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      of the literal meaning of the words , came with two riders on each horse . They naet at Drumguadrum , a hill near the river Don , and in the unequal conflict which ensued , Brux fell ynih most of his friends . The estate , descended to an only daughter , Catherine , whose hand the widowed lady Brux , with a spirit well suited to the

      times , offered as a reward to one who would avenge her husband ' s death . Robert Forbes , a younger son of the chief of that family undertook the adventure ; and having challenged Muat to single combat , fought with and slew him at a place called Badewyon , near the head of Glen ^ ucket . A stone called Clachmuat ( i . e . Muat ' s

      stone ) stijl marks the place of combat . When the victor presented himself to claim the reward of his valour , and to deprecate any delay of his happip iness , Lad y Brux at once cut snort all ceremonial by declaring that Kate

      Cameron should go to Robert Forbes ' s be 4 while Muat ' s blood was yet recking upon his gully ( i . e . knife . ) The victor expressed no disapprobation of this arrangement , nor did , the maiden scruples of the bride impede her filial obedience .

      One more example ( and we could add an hundred ) of that insatiable thirst of revenge , which attended northern feuds . One of the Leslies , a strong and active young man , chanced to be in company with a number of the clan of Leith , the

      feudal enemies of his own . The place where they met being the hall of a powerful ai ) d neutral neighbour , Leslie was , like Shakspeare ' s Tybalt , in a similar situation , compelled to enduTe his presence . Still he held the opinion of the angry Capulet , even in the midst of the entertainment ,

      " Now by the stock and honour of his kin , To strike him dead to hold it not a sin . Accordingly , when they stood up to dance , when he found himself

      compelled to touch the hands and approach the persons of his detested enemies , the deadly feud broke forth . He unsheathed his dagger as he went down the dance—struck on the right fcnd left—laid some dead and many wounded on the floor—threw up the window , leaped into the castle court , and escaped in the general confusion .

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      Such ^ ere unsettled principles of the time , that the perfidy of the action was lost in its boldness ; it was applauded by his kinsmen who united themselves to defend what he had done ; and the fact is commemorated in the well known tune of triumph called Leslie among the Leitks .

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      No . CCLXV .

      Cardinal Tiirquemada . * The inquisition is nothing but the highest improvement of persecution which begins with tests and negative penalties but ends in fires and halters . Cardinal Turquemada , the

      first inquisitor-general in Spain , even in the infancy of the inquisition , brought an hundred thousand souls into it in the small space of fourteen years . Of these si $ : thousand were burnt alive . ** Trenchard and Gerdon ' s Tracts , 1 7 51 , ii- 200 .

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      No . CCLXVI .

      Jt aimer and Jrzigrim . " Palmers differ from Pilgrims , in that the Pilgrim has some home or dwelling-place , but the Palmer none . The Pilgrim travels to some certain

      designed place , or places , but the Palmer to all . The Pilgrim goes on his own charges , the Palmer professes wilful poverty , and lives on alms . The Pilgrim may give over his profession and return home , but the Palmer

      must be constant till he hath obtained the palm , that is victory over all his ghostl y enemies and life by death ; and thence is his name Palmer ; or else from a staff or bough of palm 9 which he always carries along with him . " History of Popery , 4 to . 1735 , i . 113 .

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      No . CCLXVII .

      A Dutch Bible imprisoned in the Inqui sition . " The brave old Marshal Scomberg , when he was last at Lisbon , told a friend of mine , with tears in his eyes , that having when be came ashore there , left a Dutch Bible , which had

      been his' grandfather ' s , upon the table of his cabin , it had been carried from the custom-house to the inquisition ; and that though he had sent to the chief inquisitor , and bad spoken to him himself for it , he had not been able to recover it . " Independent Whig ; 1720 . 7 th Ed . ii . 47 . '

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      Gleanings . 40 i

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/29/