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up and down the church till the end of the sermon. When sermon was done, Chiealy went out before the
President, and gained his closs head, where he saluted him going down, as the President did Chiealy. My
Lord Csstlehill and Daniel Lockhart convoyed [the President] a peace down the closs, and talked a while with
him, after which they both departed. The President called back the last, and whilst Daniel waa returning,
Dalrey approached, to whom Daniel said, ‘ I thought you had been att London,’ without receiving any other
answer than that He was there now.’ Daniel offered to take him by the hand, but the other shufaed by him,
and comeing close to the President‘s back discharged his pistol, before that any suspected his design: The
bullet going in beneath the right shoulder, and out att the left pap, was battered on the wall.
“ The President immediately turned about, looked the murderer grievously in the face ; and then finding himself
beginning to faile, he leant to the wall, and said, ‘Hold me, Daniel ; hold me,’ These were his last worda
He was carried immediately to his own house, and waa almost dead before he could reach it Daniel and the
President’s Chaplain apprehended, in the meantime, Ualrey, who own’d the fact, and never offered to fie. He
was carried to the guard, kept in the Weigh-house, and afkrwarda taken to prison%
“ The President’s Ladie, hearing the shot and a cry in the closs, got in her smock out of her bed, and took
the dead bodie in her arms, at which sight swounding she wa9 carried to her chamber. The corps were laid in
the same room where he used to consult, The first of Aprile a Meeting of the States was call’d, att nine of the
clock, anent the Murtherer. The Provost of Edinburgh and two Bailliffs, with the Earle of EmPs deputys,
were admitted to concurr if they pleased. Two of each bench of the meeting, viz the Earle of Eglinton and
Glencarne, Sir Patrick Ogilvy of Pqne and Blacbarroure, Barons, Sir John Dalrymple and Mr William
Hamilton, Burgesses, were impower’d to sit on the Assii, and to cause torture Dalrey, to know if any other waa
accessarie to the murther. The President’s friends, out of tenderness to the Ladie and childring, did not insiit
upon the crime of assassination of a Judge and Privy Counsellor. Calderwood, designed Writter in Edinburgh,
upon suspicion was imprisoned. He waa waiting at the closs head when the shot was given, and fled thereafter.
He had been likewise seen with Dalrey at the Abbey the Saturday before, following the President aa he came
from Duke Hamilton’s lodgeing.
‘‘ The Court sat down as the States rose. The Murtherer was brought in, who did not deny the fact, and
confesst that none was accessarie. He got the boots and the thumekins Dureing the torture he confessed
nothing. Cardross and Polwart were against the tortureing. Calderwood was brought in also, but confessed
nothing. Sir George was buried in the Gray Friers Church, upon the south side. He was a great favourer of
the King’s, no friend to the Romau Catholic& and an open enimie of Nelford’s, whom he regarded as the
author of all the troubles hrought upon the King and Country.”
The Lady Grange, the romantic story of whose captivity in the Island of St Kilda has since furnished
materials both for the novelist and the historian, was a daughter of the assassin, Chiedey of Dahy, and is said
to have owed her strange fate to the fierce and Findictive spirit she inherited from her father. Lord Grange
entered deeply into the politics of the time, and his wife is believed to have obtained possession of 8ome of the
secrets of hia party, the disclosure of which would have involved the leaders in great danger, if not in ruin.
This accounts for the ready co-operation he found from men otherwise unlikely to have shared in such an abduction.
Lady Grange is said to have accelerated the fate which her husband meditated for her, by reminding
him, in a fit of passion, “ that she was Chieslie’s daughter,” a threat that implied he might experience a fate
simiir to that of the Lord President if he provoked her anger, A curious account of the abduction and confinement
of Lady Grange in the Western Isles, will be found in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1817.
In the Archaeologia Scotica (voL iv. p. 18), Father Hay’s narrative is accompanied with the following
letter from Sir Walter Scott, addressed to E. W. A. Drummond Hay, Esq., Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries,
in reference to the finding of the assassin’s bones at Dalry. The reader will see that it greatly diEera
from the account we have given (page 179.) The latter is derived from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Eaq.,
a better authority, we have no hesitation in saying, on questions of fact and antkpzrian rureurch, than
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Sir Walter Scott, who, moreover, evidently writes with an imperfect recollection of what he had heard ; whereas
Mr Sharpe’s own grandfather was proprietor of Dalry at the period, and he has himself often heard the facts
related by his father, who was present when the discovery was made. The reader, however, has now both
versions of the story, and may adopt which of them pleases him best :-
a DEAR SIR,-~ return the curious and particular account of Sir George Lockhart’s murder by Chiesley of
Dalry. It is worthy of antiquarian annotation, that Chiesley was appointed to be gibbetted, not far from his
own house, somewhere about Drumsheugh. As he waB a man of family, the gibbet was privately cut down, and
the body carried off. A good many yean since, some alterations were in the course of being made in the house
of Dab, when, on enlarging a closet or cellar in the lower story, a discovery was made of a skeleton, and some
fragments of iron, which (were) generally supposed to be the bones of the murderer Chiesley. His friends had
probably concealed them there when they were taken down from the gibbet, and no opportunity had occurred
for removing them before their existence was forgotten. I was told of the circumstance by Mr James Walker,
then my brother in office, and proprietor of Dalry, I do not, however, recollect the exact circumstance, but I
dare say Francis Walker Drummond can supply my deficiency of memory.-Yonrs truly, WALTERS COTT.
Shandwick Place, 15th Januky 1829. To E. W. A. Drummond Hay, Esq.”
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XII. SIR DAVID LINDUY.
IN the quotation from Sir David Lindsay’s Complaynt (page 39), the text of Chalmers has been followed.
Slight as the change is that its punctuation requires to render it correct, the alteration in its sense is very con-
- siderable. It should be read thus :-
‘‘ The first sillabia that thow did mute
Was pa, dn, Lyn.
Then playit I twentie springis perqueir,
Quhilk was greit plesour for to heir.”
Upon the lute
‘‘ Any old woman in Scotland,” says Sir Walter Scott, in his notes to Marmion, will bear witnesfl that pa,
da, Lyn, are the first efforts of a child to say where’s David findsay?” A still better reading of it has been
suggested, and the true one, as we think, viz., Play Davy Lindsay. The poems of Lindsay have now ceased to
occupy the place they so long held in the library of the Scottish cottage, yet some trace of their former study
is still preserved in the common rustic expression of scepticism-It ’8 no between th brocls o’ Davy Limdsay!-
implying that not even Lindsay, whom nothing escapes, has noticed the thing in queation.
XIII. UMFRAVILLE’S CROSS.
A FEW additional notices of the Scottish Umfrafilles may perhaps help to suggest a clue ta the date of erection
of the ancient cross that formerly stood on the boundary of the Borough Muir, at St Leonard’s Loan (page 293.)
In the year 1304, Edward, Longshanks, granted an indemnity to the Scots under certain conditions, one of
which imposed a graduated scale of fines on the Scottish clergy and nobles, proportioned in ita aeve~tyto the
opposit.ion h.e ha d encountered from them, and the tardiness of their submission to his power. The heaviest of
