It is just typical that bearers of bad tidings were executed in olden days. The Seer met this fate when he was asked by Isabella, wife of the third Earl of Seaforth, for news of her husband who was away in Paris at that time. He assured her that he was well. 

The lady tried bribes and threats to induce him to give a true account of her husband, as he had seen him, to tell who was with him, and all about him.

The seer proceeded to tell her of her husband's philandering with a Frenchwoman, which was not what she wanted to hear.

Isabella was so outraged and hurt that she took her spite out on the seer and denounced him as a vile slanderer of her husband's character and sentenced him to death.

He was taken out for immediate execution which was by being thrown alive into a barrel of boiling tar and burned at Chanonry Point, Fortrose where there is now a memorial stone and plaque.




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