200 Craigmillar and its Environs. 



Rising, but the day before the battle of RulUon Green 

 he was in such a state of weakness and prostration 

 that he was obhged to leave his comrades at Colinton. 

 On his way to Liberton he was apprehended in 

 passing over the Braid Hills, and committed prisoner 

 to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. After being subjected 

 to that terrible instrument of torture, the "boot," 

 in which his leg was shattered with eleven strokes of 

 the mallet without extorting the sort of confession that 

 was wanted, he was condemned for high treason, and 

 hanged at the cross of Edinburgh. On the scaffold 

 he spoke with such impressive eloquence to the vast 

 assemblage, and with so rapturous a confidence of 

 his future happiness, that there was scarcely a dry 

 eye among the numerous spectators. At subsequent 

 executions of the ringleaders amongst the Cove- 

 nanters, the authorities caused drums to be beaten 

 and trumpets to be sounded in order to drown the 

 last words of these resolute men. 



WooDHousELEE. — Near to Rullion Green is the 

 site of Old Woodhouselee, which in 1570 belonged 

 to Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, in right of his wife. 



