Miscellany of the Maitland Club: Consisting of Original Papers and Other Documents Illustrative of the History and Literature of Scotland, Issue 57Maitland Club, 1843 - Scotland |
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... wald be a worke too troublesome , and thairfoir we haif thought good on some to execute Justice and the rest to tak to mercy , and as we will not haif oure Justice satisfeit with the meanest and basest personis so we wald haif speciall ...
... wald be a worke too troublesome , and thairfoir we haif thought good on some to execute Justice and the rest to tak to mercy , and as we will not haif oure Justice satisfeit with the meanest and basest personis so we wald haif speciall ...
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... wald undertak suche a com- missioun : Thay ar grite Lymmaris who nevir profest his Majesties obe- dience , and this maid the Counsaill to arme the Capitane of Clanrannald aganis thame . Donald Gorme hes gevin full contentment and ...
... wald undertak suche a com- missioun : Thay ar grite Lymmaris who nevir profest his Majesties obe- dience , and this maid the Counsaill to arme the Capitane of Clanrannald aganis thame . Donald Gorme hes gevin full contentment and ...
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... wald be sum difficultie in the execu- tioun of his resolutioun so lang as Allane and his friendis stoode in termes of love and freindschip , he thoght that the nixt expedient wes to mak some dissensioun amangs thame by making offer of ...
... wald be sum difficultie in the execu- tioun of his resolutioun so lang as Allane and his friendis stoode in termes of love and freindschip , he thoght that the nixt expedient wes to mak some dissensioun amangs thame by making offer of ...
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... wald go with thame to the Marques and thay wald reconsile him to the Marques and then they sould gif over the land : Allane lyke ane auld subtile fox persaving thair drift , and being als cairfull to preserve his heade as thay wer ...
... wald go with thame to the Marques and thay wald reconsile him to the Marques and then they sould gif over the land : Allane lyke ane auld subtile fox persaving thair drift , and being als cairfull to preserve his heade as thay wer ...
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... wald ryde vpon the xv day ; the sutes being daylie called in the meantyme . is taken from a Manuscript in the hand - writing of Sir Thomas Hamilton , Secre- tary of State , afterwards first Earl of Haddington . P Vpon the xv day the ...
... wald ryde vpon the xv day ; the sutes being daylie called in the meantyme . is taken from a Manuscript in the hand - writing of Sir Thomas Hamilton , Secre- tary of State , afterwards first Earl of Haddington . P Vpon the xv day the ...
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