WOOD, James of Bonnytoun 1
- Born: About 1563
- Died: 27 April 1601, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1
Cause of his death was execution by beheading.1
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General Notes:
"These days (1590s) of religious conflict were full of suffering for the people, as the following tragic records in the family of Wood of Bonnington, relatives of George Barclay's second wife, serve to illustrate.
'James Wood, Fiar (son and heir) of Bonningtoune and William Wood of Latoun, accused of the breaking of the Place of Bonningtoune and taking away certain evidences pertening to Patrick Wood, elder of Bonningtoune, and to Lady Ufane (Euphemia) . . . '
'Patrick Wood, the father, did not pursue in the case. Treated one of treason and theft. Sentenced to execution. 1st April.'
Calderwood's Church History gives us further details.
'Upon Monday the 27th April (1601) the laird of Bonningtoune was beheaded at the Cross of Edinburgh, between six and seven in the morning, by a commission from the King directed to the sheriffs of Edinburgh . . . howbeit great intercession was made by Huntly, Errol, Hume and others. . . . He died an obstinate Papist, ever looking for pardon till the last gasp. He pretended that he suffered for the Roman Catholic Religion, but it was no point of his charge. Only the steeling of his father's evidences and writes was laid to his charge. Latoun gott remission.' "
from History of the Barclay Family 1
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