England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Argyll receives his sentence. Mercurius Publicus, No. 22, 1661, p. 344. Edinburgh.
Yesterday being Friday (May 24) the Parliament sat from eight of the clock in the morning till eight at night (twelve hours), where the marquis of Argyll being found guilty of high treason, there was great debate concerning the manner and time of his death. At last (which was about eight of the clock at night) he was brought from the Tolbooth to the House, and there received the sentence to be beheaded on Monday the 27th of this instant May, at two of the clock in the afternoon, his head to be set upon the west end of the Tolbooth, where the head of the glorious marquis of Montrose was set before, his posterity to be incapable of any public trust, all his lands and goods to be confiscate to his Majestys' use. | |