Note 23 — The Last and Dying Speech of Robert Lyon, A.M. Presbyter at Perth.[19]
Reading edition
See fuller references to this incident of the war at f. 155. According, however, to detailed accounts from the other side, it was deliberately done, and caused the death of several of the poorer townspeople, who were allured into the church in the hope of getting stores the rebels could not carry away.—Scots' Magazine, 1746, p. 221.