. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. etiously 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, by the removal of his clothes, and well bastedwith grease, he was set before the fire. Before he yielded he was so severelyscorched—or, as the annalist terms it, roasted—that his hand scarcely had muscularpower enough to sign the documents. And thus the earl obtained, in the indignantwords of the describer of the scene, a
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. etiously 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, by the removal of his clothes, and well bastedwith grease, he was set before the fire. Before he yielded he was so severelyscorched—or, as the annalist terms it, roasted—that his hand scarcely had muscularpower enough to sign the documents. And thus the earl obtained, in the indignantwords of the describer of the scene, a five yeare tack and a 19 year tack, and acharter of feu of all the lands of Croceragual, with all the clauses necessary for theearle to hunte him to hell ! for gif adulterie, sacriledge, oppressione, barbarouscrueltie, and thift heaped upon thift, deserve hell, the great King of Carrick canno more escape hell for ever, nor the imprudent abbot escaped the tyre for aseasonne. t Pitcairns Historical Account of the Pamily of Kennedy, p. 93. Ubid. p. 114 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Dairsie Church
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