answer for some raid, act of treason, or murder, he
would perhaps appear at the bar in a suit of mail,
with as many armed men as he could muster;
and the influence of clanship rendered it dishonourable
not to shield and countenance a kins
VIEW FROM THE COWGATE OF THE BUILDINGS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PARLIAMENT CLOSE,
THE HIGHEST BUILDINGS IN EDINBURGH. (From a Print published in 1794.)
The forcible abduction of Sir Alexander Gibson,
Lord Durie, a noted lawyer (who drew up the
decisions of the Court from the 11th July, 1621.
to the 16th July, 164z)-that his voice and vote
might be absent from the decision of a case-is
hackbuttiers, with matches lighted, to enforce the '
authority of the Court; before which the former
came armed, while four thousand of his followers
of Dumbreck, and taken to Northumberland, where
he was kept for eight days in the Castle of Harbottle,
while his friends and family, unable to ac
