 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination, by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...number, to screen himself from justice, erected the kuiin (ie the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands upon a rocky, and almost inaccessible peninsula,... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - English poetry - 1819 - 524 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...number, to screen himself from justice, erected the kaim (*. r. the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands upon a rocky and almost inaccessible peninsula,... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - Medicine in literature - 1819 - 906 pages
...abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ; sand Barclay, one of their number, to screen himself from justice, erected the kaim (». e. the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands upon a rocky and almost inaccessible peninsula,... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...number, to screen himself from justice, erected the kaim (fe the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands upon a rocky and almost inaccessible peninsula,... | |
 | Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 516 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ; and Barclay, one of their number, to sereen himself from justice, ereeted the kaim («'. e. the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking ofthe hell- brut h. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...number, to screen himself from justice, erected the kaim (i. e, the camp, or fortn-sO of Mathers, which .HiamU upon a rocky and almost inaccessible peninsula,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...their number, to screen himself from justice, erected ihe kaim ({. r. the camp, or fortress) of Mathers, which stands upon a rocky and almost inaccessible... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1128 pages
...scene of abomination, by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for the offence, and Barclay, one of their number, to screen himself from justice, erected the Kaim (i. • . the fortress) of Mathers. The Laird of Arbuthnott is said to have eluded the Royal vengeance,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 672 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. " The three Lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...inaccessible peninsula, overhanging the German Ocean. The Laird of Arbuthnot is said to have eluded ihe royal vengeance, by claiming the benefit of the law... | |
 | John Leyden, Walter Scott - Poetry - 1858 - 456 pages
...observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually partaking of the hell-broth. The three lairds were outlawed for this offence ;...inaccessible peninsula, overhanging the German Ocean. The laird of Arbuthnot is said to have eluded the royal vengeance, by claiming the benefit of the law... | |
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... and a boiling cauldron, into which they plunged the unlucky sheriff. After he was sodden (as the king termed it) for a sufficient time, the savages, that they might literally observe the royal mandate, concluded the scene of abomination by actually... 
