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                           19 had come to subdue and oppress his native country ; and far from repenting of what he had done he was only sorry that he had not put to death many more of them.”

Nothwithstanding that this defence was a good one, the English judges condemned him to be executed as a traitor. He was ac- cordingly dragged upon a sledge to the place of execution, where his head was struck off, and his body divided into four quarters, which, in conformity to the cruel practice of the time, were exposed upon pikes of iron upon London Bridge.,-—his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle,—his left arm was sent to Berwick,—his right foot and limb to Perth-; and his left quarter to Aberdeen,—and termed the limbs of a traitor? He was excut- ed on the 23d of August, 1305.