Robert Birrel, Edinburgh burgess, notin in his diarey the executioun ae clan chief Alasdair MacGregor ae Glenstrae oan 20th January 1604:
“…he wes hangit at the crosse, and ij of hes freindes and name, upone ane gallows: himself being chieff, he wes hangit his awin hight above the rest of hes freindis.”
Source: Fragments of Scotish History, ed. John Graham Dalyell (Edinburgh, 1798), 60–1 (separately paginated).
Written as part of #Scotstober2022 on Twitter (23rd October — “gallus”)
