Records of the Kirk of Scotland / containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Some had slings, and some had flails,

Knit with eel and oxen tails;

Some had speares, some had pikes,

Some had spades which delvit dykes;

Some had guns with roustie ratches,

Some had firie peats for matches;

Some had bows, but wanted arrows,

Some had pistols without marrows;

Some the coulter of a plough,

Some syths had, men and horse to hough;