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The date is 1715, and the writer, who only signs his initials, J.C., calls Wodrow "cousin." "I give you the account," he writes, "from the best information it's possible to be got, viz., from Robert Dun, in Woodheade of Carsphairn, and John Clark, then in that parish, now in Glenmont, in the parish of Strathone, anent the curate's death of Carsphairn, which they had from the actors' own mouths."
EDINBURGH, 28th November 1866. Kirkton, p. 247. Kirkton, p. 254. Ibid. p. 247. Ibid. pp. 247, 248. Ibid. p. 248. Kirkton, p. 249. "Naphtali," p. 205; Glasgow, 1721. Wodrow, p. 59. Kirkton, p. 246. Defoe's "History of the Church of Scotland." My companion enjoyed a cheap reputation for wit and insight. He was by habit and repute a satirist.
Fired by such Christian doctrines, on July 11, 1668, one Mitchell "a preacher of the Gospel, and a youth of much zeal and piety," says Wodrow the historian shot at Sharp, wounded the Bishop of Orkney in the street of Edinburgh, and escaped. This event delayed the project of conciliation, but in July 1669 the first Indulgence was promulgated.
Montrose having departed, Argyle's troops commenced to plunder the district for having submitted to his enemy, and these, being doubly offensive as Covenanters and Highlanders, are treated accordingly. But it is necessary to be impartial; and having bestowed so much on the Cavalier annalist, let us take a glimpse at the other side. Robert Wodrow.
He lays nets and sets traps only that He may get a chance of healing broken bones and setting the terrified free. No wonder that Wodrow calls her 'a much- exercised woman, with such ingates and outgates, and with such miracles of an interposing Providence filling her childhood, her youth, her married and her widowed life.
The inn was full, and they were obliged to make him up a bed in a house near-by that had been vacant for thirty years. "He walked some time in the room," says Wodrow, "and committed himself to God's protection, and went to bed. There were two candles left on the table, and these he put out. There was a large bright fire remaining.
He prayed for better luck, and 'no sooner was his prayer over, but his papers wer conveyed to him, flying in the air upon him when riding, which was very surprizing'. It was, indeed! Wodrow adds: 'Mind to write to the doctor about this'. This letter, if he ever wrote it, is not in the three portly volumes of his correspondence.
Thanksgivings had to be made for the victory, and the prisoners to be looked to. All these, according to Wodrow, were let go after being disarmed; but Hamilton himself tells a very different tale. His orders had been strict that there should be no quarter that day; but on his return from the pursuit he found that his orders had been disobeyed.
Macleay, p. 181. See Trials, &c. p. 76. Tour to the Hebrides. Macleay. This account of what is called in history the "Loch Lomond Expedition," is taken from the Wodrow MSS. in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh. Extracts from these MSS. have been printed by James Dennistoun, Esq., to whose work I am indebted for this narrative of Rob Roy's martial career. The Loch Lomond Expedition, p. 9.
Her fellow- sufferer from witchcraft, a young Sandilands, son of Lord Torphichen , became a naval officer of distinguished gallantry. Wodrow does not appear to have witnessed the execution at Paisley, one of the last in Scotland, but he had no doubt that witches should be put to death.
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