Cranstoun

Cranstoun, Esq., colonial magistrate and planter_.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

[80] Lesser barons sign too, from Cranstoun and Cessford on the Borders, to Leslie of Buchan and John Innes of that Ilk in the North.

John Knox A. Taylor Innes

If Mary Blandy poisoned her father in order to be at liberty to marry her lover, Cranstoun, and to secure the fortune Cranstoun wanted with her, wherein does she shine above Mary Ansell, a murderess who not only poisoned her sister, but nearly murdered several of her sister's fellow-inmates of the asylum, and all for twenty odd pounds?

She Stands Accused 1935

It was unquestionably the sinister influence of Captain Cranstoun that later in the same century persuaded the respectable Miss Mary Blandy to the murder of her father.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

Some months later Knox found himself in trouble for having summoned the "brethren" from all parts of Scotland to Edinburgh to defend -- apparently by violence, if necessary -- one Cranstoun, who was to be tried for brawling in the chapel-royal.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

For the same reason we know not what became of the brethren Armstrong, Cranstoun, and George Rynd, summoned with the other malefactors for November 13.

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

He had, in his circular, averred that Cranstoun and Armstrong were summoned “that a door may be opened to execute cruelty upon a greater multitude.”

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

The godly brawled in the Chapel Royal, and two of them were arrested, two very dear brethren, named Cranstoun and Armstrong; they were to be tried on October 24.

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

He had shrewdly provided for their presence there by ordering a servant of his own to spread the false rumour of his departure, which Cranstoun innocently brought.

Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

A fight began; Cranstoun was wounded; he and his friends fled, leaving Gowrie, who had been run through the body by Ramsay.

Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878