Traitors ’gainst God, and rebels ’gainst your king,

Until you feel the law’s severest rigour,

And be extinguished like the base Macgregor!’

Pennecuik’s Poems, MS., Adv. Lib.

[595]. Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior United Service Club.

[596]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, April 9, 1724.

[597]. Private Letters, &c., p. 37.

[598]. Analecta.

[599]. Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes, writing, in 1811, from personal recollection of the incidents.—Murray’s Lit. Hist. Galloway, p. 337.

[600]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 152, 157, 170.