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since the men were hanged thereon and that the same
was taken notice of as a significatione of gods displeasure
with the fact doe declare That upon a tyme being occa¬
sionally at Dunoone I saw the said tree standing uncutt
down without leaues and tending as it were to a decay
whillas the rest of the trees about bare leaues which to
my judgement and view were neire one grouth and age.
Further I declare that at another tyme after the said tree
was cutt I and Johne Glas late proveist of Rothesay
subscriver heirof being informed by comon report that
out of the root of the said tree there did rune blood to
the astonishment of beholders I and the said Johne haveing
the occasion to be there together did both of us see a
ridd matter inclineing a little to orience colour comeing
out of the heart of the root of the said tree and runeing
over which matter did congeale upon the syds therof and
ground. Lykwise I Adam Stewart burges of Rothesay
haveing the occasion of being upon a tyme at Dunoone
did ask at the people there quher the tree was quheron
the name of Lamount were hanged who told me it was
cutt downe And desyreing a sight of the root the church
beddell went alongs with me and shewed me the same
and out of the heart therof I saw a whyt matter lyk starch
come with a streame of redd matter inclyneing a litle to
ane orience colour in the midle therof which as it ishued
out of the root did congeale. In Testimony of the premises
we undersubscrivers have subscrived thir presents with
our hands at Rothesay the 10th day of August 1661.
M. Jo: Steuart minster at Rothesay.
J. Glas leat provist.
Adam Stewart.
At the time of the editor’s death, the two following
documents were in proof but without explanatory notes.
Gardyn Sasine
Vninersis ad quorum noticias presentes litere per-
uenerint Johannes de Thornton deputatus vicecomitis