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Updated: June 14, 2025

The appurtenances of such a mill, even to the very buhr-stones themselves, are fashioned on the spot. How primitive such a meal-grinder may be is shown by the fact that a neighbor of mine recently offered a new mill, complete, for sale at six dollars. A few nails, and a country-made iron rynd and spindle, were the only things in it that he had not made himself, from the raw materials.

Horace Kephart - Our Southern Highlanders

For the same reason we know not what became of the brethren Armstrong, Cranstoun, and George Rynd, summoned with the other malefactors for November 13. During the session of the General Assembly in December 1563, Knox was compelled to chronicle domestic enormities.

Andrew Lang - John Knox and the Reformation