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 was executed at the cross of Edinburgh, in 1601. He was afterwards hung in chains.

Alister Macgregor of Glenstra, Laird of Macgregor, for slaughtering the Laird of Luss’s friends, was hanged and quartered at the Cross of Edinburgh, in 1604.

Patrick Roy Macgregor, for murder, was hanged at Edinburgh in 1667, and his body hung in chains.

Agnes Johnston, for the murder of a child, was executee at the Grass-market of Edinburgh in 1676.

Andrew Rutherfoord of Townhead, for the murder of James Douglass, brother to Sir Wm. Douglass of Cavers, was beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh in 1674.

George Clerk and John Ramsay, for the murder of John Anderson, merchant in Edinburgh, were hanged there in 1676.

James Gray, Dyer in Dalkeith, for the murder of Archibald Murray, g ntlemangentleman [sic] of the King’s Troop of Guards, was beheaded at the Grass-market in 1678.

John Chislie of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lockhart, Lord President of the Court of Session, had his right hand cut off, and then hanged on a gibbet, in 1689. The pistol was hung about his neck with which he committed the murder.

George Cumming, writer in Edinburgh, was found guilty of manslaughter, and executed in Edinburgh, in 1695.

James Stewart, in Aucharn, for the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, was executed at the ferry of Ballachelish, in 1752, and his body hung in chains.

David Mowbray, and one Keith, a fencing master, for raising a tumult in Edinburgh, and rescuing a baker whom the hangman was whipping through the Canongate, were executed in Edinburgh, in 1686.

Captain Thos. Green, commander of the Worcester, a