Claverhouse's men took him, and he lay for some
months in the Edinburgh tolbooth, and then by Council and justiciary
was condemned to be hanged. And so he was hanged at the cross of
Edinburgh. And what he said before he died was '_With what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you_' ... My grandmother, for hearing
preaching in the fields and for sheltering the distressed for the
Covenant's sake, was sent with other godly women to the Bass Rock.
There in cold and heat, in hunger and sickness, she bided for two
years. When at last they let her body forth her mind was found to be
broken.... My father and mother married and lived, until Glenfernie
came to him, at Windygarth. I was born at Windygarth. My grandmother
lived with us. I was twelve years old before she went from earth. It
was all her pleasure to be forth from the house--any house, for she
called them all prisons. So I was sent to ramble with her. Out of
doors, with the harmless things of earth, she was wise enough--and
good company. The old of this countryside remember us, going here and
there.... I used to think, 'If I had been living then, I would not
have let those things happen!' And I dreamed of taking coin, and of
dropping the same coin into the hands that gave.... And so, the other
having served your turn, Touris, you will change back to the true
Kirk?"
Mr.
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