Scotland
- For those convicted on or after 1 May 1707, see Great Britain and United Kingdom.
- Robert Baillie, for involvement in the Rye House Plot
- William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, for leading the Raid of Ruthven on King James VI
- Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
- Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, for usurping King James VI on the Orkney Islands
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Famous quotes containing the word scotland:
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)
“Four and twenty at her back
And they were a’ clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.
On we lap and awa we rade
Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
—Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28)
“The “second sight” possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)