parts. In 1697 twenty poor wretches were condemned for the
imaginary crime o f witchcraft, and five aftually fuffered at tit
(lake on June 10th in the fame year*. One young and handfome.
to whom is attributed the heroic reply mentioned in my former
volume -j". So deep was the folly of excels in belief rooted here,
that full credit feems to have been given to an account that one
of the condemned (a wizzard) was ftrangled in his chair by the
devil, I fuppofe leaft he ihould make a confefiion to the detriment
o f the, fervice.
The veftiges o f the Roman, camp at Paijley, are at prefent almot
annihilated. O f the outworks mentioned by Camden, there art
no traces o f any excepting one, for at a place called Cajile Had,
are (till left a few marks, but nothing entire. There had been»
military road leading to the camp, which is fuppofed to have beea
the vanduara of Ptolemy.
Continue my journey towards Renfrew. On the road feel
mount or tumulus, with a fofs round the. bafe, and a fmgle to
eredted on the top. Near this place was defeated and flain Sum
led Thane of Argyle, who in 11:59, with a great army of banditti
collefted from Ireland J and other parts, landed in the bay of St,
• Narrative o f the, diabolical praftices o f above twenty wizzards, &c. print'd
1697.
t The girl at Warbois made a reply equally great. Her perfecutors had only
one circumftance againft her: that o f concealing herfelf, for when the mob cm
to feize her mother, ihe hid herfelf in the coal-hole. On her tryal the by-ftande»
pitying her youth and innocence, advifed, her to plead her belly. She rel
with the utmoil fpirit, that notvsithjianding they had power to put her to death
never Jhould make herdejtroy her reputation hyfo infamous a plea,
t Major, 133,
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taurence, and led them in rebellion againft Malcolm IV. That
this mount was raifed in memory o f fo fignal an event is not im-
Hrobable, efpecially as we are told by a moft refpedhable writer *,
that his troops retired' unmolefted; therefore might have leifure
to fling up this ufual tribute to the honor of their leader.
B Reach Renfrew the county town, now an inconfiderable place.
1 Sihrt the lid. had a palace here, which ftood on a piece of ground
cjf about half an acre, ftill called the Caftle h ill; but nothing rem
a in s butthe ditch which furrounded it. This monarch firft made
Renfrew an independent fheriffdom, for before it was joined to
that, of Lanerk.
B Pafs by the tower o f Inch, or ifle fo called, from its once having
been, as tradition (ays, furrounded by-the Clyde. Mr. Craw-
fet'd, in his hiftory of the county informs us, it had been the property
of the barons Rofs o f Haulkhead..
B All the land in thefe parts .excellent, but moft ill and flovenly
arefled. Crofs the Clyde, pafs by Par tic, a village where the
Bakers of Glafgow. have very confiderable mills on the water of
Kelvin, and a great tradh of land,, at prefent valued at ten- thou-
/ fendi pounds originally granted to rhem. by the regent Murray,
|i reward for their fervices in fupplying his army with bread previous
to the decifive battle of Langjide. Return again to Glafgow,
■ Set out in company with. Mr. Gdlorne, for foch-lomond. Pafs
B>t a few miles.over a pleafant country,, hilly, well cultivated, and
■iften prettily planted, and thick, fet with neat, villas. Go over
the fite of the Roman wall, near Bemulie, where, had been a con-
' Rev. Dr. John Macpherjon»
fiderable
R e n f r ew .
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