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6 Treason.

Francis Tennent, Merchant Burgess of Edinburgh, for writing a Seditious Pasquinade against the King, was executed in 1600.

Archibald Cornwall, town-officer in Edinburgh, for attempting to hang up the King's picture on the Gallows, was executed in 1600, and all his goods forfeited.

Mr. Andrew Chrichton, for Declining the Authority of the King and Privy Council, was banished for life in 1610.

John Fleming, for slanderous speeches against the King, was hanged at the cross of Edinburgh in 1615.

Thomas Rois, for writing and publishing at Oxford, a Pasquinade against the Scots, had his head struck off at the cross of Edinburgh, 1618.

James Skene, for Treasonable Opinions and Declarations, was executed at the cross of Edinburgh, in 1680, and beheaded.

Archibald Macdonald, son to Coll Macdonald of Barisdale, attainted of High Treason, was sentenced to be executed at the Grass-market of Edinburgh, in 1754, but he was afterwards reprieved, and received promotion in the army.

Leasing-Making

Mr. John Stewart, commissary of Dunkeld, for Leasing-Making against the Earl of Argyle, and fabricating and uttering lies and calumnies contrary to law, was beheaded at the Cross of Edinburgh in 1641.

Parricide.

John Dickson, for the murder of his father, was broke nponupon [sic] the wheel at the Cross of Edinburgh, in 1591.

Murder.

Thomas Armstrong, for the murder of Sir John Carmichael,