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There is a mortgage over your father's extensive estate, to the amount of 40,000 merks, due ostensibly to Peregrine Peterson, the Conservator of Scottish Privileges at Campvere."
I observed as much delicacy as I could in communicating to him the usage we had received, but I obviously saw the detail gave him great pain. "I wad rather than a thousand merks," he said, "that I had been at hame! To misguide strangers, and forbye a', my ain natural cousin, that had showed me sic kindness I wad rather they had burned half the Lennox in their folly!
For themselves they were claiming a few merks, and a few bolls of meal, a decent subsistence. Mr.
An' so the Laird behoved either to gae back o' his word, or wager twa hunder merks; and sa he e'en tock the wager, rather than be shamed wi' the like o' them. And now he's like to get it to pay, and I'm thinking that's what makes him sae swear to come hame at e'en." "Indeed," said Lord Menteith, "from my idea of your family plate, Donald, your master is certain to lose such a wager."
"Yes," replied Burley, with stern and gloomy deliberation, "I am that John Balfour, who promised to lay thy head where thou shouldst never lift it again; and God do so unto me, and more also, if I do not redeem my word!" "Then a bed of heather, or a thousand merks!" said Bothwell, striking at Burley with his full force.
"Never mind, kinsman," said Rob, laughing; "it will aye open for a friend's necessity, or to pay a just due and here," he added, pulling out a rouleau of gold, "here is your ten hundred merks count them, and see that you are full and justly paid." Mr.
"Never mind, kinsman," said Rob, laughing; "it will aye open for a friend's necessity, or to pay a just due and here," he added, pulling out a rouleau of gold, "here is your ten hundred merks count them, and see that you are full and justly paid." Mr.
Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow, had gained the official situation of town-piper of by his merit, with all the emoluments thereof; namely, the Piper's Croft, as it is still called, a field of about an acre in extent, five merks, and a new livery-coat of the town's colours, yearly; some hopes of a dollar upon the day of the election of magistrates, providing the provost were able and willing to afford such a gratuity; and the privilege of paying, at all the respectable houses in the neighbourhood, an annual visit at spring-time, to rejoice their hearts with his music, to comfort his own with their ale and brandy, and to beg from each a modicum of seed-corn.
"If it be a plot at all, there must be treason in it, or sedition at least," said the Bailie "Will you bail him for four hundred merks?" "Four hundred merks for an old Blue-Gown! Think on the act 1701 regulating bail-bonds! Strike off a cipher from the sum I am content to bail him for forty merks." "Well, Mr.
The price set upon the head of that "notour traitor, Mr. John Welsh," dead or alive, was 9000 merks. Mr. Arnot was valued at 3000!
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