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 Crighton, Lauder, and many more,

Who sought the Hill-men’s overthrow.

Halton, who did himself perjure.

To bring Mitchell to an ill hour;

Lawrie of Maxwelton also,

Unto these wild men was a foe;

And so was Craig of Stewarton,

Baillie, and these, gave Smith his doom,

And all the Bishops in the land,

Were ready still at my command,

My statutes for to execute,

On all whom I do persecute.

Dumbarton, Bruce, and ''Rob. Dalziel'',

And other worthies I could tell,

As Ezekiel Montgomery,

The worst cruel monster that could be;

And that vile wretch, call’d Sheriff Hunie,

That was right worthy of his room:

And old tree-legged Duncan Grant,

Who of his wickedness did vaunt.

Eglinton, Ironcaple, and Lord Ross,

Who did the Whigs murder and toss;

From sixty to the revolution,

Imbru’d their hands in persecution.

They murder’d and did stigmatize,

Such as my service did not please;

They banish’d them to foreign nations,

And sold them to the new plantations.

With rigour great they took their gear,

'Cause they my livery would not wear.

None forwarder among them all,

Than noble Grierson of Lag-hall;

Whose worthy actions makes him fit.

In the great chair now to sit,