Crime & punishment > Times of Claverhouse, or, Sketches of the persecution

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THE TIMES OF CLAVERHOUSE.
fixed on the Xetherbow,—one of his quarters, with
both his hands, to be affixed at St Andrews, another
quarter at Glasgow, a third at Leith, a fourth at
Burntisland; that none presume to be in mourning
for him, or any coffin brought; that no person be
suffered to be on the scaffold with him, save the two
bailies, the executioner, and his servant; that he
be allowed to pray to Almighty God, but not to
speak to the people.”
This sentence was executed to the very letter,
but through the grace of Him in whose cause he
suffered, he endured it in every particular with the
greatest fortitude and patience.
Similar to this was the treatment of Andrew
Guillan, who was accused by the council as having
been accessory to the death of the archbishop.
Andrew Guillan was a weaver, a pious man, liv¬
ing in the neighbourhood of Magus Moor, and was
called out on that occasion to hold the horses of
those by whom the deed was perpetrated. He was
apprehended simply for nonconformity, and after¬
wards artfully ensnared by the council into some¬
thing like a confession that he was present at the
primate’s death. His confession was produced as
sufficient evidence against him, and the following
sentence was pronounced :—“ That he should be
taken to the cross of Edinburgh, have both of his
hands cut off at the foot of the gallows, and then
be hanged; his head to be cut off and fixed at Cupar,
and his body to be hung in chains at Magus Moor.”
It has justly been observed, that “ the inhuman
treatment this martyr met with ought not to be for¬
gotten, as an instance of the hellish rage and fury of
these persecutors, and of the Lord’s rich grace, who