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23                     Glasgow, he bade him stand and delivers but after the discharge of some pistols, Gilder Roy made off, and they pursued him; finding they gained upon him, he                     turned short about, and shot Oliver's                      horse, which in falling broke his leg: he                      then shot one of his servants, and gave the other quarter; finding Oliver lame, he tied their legs under an ass's belly, and sent them to seek their fortune. Three of his companions being taken and sent to Glasgow Jail, were ordered to be hanged in chains: which Gilder Roy resenting, he vowed revenge one time or other, and a little time after meeting the Judge upon the road to A-                     berdeen, he stripped his coachman and two footmen, tied them neck and heels, and threw them into a pond: he then robbed the Judge, and carried him to                     the tree where his companions hang (which in Scotland is like a turnstie) hung him upon the fourth beam, saying, 'By my saul, mon, as this structure is                     erected to break people's craigs, and is                      not uniform without another, I must e'- en hang you upon the vacant heam.' At length his villanies grew so intol- erable, that he gloried not only in