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So Macaulay tells the story, following for once the "Cloud of Witnesses" rather than Wodrow. According to the latter, Claverhouse found Hislop wandering about the fields, and carried him before Westerhall, "without any design, as appeared, to murder him."
Charles Kingsley, for example, wrote in "Alton Locke" of "the Scottish Saint Margaret whom Claverhouse and his men bound to a stake." Wodrow, iv. 244. Claverhouse to Queensberry, May 3rd, 1685. Napier, i. 141; and iii. 457.
'He was then prelatic, says Wodrow in his Analecta, 'and strong for the ceremonies. But as time went on, young Guthrie's whole views of duty and of promotion became totally changed, till, instead of a bishop's throne, he ended his days on the hangman's ladder.
But Defoe's qualifications for a historian of those times are, to say the least, uncertain. He mentions Cameron and Cargill as alive and busy in 1684, four years after one had died fighting at Aird's Moss, and the other on the scaffold at Edinburgh. Wodrow, iv. 197; Napier, i. 89. I have called this the most authentic version because it professes to have come from the murderers themselves.
They robbed Master Chalmers, the Episcopalian minister of Dumfries, of his horse, drank the King's health at the market cross, and then left Dumfries. Wodrow, vol. ii. p. 17. Sir J. Turner's "Memoirs," pp. 148-50. "Stay, passenger, take notice what thou reads, At Edinburgh lie our bodies, here our heads; Our right hands stood at Lanark, these we want, Because with them we signed the Covenant."
One of them, however, is so singular, that I cannot forbear relating it. * Wodrow vol. ii. appendix, 94. Wodrow, vol. ii. passim. * Wodrow p. 434. Wodrow, p. 505. They all refused, and were condemned to a capital punishment by drowning. One of them was an elderly woman: the other two were young; one eighteen years of age, the other only thirteen.
The brother, however, of this more favoured individual was not so fortunate, as may be gathered from Wodrow, and the "Cloud of Witnesses;" for he was executed ere the day of deliverance, at the Gallowlee, and his most pathetic and eloquent address is still extant.
Claverhouse was present neither at the trial nor the execution. He had, indeed, no more to do with the deaths of these two women than Cameron, who had been five years in his grave, or Wodrow, who was but five years old. It is true that one of his family was present, but this was his brother, David Graham, Deputy Sheriff of Galloway, and but lately made one of the Lords Justices of Wigtownshire.
"The new reign was not to remain long undisturbed; before the end of April there was the apprehension of a great civil war, and in May the news came that it had begun both in England and Scotland." Wodrow, iv. 148-9. He prints the declaration in full from a copy in Renwick's own handwriting. Brown. In later editions Elizabeth Menzies becomes Jean Brown.
Of these manuscript volumes there are two copies in the Wodrow MSS., Advocates’ Library, but neither of them appears to be Gillespie’s own hand-writing; the quarto certainly is not, and the octavo seems to be an accurate copy of two of the original volumes.
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