But this representation is the very reverse of the truth.
Numerous instruments had doubtless been employed in the work of death; but they had all received their impulse, directly or indirectly, from a single mind.

High above the crowd of offenders towered one offender, preeminent in parts, knowledge, rank and power.

In return for many victims immolated by treachery, only one victim was demanded by justice; and it must ever be considered as a blemish on the fame of William that the demand was refused.
On the seventeenth of July the session of the Parliament of Scotland closed.

The Estates had liberally voted such a supply as the poor country which they represented could afford.

They had indeed been put into high good humour by the notion that they had found out a way of speedily making that poor country rich.