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A dying man when he was put in the Tolbooth, he yet had to undergo many exhausting examinations and a farcical trial, with "Bluidy Mackenzie" for chief inquisitor, and on Christmas Eve, 1684, he gallantly and cheerfully met a martyr's death at the Market Cross of Edinburgh.
'At the outgoing of the church, about thirty or forty of our honestest women in one voice before the bishop and magistrates did fall a railing, cursing, and scolding, with clamours on Mr. William Annan. Some two of the meanest were taken to the Tolbooth, or city prison, where Montrose in after years was himself to lie. Mr.
Now, however, having accomplished all the preliminary parts of their design, they raised a tremendous shout of "Porteous! Porteous! To the Tolbooth! To the Tolbooth!" They proceeded with the same prudence when the object seemed to be nearly in their grasp, as they had done hitherto when success was more dubious.
Owen, I canna see how you, an active man that understands business, can redd out the business ye're come down about, and clear us a' aff as I have gritt hope ye will if ye're keepit lying here in the tolbooth of Glasgow.
Queen Caroline, God bless her! is a woman at least I judge sae, and it's nae treason to speak my mind sae far and ye maybe ken as weel as I do, for ye hae a housekeeper, though ye arena a married man, that women are wilfu', and downa bide a slight. And it will sound ill in her ears, that sic a confused mistake suld come to pass, and naebody sae muckle as to be put into the Tolbooth about it."
All were out and around the tolbooth waiting for the upshot of the choosing the delegate. Those that saw me in the mean time, would have thought I had gone demented. I ramped and I stamped; I banned and I bellowed like desperation. My companions, no a bit better, flew fluttering to the windows, like wild birds to the wires of their cage.
It was spoken not in the common English way, but in the broad manner of my own folk.... I saw in my mind's eye a wet moorland, and heard a voice inveighing against the wickedness of those in high places.... I smelled the foul air of the Canongate Tolbooth, and heard this same man testifying against the vanity of the world.... "Cawterpillars!"
On reaching Edinburgh, I was placed in the tolbooth, where many other sufferers for the cause of the Gospel were then lying. It was a foul and an unwholesome den: many of the guiltless inmates were so wasted that they were rather like frightful effigies of death than living men. Their skins were yellow, and their hands were roped and warpt with veins and sinews in a manner very awful to see.
It is too romantic, and it lingers in the memory. I have not read him myself though I hear he is clever in a way. I would not say that I object to Mr. Scott, but I do not recommend him to my young customers." So off Gilian would go with his book under his arm to the Ramparts. The Ramparts were about the old Tolbooth and kept crime within and the sea without.
"She has her leg ower the harrows now," said Cuddie, "stop her wha can I see her cocked up behint a dragoon on her way to the Tolbooth I find my ain legs tied below a horse's belly Ay she has just mustered up her sermon, and there wi' that grane out it comes, and we are a'ruined, horse and foot!"
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