. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. crosskac;lel abuev XUIi CIIAITEK IIOUSK. CKOSSk\( Ul I Al 1 I \THE ENIKANCK GATEWAY, l-ROJI THE CUAITEK HOUSE ANTIQUITIES OK SCOTLAND Crosraguel. He appears to have found great difficulty in making the granteffective against the Earl of Cassilis.* The criminal genealogical records of theperiod devolve a horrible instance of rapacious cruelty perpetrated by an Earl ofCassilis, who was popularly called the King of Carrick, on Allan Stewart, com-mendator of Crossraguel, in 15 70. He was determined to compel the commendatorto execute
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. crosskac;lel abuev XUIi CIIAITEK IIOUSK. CKOSSk\( Ul I Al 1 I \THE ENIKANCK GATEWAY, l-ROJI THE CUAITEK HOUSE ANTIQUITIES OK SCOTLAND Crosraguel. He appears to have found great difficulty in making the granteffective against the Earl of Cassilis.* The criminal genealogical records of theperiod devolve a horrible instance of rapacious cruelty perpetrated by an Earl ofCassilis, who was popularly called the King of Carrick, on Allan Stewart, com-mendator of Crossraguel, in 15 70. He was determined to compel the commendatorto execute in his favour certain deeds over the property of the kidnapped him, unable to succeed by imprisonment, he one day discussedthe matter with the commendator in a room where a large fire was seen blazing,for the purpose of preparing a feast of roast meat, as the earl facetiously called theexecution of his threat. The poor commendator, seeing at once the horrors await-ing him, prayed hard for release, but his persecutor was merciless ; and, being, asthe annalist describes it, skinned,
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