Collected works > Edinburgh edition, 1894-98 - Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Volume 21, 1896 - Miscellanies, Volume IV

THE PENTLAND RISING
rain, and the darkness — onward to their defeat at
Pentland, and their scaffold at Edinburgh. It was
calculated that they lost one half of their army on
that disastrous night-march.
Next night they reached the village of Colinton,
four miles from Edinburgh, where they halted for
the last time. 1
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RULLION GREEN
' From Covenanters with uplifted hands,
From Remonstrators with associate bands,
Good Lord, deliver us ! '
Royalist Rhyme, Kibxcton, p. 127.
Late on the fourth night of November, exactly
twenty -four days before Rullion Green, Richard and
George Chaplain, merchants in Haddington, beheld
four men, clad like West-country Whigamores,
standing round some object on the ground. It
was at the two-mile cross, and within that distance
from their homes. At last, to their horror, they
discovered that the recumbent figure was a livid
corpse, swathed in a blood-stained winding-sheet. 2
Many thought that this apparition was a portent of
the deaths connected with the Pentland Rising.
On the morning of Wednesday, the 28th of
November 1666, they left Colinton and marched to
Rullion Green. There they arrived about sunset.
1 Turner, Wodrow, and Church History by James Kirkton, an outed
minister of the period. 2 Kirkton, p. 244.
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