The Miscellany of the Spalding Club, Issue 16Club, 1846 - Scotland |
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Page xxiii - ... usually lay on a grave-stone in the Church-yard. When mad people were brought to be dipped in the Saint's Pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the Chapel, bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head with great solemnity. It was the popular opinion that, if stolen, it would extricate itself out of the thief's hands, and return home, ringing all the way." It is added: "For some years past this...
Page 31 - Mary, &c., and brought back to London — declared lunatic, and by lord chancellor (whose crony is Mr. Wortley, Lady Mary's husband) delivered into the custody of Lady Mary, to the astonishment and offence even of all the English, (Sir Robert among the rest ;) and Hay pretended to be angry at it, yet refused to give me that relief by the king in council, which by law was undoubtedly competent...
Page xxii - In the mene time, the cais chakkit to suddanlie, but ony motion or werk of mortall creaturis. The preist astonist be this wounder went to the alter quhare the cais lay ; and quhen he fand the arme in the cais, he cryit, " Heir is ane gret mirakle " ; and incontinent he confessit, how he brocht the tume cais in the feild dredand that the rillik suld be tint in the feild, quhair sa gret jeoperdeis apperit. The King rejosing of this mirakill, past the remanent nicht in his prayaris with gud esperance...
Page xxiii - belonging to the Chapel of St. Fillan, that was in high reputation among the votaries of that saint in old times. It seems to be of some mixed metal. It is about a foot high, and of an oblong form. It usually lay on a gravestone in the churchyard. When mad people were brought to be dipped in the saint's pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the chapel, bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head...
Page 190 - Shirreff deput ordains the three young rogues now in prison that, this day, their ears be cropt, publictlie scourged through the toune of Banff, and burnt upon the cheek by the executioner, and banished the shyre for ever under the paine of death.
Page xix - Iruin of Drum, together with his just appeal from their tyrannical jurisdiction to Colonel Overton, the then only competent judge that was there ; and in the other a petition or grievance of the commons of Scotland, against the merciless and cruel task-masters that the Presbyterian zeal had set above them these many...
Page 186 - Fair was two year, whereof the pannalls were a pairt ; and that they are of malaefamae ; and that M'Phersone came in to his house, and spilt his ale, and stobbed the bed, seeking the deponent...
Page 5 - ... turn her down stairs. What effect her lies may have, where she is not so well known, and with those who, from opposition to what Lord Grange is about, may think their interest to encourage them, one cannot certainly know ; bat if proper measures be not fallen on against it, the creature may prove troublesome...
Page 213 - I troue ye are not sa unuyse, milorde, as to misinterprete my exterioure behavioure the last daye, seeing what ye did, ye did it not without my allowance, and that be your humilitie in the action itself, youre honouring of me serued to counteruaile the dishonouring of me be otheris before...
Page 239 - Felanum Pauli, Qui jurati magno Sacramento dicunt, Quod lator ipsius reliquie de Coygerach, qui Jore vulgariter dicitur habere debet annuatim et hereditarie a quolibet inhabitante parochiam de Glendochirde, habente vel laborante mercatam terre, sive libere sive pro firma, dimidiam bollam farine, et de quolibet in dicta parochia habente dimidiam mercatam terre ut predicitur, libere vel pro firma, modium farine et de quolibet in ista parochia habente quadraginta denariataa terre, dimidiam modii farine.