arid that Popish test they had been taking, and
GENERAL DALYELL.
the su;erstition of the time,? which led the people
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like Buchanan?s motto borrowed from the great
Emperor Trajan, Pro me, sin mereor, in me.?
Garnock having at a Committee of Council railed
at General Dalyell, calling him (With reference to
his service in Russia) a MuscoGia beast who used
to roast men, the general in a passion struck him
with the pommel of his shable on the face till the
blood sprung. Garnock gave in a protestation
signed with his own hand, calling them ?all bloody
murderers and papists, and charging all the Parliaof
which was accordingly done; and they died
obstinately without acknowledging any fault or
retracting their errors, reviling and condemning their
judges and all that differed from them. Their
bodies were stolen up by some of their party from
under the gibbet, and re-buried in the west kirkyard.?
To understand the courage of the man who in
such a place would defy the terrible old colonel ot
the Greys-whose ghost is at this day supposed to
PARLIAMENT HOUSE. (F70m fh Vim in Arnof?s ? H~SIOY of Edidurgh.?)
