Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eople hadbeen collected, principally in the vicinity of Bath-gate, by the cavalry, then emjiloyed in dragoon-ing, or riding down the country, and after beingdriven like herds of cattle, to the number of 1,200,tied two and two, to the cajutal, they were pennedup in the Greyfiiars Ciuirchyard, among the gravesand gloomy okl tombs of all kinds, and there theywere watched and guarded day and night, openly insight of the citizens. Since Heselrig destroyed the Scottish prisonersafter Dunbar (for which he was arraigned by theH
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . eople hadbeen collected, principally in the vicinity of Bath-gate, by the cavalry, then emjiloyed in dragoon-ing, or riding down the country, and after beingdriven like herds of cattle, to the number of 1,200,tied two and two, to the cajutal, they were pennedup in the Greyfiiars Ciuirchyard, among the gravesand gloomy okl tombs of all kinds, and there theywere watched and guarded day and night, openly insight of the citizens. Since Heselrig destroyed the Scottish prisonersafter Dunbar (for which he was arraigned by theHouse of Commons) no such piteous sight hadbeen witnessed on British ground. They were ofboth sexes and of all ages, and there they lay fivelong months, 1,200 souls, exposed to the sun byday and the dew by night—the rain, the wind, andthe storm—with no other roof than the changingsky, and no other bed than rank grass thatgrew in its hideous luxuriance from the graves be-neath them. All were brutally treated by their 376 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Greyfrlars HERIOrS HOSPITAL. I, The Hospital, 1779 {AJter an Eng^ravtii§^ in Arttots * History 0/Edinburgh ) ; 2, Porters Lodge; 3, Dining Hall; 4, Quadrangle, looking north ; 5, Quadrangle, looking south. Gre>*friir^ Church.] PERSECUTION OF THE COVENANTERS. 377 guards, and a few, driven almost mad, achieved theirescape, but many died. All this, at the hands of theirown countr\men, these poor people had to endure—the stubborn Scottish peasant, with his pride andrectitude of heart, his tender, it might be weak andailing wife, with his infants and his aged parents. to administer to the wants of the prisoners therewas one lady who was wont to come attended bya young daughter possessed of considerable personalattractions. Periodically they came to the iron gatewith food and raiment, collected among the charit-able, and between the young lady and one of the
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