Note 52 — Front matter
Reading edition
On this occasion the author remembers to have seen in the Museum of the Antiquarian Society at Edinburgh a metal collar, constructed with a ring for receiving a padlock, with the following inscription:—
“Alexander Stewart found guilty of death, for theft at Perth, the 5th of December 1701, and gifted by the Justiciary as a perpetual servant to Sir John Erskine of Alva.” This collar was lately found in the grave of the deceased, in the burial ground at Alva.