The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . Dumfriesshire. The tree, which was of great girth, isbelieved to have been upwards of three hundred yearsold, and the jougs were completely imbedded in itstrunk, while the chain and staple hung down withinthe decayed and hollow core. The more usual formof the jougs is simj^ly a flat iron collar with dis-tended loops, through which a padlock was passedto secure the culprit in his ignominious with this may be mentioned a singular andprobably unique relic of old Scottish judicature, pre-served in the Museum of the Scottish Antiqua
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . Dumfriesshire. The tree, which was of great girth, isbelieved to have been upwards of three hundred yearsold, and the jougs were completely imbedded in itstrunk, while the chain and staple hung down withinthe decayed and hollow core. The more usual formof the jougs is simj^ly a flat iron collar with dis-tended loops, through which a padlock was passedto secure the culprit in his ignominious with this may be mentioned a singular andprobably unique relic of old Scottish judicature, pre-served in the Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries,to which it was presented in 1784. It consists ofthe brass collar of a Scottish slave of the eighteenthcentury. The collar is inscribed in accordance withthe terms of the following verdict, which shews that itOUgS --AppieglTuQ. the case was not singular ; and having been diedgedup in the Frith of Forth, it seems sufficiently probable that the un-happy victim may have chosen death in preference to the doom fromwhich there was no other At Perth, the fifth day of December 1701 years, the Commissioners of Justi-ciary of the south district, for securing the peace of the Highlands, consideringthat Donald Robertson, Alexander Steuart, .John Robertson, and Donald MDonald,prisoners within the Tolbooth of Perth, and indicted and tried at this court, areby verdict of the inquest returned, guilty of death ; and that the Commissionershave changed their punishment of death to perpetual servitude ; and that thesaid pannells are at the courts disposal. Therefore the said Commissioners havegiven and gifted, and hereby give and gift, the said Alexander Steuart, one of thesaid prisoners, as ane perpetual servant to Sir John Areskine of Alva, recommend-ing him to cause provide an collar of brass, iron, or copper, which by his sentenceor doom, (whereof an extract is delivered to the magistrates of the said burgh ofPerth,) is to be upon his neck with this inscription: Alexr. Steuart,
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