A. I never joined with any such.
Q. Where was you at the time of Pentland?
A. In Edinburgh.
Q. When did you know of their rising in arms?
A. When the rest of the city knew of it.
Q. Where did you meet with James Wallace?
A. I knew him not at that time.
Q. Did you go out of town with captain Arnot?
A. No.
The other questions were anent his going abroad, &c. He perceived that they intended to catch him in a contradiction, or to find any who would witness against him.—At the beginning of the torture he said, "My lords, not knowing that I shall escape this torture with my life, therefore, I beseech you to remember what Solomon saith, He who sheweth no mercy, shall have judgment without mercy, &c.—And now, my lords, I do freely, from my heart, forgive you, who are sitting judges upon the bench, and the men who are appointed to be about this horrible piece of work, and also those who are vitiating their eyes in beholding the same; and I intreat that God may never lay it to the charge of any of you, as I beg God may be pleased for Christ's sake to blot out my sins and iniquities, and never to lay them to my charge here nor hereafter."