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See Tranent Muir by Skirving. Addison, Cato, i. 4. See p. 83. Variation from 2 Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4. See "Glee for King Charles," Waverley Novels, vol. xl. p. 40. Lady Louisa Stuart, youngest daughter of John, third Earl of Bute, and grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The well-known Mathematician and Natural Philosopher. Professor Playfair died in 1819 in his seventy-second year.
It was by a considerable exertion that they regained their place in the marching column, which was now moving rapidly forward to occupy the high grounds above the village of Tranent, between which and the sea lay the purposed march of the opposite army. This melancholy interview with his late sergeant forced many unavailing and painful reflections upon Waverley's mind.
The coal-hewers and salt-makers of Tranent and Preston-Pans were still sold with the soil.
At the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1745, a tramroad existed between the Tranent coal-pits and the small harbour of Cockenzie in East Lothian; and a portion of the line was selected by General Cope as a position for his cannon at the battle of Prestonpans. In these rude wooden tracks we find the germ of the modern railroad. Improvements were gradually made in them.
Another of the miserable victims on this occasion was John Fian, a schoolmaster at Tranent near Edinburgh, a young man, whom the ignorant populace had decorated with the style of doctor. He was tortured by means of a rope strongly twisted about his head, and by the boots. He was at length brought to confession.
It was by a considerable exertion that they regained their place in the marching column, which was now moving rapidly forward to occupy the high grounds above the village of Tranent, between which and the sea lay the purposed march of the opposite army. This melancholy interview with his late sergeant forced many unavailing and painful reflections upon Waverley's mind.
James was highly flattered at the idea that the devil should have said that he was the greatest enemy he ever had. He sent for Gellie Duncan to the palace, and made her play before him the same reel which she had played at the witches' dance in the kirk. Dr. Fian, or rather Cunningham, a petty schoolmaster at Tranent, was put to the torture among the rest.
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