[Footnote 4: Men convicted of certain crimes were also subject to the same form of execution adulterating and uttering base coins (Alan Napier, cutler in Glasgow, was strangled and burned at the stake in December 1602) sorcery, witchcraft, incantation, poisoning (Bailie Paterson suffered a like fate in December 1607). For bestiality John Jack was strangled on the Castle Hill (September 1605), and the innocent animal participator in his crime burned with him.] [Footnote 5: The Memorial is fully entitled: A Worthy and Notable Memorial of the Great Work of Mercy which God wrought in the Conversion of Jean Livingstone Lady Warristoun, who was apprehended for the Vile and Horrible Murder of her own Husband, John Kincaid, committed on Tuesday, July 1, 1600, for which she was execute on Saturday following; Containing an Account of her Obstinacy, Earnest Repentance, and her Turning to God; of the Odd Speeches she used during her Imprisonment; of her Great and Marvellous Constancy; and of her Behaviour and Manner of Death: Observed by One who was both a Seer and Hearer of what was spoken.] [Footnote 6: A 'row' is a wheel. This is one of the very few instances on which the terrible and vicious punishment of 'breaking on a wheel' was employed in Scotland. Jean Livingstone's accomplice was, according to Birrell's Diary, broken on a cartwheel, with the coulter of a plough in the hand of the hangman. The exotic method of execution suggests experiment by King Jamie.] [Footnote 7: Hutchinson, 1930.] [Footnote 8: Edinburgh, W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1930.] [Footnote 9: Antony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James (1651).] [Footnote 10: Fisher Unwin, 1925.] [Footnote 11: State Trials (Cobbett's edition).] [Footnote 12: Antony Weldon.] [Footnote 13: State Trials.] [Footnote 14: Probably started by Michael Sparke ("Scintilla") in Truth Brought to Light (1651).] [Footnote 15: Sabatini, The Minion.] [Footnote 16: According to one account. The Newgate Calendar (London 1773) gives Mrs Duncomb's age as eighty and that of the maid Betty as sixty.] [Footnote 17: One account says it was Sarah Malcolm who entered via the gutter and window. Borrow, however, in his Celebrated Trials, quotes Mrs Oliphant's evidence in court on this point.] [Footnote 18: Or Kerrol--the name varies in different accounts of the crime.] [Footnote 19: Peter Buck, a prisoner.] [Footnote 20: Born 1711, Durham, according to The Newgate Calendar.] [Footnote 21: This confession, however, varies in several particulars with that contained in A Paper delivered by Sarah Malcolm on the Night before her Execution to the Rev. Mr Piddington, and published by Him (London, 1733).] [Footnote 22: In Mr Piddington's paper the supposed appointment is for "3 or 4 o'clock at the Pewter Platter, Holbourn Bridge."] [Footnote 23: One Bridgewater.] [Footnote 24: On more than one hand the crime is ascribed to Sarah's desire to secure one of the Alexanders in marriage.]