...The death of this nobleman was universally lamented ; and the clamours of the people so VOL. n. B 17 great, especially against the chancellor, upon whom...personages had been warded for their connection with Bothwcll, is an easy solution of the difficulty. 18 fell afterwards away to Bothwell, and joyned with...

...and Sheriff of Murray were brought to the Church of Leith in two coffins, and there lay divers months unburied, their friends refusing to commit their bodies to the earth till the slaughter was punished."i In David Moysie's Memoirs this is mentioned with greater precision, when he says, " Upon...

..."The corps of the Earl and the Sheriffe of Murray were brought to the church of Leith in two cofflnes, and there lay diverse moneths unburied, their friends...bodies to the earth till the slaughter was punished. " — Spottiswoode. BONNIE JOHN CAMPBELL. MURDERED FEBRUARY 1591. IK credit can be given to " The History...

...Sheriff were brought to the Church of Leith in two coffins, APPENDIX. 387 and there lay divers months unburied, their friends refusing to commit their bodies to the earth till the slaughter was punished.' David Moysie says the corpses were brought over the water to Leith by Lady Doune, the Earl's mother,...

...committ their bodies to the earth till the slaughter was punished ; nor was any so much interessed in that fact as the Lord Ochiltry, who had perswaded the Earl of Murray to come south, whereupon he fell afterwards away to Bothuell, and joined with him, for revenge of Murrayes murther. Huntly in April...