A History of Peeblesshire, Volume 3

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James Walter Buchan
Jackson, Wylie and Company, 1927
 

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Page 526 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Page 222 - Bloody Dumbarton, Douglas, and Dundee, Moved by the devil and the Laird of Lee, Dragged these five men to death with gun and sword, Not suffering them to pray or read God's word : Owning the worke of God was all their crime— The Eighty-five was a saint-killing time.
Page 526 - The manner of the hunting is this : Five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Page 451 - Hope, up and down, above the earth to heaven, and below the earth to hell, as free to thee and thine as ever God gave it to me and mine, and that for a bow and a broad arrow, when I come to hunt in Yarrow ; and for the mair suith I byte the white wax with my tooth, before thir witnesses three, May, Maud and Marjorie.
Page 451 - Hunter of Powmood, the Hope, up and down, above the earth to heaven, and below the earth to hell, as free to thee and thine as ever God gave...
Page 488 - My residence among them has been for upwards of sixty years. I have known in the parish many respectable, benevolent, and kind-hearted parishioners. They are gone, and I have mourned their loss. Yet they have left behind them successors to whose integrity of life and manners I am happy to have the opportunity to bear testimony. There is, in one word, perhaps no parish where the moral character and conduct of the people are in all respects more uniformly unexceptionable.
Page 532 - ... society; but her tastes and virtues were entirely domestic, and made her the most delightful of household deities. Mild, affectionate, and cheerful, she attracted the love of all ages, and closed her many days without once knowing from personal consciousness what selfishness or want of charity meant. Mrs. Murray was stately, even to stiffness; -but friendly and high minded; calm and ladylike in her dignity. The ceremonious formality of her air and demeanour was made graceful and appropriate by...
Page 181 - True History of several honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent, gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers...
Page 116 - ... his second best horse — an owche with a ruby in the middle, a ring de columna Christi, and a cross made of the true cross — super quam pendebat Jesus — a relic of the hair of Mary Magdalene enclosed in silver, a circlet of gold, and a great countertilet of gold, a silver basin with a cover, weighing £15, 3s.
Page 181 - ... two crescents, of the field, for Scott. — Crest, a stag, trippant, ppr. attired and unguled or. Supporters, two females, richly attired in antique habits vert, their under robes az.

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