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Broadside detailing the Lamentation of Nicol Mucshet of Boghall |
TranscriptionT H E SORROWFULL LAMENTATION of NICOL MUCSHET of BOGHALL. Who was execute in the Grass-Market of Edinburgh, on the 6th. of January, 1721. For AIL People how both far and near I lately coming to the Town,] Till Burnbank, he councell'd me To take away her Life. He said, He must have fiftie Pounds To carry on the Plot; Which I consented for to give : When I had murder'd my dear Wife, With Horror, Grief and Woe : My Soul with hellish Fear was fill'd, I knew not where to go. From Place to Place I could not stay, Nor Place of Safety found : Her Groans and Cries me thinks I hear Within my Ears to found. At Length I apprehended Was, And brought to Prison strong : Like a poor guilty murdering Wretch, left there to sigh and moan : Untill the noble Lords was pleas'd To call and panel me : I was found guilty, and condemned To hang upon a Tree. When I had left my Father's House ( Being Chirurgion ) came to Town : Burnbank, he often led me where Vile Sin did much abound. In wicked Harlots Company We stay'd both Night and Day; Which makes my murdering Heart to bleed, When I did court my loving Wife, She was both kind and free, And soon to me did condescend, That we should married be. Soon after that we married was, I did contrive her Fall : To murder my dear Bosom Friend : My loving Margaret Holl. In black debauched Ways I spent My Gold, whereof I'd Store : All for to murder my dear Wife ; Which Nature does abhorr. I bargain'd with three Ruffians rude, And gave them Gold all three, For to compleat that Bloody Fact : For which I am to die. Burnbank, James Mucshet and his Wife, Burnbank, he must have fiftie Pounds. And then James Mucshet arid his Wife James Mucshet and his Wicked Wife, A great large Hammer they prepar'd, To murder the young married, Wife, But finding all our hellish Plots We did contrive another Way, I sent a Cadie straight away I told her she must take a Walk, In the Dukes Walk, that fatal Place, Crying, My Love be mercifull To me, your tender Wife. Then I did drage her by the Hair, FINISH.
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Date of publication:
1721 shelfmark: Ry.III.c.36(054)
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