His people, he said, would follow his example.

If any of them proved refractory, he would himself send the recusant to prison, or ship him off for Islanders.

His entreaties and Hill's letter overcame Sir Colin's scruples.

The oath was administered; and a certificate was transmitted to the Council at Edinburgh, setting forth the special circumstances which had induced the Sheriff to do what he knew not to be strictly regular.

[217] The news that Mac Ian had not submitted within the prescribed time was received with cruel joy by three powerful Scotchmen who were then at the English Court.