‘The never to be forgotten Mr. _James Renwick_ told me, that he was Witness to their Public Murder at the _Gallowlee_, between _Leith_ and _Edinburgh_, when he saw the Hangman hash and hagg off all their Five Heads, with _Patrick Foreman’s_ Right Hand: Their Bodies were all buried at the Gallows Foot; their Heads, with _Patrick’s_ Hand, were brought and put upon five Pikes on the _Pleasaunce-Port_. . . . Mr. _Renwick_ told me also that it was the first public Action that his Hand was at, to conveen Friends, and lift their murthered Bodies, and carried them to the West Churchyard of _Edinburgh_,’—not Greyfriars, this time,—‘and buried them there. Then they came about the City . . . . and took down these Five Heads and that Hand; and Day being come, they went quickly up the _Pleasaunce_; and when they came to _Lauristoun_ Yards, upon the South-side of the City, they durst not venture, being so light, to go and bury their Heads with their Bodies, which they designed; it being present Death, if any of them had been found. _Alexander Tweedie_, a Friend, being with them, who at that Time was Gardner in these Yards, concluded to bury them in his Yard, being in a Box (wrapped in Linen), where they lay 45 Years except 3 Days, being executed upon the 10th of _October_ 1681, and found the 7th Day of October 1726. That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the Box was consumed. Mr. _Schaw_, the Owner of these Yards, caused lift them, and lay them upon a Table in his Summer-house: Mr. _Schaw’s_ mother was so kind, as to cut out a Linen-cloth, and cover them. They lay Twelve Days there, where all had Access to see them. _Alexander Tweedie_, the foresaid Gardner, said, when dying, There was a Treasure hid in his Yard, but neither Gold nor Silver. _Daniel Tweedie_, his Son, came along with me to that Yard, and told me that his Father planted a white Rose-bush above them, and farther down the Yard a red Rose-bush, which were more fruitful than any other Bush in the Yard. . . . Many came’—to see the heads—‘out of Curiosity; yet I rejoiced to see so many concerned grave Men and Women favouring the Dust of our Martyrs. There were Six of us concluded to bury them upon the Nineteenth Day of _October_ 1726, and every One of us to acquaint Friends of the Day and Hour, being _Wednesday_, the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their resting Graves. We caused make a compleat Coffin for them in Black, with four Yards of fine Linen, the way that our Martyrs Corps were managed. . . . Accordingly we kept the aforesaid Day and Hour, and doubled the Linen, and laid the Half of it below them, their nether jaws being parted from their Heads;