'From Covenanters with uplifted hands, From Remonstrators with associate bands, Good Lord, deliver us!' _Royalist Rhyme_, KIRKTON, p.

127.
Late on the fourth night of November, exactly twenty-four days before Rullion Green, Richard and George Chaplain, merchants in Haddington, beheld four men, clad like West-country Whigamores, standing round some object on the ground.

It was at the two-mile cross, and within that distance from their homes.

At last, to their horror, they discovered that the recumbent figure was a livid corpse, swathed in a blood-stained winding-sheet.

{99} Many thought that this apparition was a portent of the deaths connected with the Pentland Rising.
On the morning of Wednesday, the 28th of November 1666, they left Colinton and marched to Rullion Green.