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and took down these Five Heads and that Hand; and Day being come, they went quickly up the _Pleasaunce_; and when they came to _Lauristoun_ Yards, upon the South-side of the City, they durst not venture, being so light, to go and bury their Heads with their Bodies, which they designed; it being present Death, if any of them had been found.

_Alexander Tweedie_, a Friend, being with them, who at that Time was Gardner in these Yards, concluded to bury them in his Yard, being in a Box (wrapped in Linen), where they lay 45 Years except 3 Days, being executed upon the 10th of _October_ 1681, and found the 7th Day of October 1726.

That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the Box was consumed.