cow-stealers

Updated: July 15, 2025

Scott was descended from the old cow-stealers of Buccleuch was he? Scott in his genteel Life of Bonaparte, says that "when Murat was in Egypt, the similarity between the name of the celebrated Mameluke Mourad and that of Bonaparte's Meilleur Sabreur was remarked, and became the subject of jest amongst the comrades of the gallant Frenchman."

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye

Why, son of a pettifogger, of an Edinburgh pettifogger. "Oh, but Scott was descended from the old cow-stealers of Buccleuch, and therefore " descended from old cow-stealers, was he?

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye