a Preliminary examination by the Privy Council he and a dozen other Scotsmen were sent to Edinburgh for trial and ware imprisoned in the Tolbooth in solitary confinement for ten months. The authorities raised prosecutions against 23 conspirators, all but three being fugitives, and in order to get evidence they decided to apply torture to some of the prisoners. Munro was threatened with the "boots" (an instrument of torture involving the crushing of limbs) and confessed evidence which was used at several of the trials. His weakness "did so discompose and confound him, to discover others, that he desperately offered money to the keeper of the Tolbuith's man to run him throw (sic) with his sword." He was then pardoned and liberated, but remained in obscurity till the Revolution of 1688. In 1690 he entered the Scottish Parliament as the shire commissioner for Stirlingshire and at first joined the "Club", the organized opposition to the Court party. He afterwards supported the Government and in 1695 was knighted and granted a pension of £150 per annum as a recompense for his sufferings. According to the Clan Munro Association historian, R.W Munro, the report of the official inquest in the Massacre of Glencoe, which most subsequent accounts of it have been based on, may have been written by Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts who the commissioners, appointed by William III of England, chose as their clerk. He died on 4 January 1704, leaving three daughters and two sons. Family Alexander's wife was Lillias, daughter of John Eastoun of Couston in Linlithgowshire. Their sons were: George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie, a successful Scottish soldier. John Munro, 2nd of Bearcrofts, a surgeon and professor at the University of Edinburgh. (They also had three daughters). See also Clan Munro Munro (disambiguation) References 17th-century births 1704 deaths Scottish soldiers Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts Place of birth unknown Place of death unknown Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland Politics of Stirling (council area) Scottish prisoners and detainees Scottish knights Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1689–1702