He met his fate with great firmness, and acknowledged the justice of his sentence.

But he repelled indignantly the observations of those who accused him of attacking an unarmed man.

"I give a life for the life I took," he said, "and what can I do more ?" [See Note 11 .-- Robert Donn's Poems.] ***** NOTES.
NOTES TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE.
Note 1 .-- HOLYROOD.
The reader may be gratified with Hector Boece's narrative of the original foundation of the famous abbey of Holyrood, or the Holy Cross, as given in Bellenden's translation:-- "Eftir death of Alexander the first, his brothir David come out of Ingland, and wes crownit at Scone, the yeir of God MCXXIV yeiris, and did gret justice, eftir his coronation, in all partis of his realme.

He had na weris during the time of King Hary; and wes so pietuous, that he sat daylie in judgement, to caus his pure commonis to have justice; and causit the actionis of his noblis to be decidit be his othir jugis.

He gart ilk juge redres the skaithis that come to the party be his wrang sentence; throw quhilk, he decorit his realm with mony nobil actis, and ejeckit the vennomus custome of riotus cheir, quhilk wes inducit afore be Inglismen, quhen thay com with Quene Margaret; for the samin wes noisum to al gud maneris, makand his pepil tender and effeminat.
"In the fourt yeir of his regne, this nobill prince come to visie the madin Castell of Edinburgh.