George M'Cartny, and was president
of the Assize who condemned those ten of the Pentland sufferers that
suffered at Ayr and Irvine 1666; after which he harrassed the poor
persecuted people in Galloway, particularly on the water of Orr. After
Neilson of Corsack's execution, he came with a party upon his house and
riffled it; carrying away every thing portable, he destroyed the rest,
and turned out the whole family with the nurse and sucking child to the
open fields (lady Corsack being then at Edinburgh). But, with all this
ill gotten gain, then and afterwards he was but ill served; for, after
the Revolution, he was reduced to seek his betters, and amongst other
places came to the house of Corsack, and cringed for an alms from the
same lady Corsack before her window, which she generously gave him; but
at the same time reminded him of his former wicked life, particularly,
his persecuting the people of God. He went off, but with small
amendment; and some time after ended his wretched life.--_Samson's
riddle, A--d--k--n_, &c.

---- NISBET, (commonly called lieutenant Nisbet) a man of no high
extraction, but born of creditable parents in the parish of Loudon;
being inlisted a soldier, obtained for his good services in the
persecuting work some time after Bothwel, a lieutenant's post, which he
managed with such fury against the poor persecuted wanderers for the
cause of Christ, as made him break over all limits or bonds of religion,
reason or natural affection or relation; so that he apprehended James
Nisbet, a cousin-german of his own, while attending a friend's burial
who was executed at Glasgow; where the said James was also executed; and
while ranging up and down the country like a merciless tyger, he
apprehended another of his cousins, John Nisbet of Hardhill, and with
him George Woodburn, John Fergushill and Peter Gemmel (in the parish of
Fenwick); which three last he took out, and immediately without sentence
shot dead; and then carried Hardhill, after he had given him seven
wounds, to Edinburgh, where he was executed. He also apprehended
severals in the said parish that were banished; and upon their return at
the Revolution, he was amongst the first they saw at Irvine after they
landed. At first they were minded to have justice executed upon him; but
on a second thought referred him to the righteous judgment of God. After
the Revolution, he soon came to beg his bread (as old soldiers oftimes
do) and it was said, that