Crawford
Priory
A wise Fifeshire judge had two
teenage boys brought before him, charged with trespassing
within the enclosures of Crawford priory. The prosecutor was
the factor of the eccentric Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford.
The judge having heard the case
against the delinquents, which he didn't consider as serious
an offence as the factor did, and having also ascertained
that one of the youths was a drummer from Edinburgh Castle,
and that the other belonged to a guard-ship at Leith, gave
each a shilling, and told them to go home; one to the castle,
and the other to the ship.
‘‘And
now,” said the judge addressing the factor, ‘‘you
can tell Lady Mary that I have sent one of the prisoners aboard
a man-of—war, and the other one to be a soldier. Surely
that will be punishment to please her.‘‘
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