[273] It was also along this road that the anxious citizens, watching
on the Castle esplanade, saw the royalist cavalry retiring at full
gallop from Coltbridge on the approach of Prince Charlie and his
Highland army.
[274] In Mr Lockhart’s clever book, _Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk_,
the murderer is called Gabriel. A work called _Celebrated Trials_ (6
vols. 1825) gives an erroneous account of the murder, styling the
murderer as the Rev. Thomas Hunter.
[275] See _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, i. 407.