Wyntown finished his Cronykil A. 1418. He, it is generally believed, was born little more than fifty years after the butchery of our magnanimous patriot. Sir D. Dalrymple could not, one would suppose, reasonably object to his testimony. Let us hear it.
A thousand thre hundyr and the fyft yhere
Eftyr the byrth of oure Lord dere,
Schyre Jhon of Menteth in tha days
Tuk in Glasgw Willame Walays,
And send hym in-til Ingland swne,
Thare wes he quartaryd and wndwne
Be dyspyte and hat inwy:
Thare he tholyd this martyry.
Cron. VIII. c. 20.