It was in vain that they overturned beds, raised
floors, and broke open closets: Robert Wringhim Colwan was lost
once and for ever. His mother also was lost; and strong suspicions
attached to some of the farmers and house servants to whom she
was obnoxious, relating to her disappearance.
The Honourable Thomas Drummond became a distinguished
officer in the Austrian service, and died in the memorable year
for Scotland, 1715; and this is all with which history, justiciary
records, and tradition, furnish me relating to these matters.
I have now the pleasure of presenting my readers with an original
document of a most singular nature, and preserved for their
perusal in a still more singular manner. I offer no remarks on it,
and make as few additions to it, leaving everyone to judge for
himself. We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former
days, but nothing to this.
The Private Memoirs and
Confessions of a Sinner
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A SINNER
My life has been a life of trouble and turmoil of change and
vicissitude; of anger and exultation; of sorrow and of vengeance.
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