The principal contriver of the scheme, called here Sim o' the Maynes, fled into England from the resentment of his chief; but experienced there the common fate of a traitor, being himself executed at Carlisle, about two months after Hobbie's death.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
She fancied that Sir George, Sir George whom she loved, was the contriver of this villainy.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
However, I declared that Miss Howe was a subtle contriver of mischief; one who had always been my enemy: her motives I knew not: but despised the man whom her mother was desirous she should have, one Hickman; although I did not directly aver that she would rather have had me; yet they all immediately imagined that that was the ground of her animosity to me, and of her envy to my beloved: and it was pity, they said, that so fine a young lady did not see through such a pretended friend.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson