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However, the culmination of this officer's troubles did not reach him until a serious rebellion occurred among his subjects so mixed and various. A workman William Finlay presumably an Orkneyman, who had been regularly employed by Miles Macdonell when the scurvy was bad in Mr. Hillier's camp, refused to obey the health regulations, his one objection being to drink this spruce decoction.
I recall that on one occasion I was discussing with Judge Methuen and Dr. O'Rell the attempted escapes of Charles I. from Carisbrooke Castle; a point of difference having arisen, I said: "Gentlemen, I will refer to Hillier's 'Narrative, and I doubt not that my argument will be sustained by that authority." It was vastly easier, however, to cite Hillier than it was to find him.
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