“ That you William Earl of Kilmarnock, George Earl of Cromartie, and Arthur Lord Balmerino, return to the Prison of the Tower from whence you came from there you must be drawn to the Place of Execution; when you come there you must be hang'd by the Neck, but not till you be dead, for you must be cut down alive, then your Bowels must be taken out and burnt before your Eyes, then your Heads must be severd from your Bodies, and each of your Bodies divided into four Quarters, and those must be at the King's Disposal. And God Almighty be merciful to your Souls. ”

“ YOU stand Impeached by the Commons of Great Britain's Parliament assembled of High Treason, in traiterously imagining and compassing the Death of his most sacred Majesty, and in conspiring, for that End, to levy a bloody and destructive War against his Majesty, in order to depose and murder him: and in levying War accordingly, and proclaiming a Pretender to his Crown, to be King of these Realms. ”

“ They were again carried on Wednesday July 30th when the Court being set after the same manner as on Monday, and the three Peers there convicted of High Treason, being brought to the Bar to receive Sentence, The Lord High Steward, asked Lord Kilmarnock, if he had any thing to offer why Judgment of Death should not pass upon him? ”