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24                   robbing, but in murdering men, ravishing women, and burning houses. But at length a proclamatiom coming out, promising a reward of a thousand merks to take him dead or alive, one Peg Cunningham, a strumpet, with whom he                   kept company, betrayed him. Finding himself surrounded with fifty men, he                   ran into her bed-chamber, and ripped up                    the harlot's belly; he then killed eight of his adversaries, before they could take him; but at last being overcome, he was taken and carried to Edinburgh Castle, where he was kept in irons three days without victuals or drink, and then hang- ed without any process, on a gibbet thir- ty feet high, and afterwards hung in                   in chains on another forty feet high, in                    the thirty-fourth year of his age.

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