook my head. 'How shall we make this traitor find his tongue? he asked furiously, turning to his council. 'I should clap on the thumbikins, said one fierce-faced old soldier.
The house of Mrs Brownlee being, as I have intimated, nigh to the gate of the city, I saw from the window all that went into and came out therefrom; and the same afternoon I had visible evidence of the temper wherewith the Duke of York and his counsellors had been actuated that day at Holyrood, in consequence of the manner in which we had been delivered from prison; for Jack Windsor, the poor sentinel who was on guard when we escaped by the window, was brought out, supported by two of his companions, his feet having been so crushed in the torturous boots before the Council, during his examination anent us, that he could scarcely mark them to the ground; his hands were also bound in cloths, through which the blood was still oozing, from the pressure of those dreadful thumbikins of iron, that were so often used in those days to screw accusations out of honest men.
Ye sall hae an ample discharge and renunciation, and, though I should see you walking at the Cross of Edinburgh, or standing at the bar of the Court of Justiciary, no the very thumbikins themselves should bring to my memory that ever I saw you in arms yon day. He accompanied this promise by pulling so hard at Redgauntlet's cloak, that he at last turned round.
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