No one may be discovered to whom suspicion attaches, and where none such is found, the combat cannot take place.

It is a hard thing to wish that the innocent blood may not be avenged.

But if the perpetrator of this foul murder be hidden for the present, thou wilt be saved from the task of seeking that vengeance which Heaven doubtless will take at its own proper time." As they spoke thus, they arrived at the point of the High Street where the council house was situated.

As they reached the door, and made their way through the multitude who thronged the street, they found the avenues guarded by a select party of armed burghers, and about fifty spears belonging to the Knight of Kinfauns, who, with his allies the Grays, Blairs, Moncrieffs, and others, had brought to Perth a considerable body of horse, of which these were a part.

So soon as the glover and smith presented themselves, they were admitted to the chamber in which the magistrates were assembled..