multiple-poinding

Updated: May 8, 2025

'I wish from my soul it were true, said Ewart; 'but what the devil put that in your head? 'Lord, man, I got a grip of ane of their attorneys in Carlisle, and he tauld me that there wasna a lawyer in England ony mair than himsell that kend the nature of a multiple-poinding!

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet