burgesse's

Updated: May 20, 2025

"You should inquire into these matters a little more curiously." "To what purpose?" said the Earl. "To hear old stories about the Tinwald laws, and the contending rights of the lords and the clergy, and all the rest of that Celtic barbarism, which, like Burgesse's thorough-paced doctrine enters at one ear, paces through, and goes out at the other?"

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak