ich he had received from his and their master, against
whose lawful authority they had erected their standard: that to venture
his life for his sovereign was the least part of his merit: he had even
thrown down his arms in obedience to the sacred commands of the king;
and had resigned to them the victory, which, in defiance of all their
efforts, he was still enabled to dispute with them: that no blood had
ever been shed by him but in the field of battle; and many persons were
now in his eye, many now dared to pronounce sentence of death upon him,
whose life, forfeited by the laws of war, he had formerly saved from the
fury of the soldiers: that he was sorry to find no better testimony of
their return to allegiance than the murder of so faithful a subject, in
whose death the king's commission must be at once so highly injured and
affronted: that as to himself, they had in vain endeavored to vilify and
degrade him by all their studied indignities: the justice of his cause,
he knew, would ennoble any fortune; nor had he other affliction than
to see the authority of his prince, with which he was invested, treated
with so much ignominy: and that he now joyfully followed, by a like
unjust sentence, his late sovereign; and should be happy, if in his
future destiny he could follow him to the same blissful mansions, where
his piety and humane virtues had already, without doubt, secured him an
eternal recompense.

Montrose's sentence was next pronounced against him: "That he James
Graham," (for this was the only name they vouchsafed to give him,)
"should next day be carried to Edinburgh Cross, and there be hanged on
a gibbet, thirty feet high, for the space of three hours: then be taken
down, his head, he cut off upon a scaffold, and affixed to the prison:
his legs and arms be stuck up on the four chief towns of the kingdom:
his body be buried in the place appropriated for common malefactors;
except the church, upon his repentance, should take off his
excommunication."

The clergy, hoping that the terrors of immediate death had now given
them an advantage over their enemy, flocked about him, and insulted over
his fallen fortunes. They pronounced his damnation, and assured him that
the judgment which he was so soon to suffer, would prove but an easy
prologue to that which he must undergo hereafter. They next offered
to pray with him; but he was too well acquainted with those forms of
imprecation which they called prayers. "Lord,