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"From Tillietudlem?" said the old gentleman, rising hastily in his bed, and sitting bolt upright, "Open the shutters, Pike I hope my sister-in-law is well furl up the bed-curtain. What have we all here?" The wappen-schaw? I told her a month since I was not to be there. Paduasoy and hanging sleeves? why, hang the gipsy herself! Grand Cyrus and Philipdastus?
"From Tillietudlem?" said the old gentleman, rising hastily in his bed, and sitting bolt upright, "Open the shutters, Pike I hope my sister-in-law is well furl up the bed-curtain. What have we all here?" The wappen-schaw? I told her a month since I was not to be there. Paduasoy and hanging sleeves? why, hang the gipsy herself! Grand Cyrus and Philipdastus?
The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough, the name of which is no way essential to my story, on the morning of the 5th of May, 1679, when our narrative commences.
There was one of my able-bodied men the other day who plainly refused to attend the wappen-schaw at my bidding. Is there no law for such recusancy, Colonel Grahame?" "I think I could find one," said Claverhouse, with great composure, "if your ladyship will inform me of the name and residence of the culprit."
During her absence, Edith took her writing materials, and prepared against her return the following letter, superscribed, For the hands of Major Bellenden of Charnwood, my much honoured uncle, These: "My dear Uncle This will serve to inform you I am desirous to know how your gout is, as we did not see you at the wappen-schaw, which made both my grandmother and myself very uneasy.
"And what o' a' this, ye fule wife? Or what had Nebuchadnezzar to do with the wappen-schaw of the Upper Ward of Clydesdale?"
Under the reign of the last Stuarts, frequent musters of the people, both for military exercise and for sports and pastimes, were appointed by authority, and the Sheriff of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, on the day our narrative commences, May 5, 1679.
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