Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CCxlii JAMES, EAUL OF ANXANDALE AND HAETFELL, 1G53-1G72.
among other steps adopted to suppress it, they wrote on 16th Xovember
1G66, letters to Aunandale and other noblemen who were concerned in the
places of the rising, to order the king's forces to march towards these places,
and asking them to coucur with tlic forces when they arrived.^ As showing
the anxiety connected witli the rising, three days afterwards, on lOtli
November, the council wrote again to Annandale and other noblemen,
empowering them to convocate their followers, and with them to preserve
the peace of the country and to attack the rebels.-
After the battle of Eullion Green on 2Sth Xovember, the council on the
following day sent expresses to the Earls of Annandale, Nithsdale and others
in that country, to keep the forces togetlicr which they had raised, in order
to apprehend the rebels on their return.^
Eight days after the battle, on the f)th December 1GC6, King Charles
granted a commission of justiciary under his signet at Edinburgh for the
special purpose of trying and executing justice on those who were engaged in
that rebellion. The Duke of Hamilton, the Jlarcpiis of Montrose, the Earl
of Argyll, and several other carls, including tlie Earl of Annandale, con-
stituted the commission, three of them to form a quorum. The first court
of the commissioners was held at Glasgow on ITtli December by four of the
commissioners, the Earls of Linlilligow and Wigtoun, Lord ]Montgomery
and Mungo Murray. Four of the rebels were indicted and tried. The court
found them guilty of treason and sentenced them to be hanged at Glasgow on
Wednesday, 19th December. The sentence was carried into effect.^
After the proceedings against the unfortunate insurgents at Pentland, and
many of tlicm had been executed under the commission of justiciary of 5th
December 1066, milder measures occurred to the more humane riiembers of
the privy council, including the learned and accomplished Sir Eobcrt
Murray, who was lord justice clerk. He was commissioned by King Charles
> Wodiow, Tol. i. p. '2i-:.
* Wodrow, vol. i. p. iHU, aud Ai'pcudix, p. 100.
^ /'-/'/. 3 /{„-rf, p. 254