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He was bitterly opposed to the Covenanters, and fought against them at Turriff in 1639. A man of considerable ability and learning, his vanity and eccentricity verged upon insanity, and he is said to have d. from the effects of an uncontrollable fit of joyful laughter on hearing news of the Restoration.
He did not look at the men as he spoke, for he was not yet sure whether they gave him the credence for which he would not sue, and he did not care to see if they derided him. "I sink," said Turriff, speaking slowly in English now, "I sink we cannot make that mee-rácle be done." "What miracle?" asked Trenholme. Those of the men who understood any English laughed.
He has twenty breeding cows, and has carried almost every medal and prize at the Banff and Turriff shows for polled cattle, as well as many of the highest prizes at the Royal Northern and Highland Society's shows. In Morayshire we have Mr Brown, Westerton, who is well known as one of our best judges of polled cattle.
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