He was out wi' the Hielandmen in Montrose's time; and again he was in the hills wi' Glencairn in the saxteen hundred and fifty-twa; and sae when King Charles the Second came in, wha was in sic favour as the Laird of Redgauntlet?
He was knighted at Lonon court, wi' the king's ain sword; and being a redhot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken) to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country.

Wild wark they made of it; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other.

Redgauntlet was ay for the strong hand; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tam Dalyell's.

Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.

And troth when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a Hielandman wi' a roebuck--it was just, 'Will ye tak the test ?'--if not, 'Make ready--present--fire!'-- and there lay the recusant.
Far and wide was Sir Robert hated and feared.