My Lord, I confess by that torture you may cause me to blaspheme God, as Saul did compel the Saints; you may by that torture cause me to speak amiss of your Lordship, to call myself a thief, a murderer or warlock and wotnot, and then pannel me upon it. But if you shall my Lord’s put me to it, I here protest before God and your Lordships, that nothing exorted from me by torture shall be made use against me in judgemental, nor have any force against me in law, or any person whatsoever. But to be plain with your Lordships, I am so much a Christian, that whatsoever your Lordships may legally prove against me, if it be a truth, I shall not deny it. But my Lord on the contrary I am so much a man, yea, and a Scotsman, that I never held myself obliged either by the Law of God or nature, or by the law of the nation, to become my own accuser.
—James Mithcell when under threat of the torture of the “The Boot.“

My Lord, I confess by that torture you may cause me to blaspheme God, as Saul did compel the Saints; you may by that torture cause me to speak amiss of your Lordship, to call myself a thief, a murderer or warlock and wotnot, and then pannel me upon it. But if you shall my Lord’s put me to it, I here protest before God and your Lordships, that nothing exorted from me by torture shall be made use against me in judgemental, nor have any force against me in law, or any person whatsoever. But to be plain with your Lordships, I am so much a Christian, that whatsoever your Lordships may legally prove against me, if it be a truth, I shall not deny it. But my Lord on the contrary I am so much a man, yea, and a Scotsman, that I never held myself obliged either by the Law of God or nature, or by the law of the nation, to become my own accuser.
—James Mithcell when under threat of the torture of the “The Boot.“