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Moreover, he held many noble prisoners taken at Solway Glencairn, Maxwell, Cassilis, Fleming, Grey, and others, and all of these, save Sir George Douglas, "have not sticked," says Henry himself, "to take upon them to set the crown of Scotland on our head."
Lilburne suspected that the Assembly was in touch with new stirrings towards a rising in the Highlands, to lead which Charles had, in 1652, promised to send Middleton, who had escaped from an English prison, as general. It was always hard to find any one under whom the great chiefs would serve, and Glencairn, with Kenmure, was unable to check their jealousies.
The fruits of Knox's labours followed him, in March 1557, in the shape of a letter, signed by Glencairn, Lorne, Lord Erskine, and James Stewart, Mary's bastard brother. They prayed Knox to return. They were ready "to jeopardy lives and goods in the forward setting of the glory of God." This has all the air of risking civil war. Knox was not eager.
To Mrs. Locke Knox adds that no idolatry should be erected, or alteration made within the town. The Regent was now sending Lord James, Argyll, and Mr. Gawain Hamilton to treat, when Glencairn and his men marched into Perth.
Or take that great scene in Marmion, where the spectral summons is pealed from Edinburgh Cross: "Then thunder'd forth a roll of names; The first was thine, unhappy James! Then all thy nobles came; Crawford, Glencairn, Montrose, Argyle, Ross, Bothwell, Forbes, Lennox, Lyle, Each chief of birth and fame."
It was now seen that the Regent was no longer in the mood for temporizing; and the Congregation despatched two of their number, the Earl of Glencairn and Sir Hew Campbell, sheriff of Ayr, to deprecate her wrath. Their reception must have taught them that times were now changed since the days when the Regent deemed it necessary to conciliate their party.
Glencairn Burns, son of the poet, then in Scotland, came "To stir with joy the towers of Abbotsford." The neighbours were assembled, and, having his son to help him, Sir Walter did the honours of the table once more as of yore. On the 19th the poet Wordsworth arrived, and left on the 22d. On the 20th, Mrs. London, Albion Press, 1810. Scotch Metrical Version of the 90th Psalm.
Gilfillan, subscribed by a worthy and professing nobleman, William, Earl of Glencairn; nor do I find it therein set down that I am to receive any charges or commands anent my doings from Major William Melville of Cairnvreckan. Major Melville reddened even to the well-powdered ears which appeared beneath his neat military sidecurls, the more so as he observed Mr. Morton smile at the same moment.
I have been introduced to a good many of the noblesse, but my avowed patrons and patrones es are, the Duchess of Gordon the Countess of Glencairn, with my Lord and Lady Betty the Dean of Faculty Sir John Whitefoord. I have likewise warm friends among the literati; Professors Stewart, Blair, and Mr. Mackenzie the Man of Feeling. An unknown hand left ten guineas for the Ayrshire bard with Mr.
He was among the détenus whom Bonaparte's iniquitous commands confined so long in France; and coming there into possession of a large estate in right of his mother, the heiress of the Glencairn family, he had the means of being very expensive, and probably then acquired those gay habits which rendered him averse to serious business.
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