Henry Morton condemned by Colonel Graham
Claverhouse to be executed. by Siegfried Detler Bendixon
During the Government suppression of the
Covenanters. Henry Morton of Milnwood a moderate Presbyterian was arrested
by troops of Colonel Claverhouse for harboring John Burley of Balfour a
covenanter and a friend of Morton's father. Unknown to Morton, burley had
participated in the murder of Archbishop Sharpe of St Andrews (who was
hated by the covenanters for deserting their cause and joining
against them). Morton is sentenced to death by is saved through the
intervention of Lord Beldenden from a book by Walter Scott
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