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enough, this same laird Anthony some years before 

 had joined what Wodrow termed 'the abominable 

 sect of the Quakers,' and remained attached to that 

 body long enough to graft a new set of names on the 

 family tree. His first six children were named Jacob, 

 Zerubabel, Hannah, another Zerubabel, Lazarus, and 

 Emmanuel; but the names of the three youngest 

 betray symptoms of backsliding Hibernia, William, 

 and Joan. Perhaps two years' imprisonment, which he 

 suffered on account of his connection with the Quakers, 

 sufficed to cool his zeal. Anthony's brother William, on 

 the other hand, got into trouble for his association with 

 Lord Balmerino, whose Supplication against Parlia- 

 mentary Bishops was the subject of an indictment, 

 drawn up by the Lord Advocate of the day. This last 

 is a fine sample of legal Billingsgate, the Supplication 

 being described as a 'scandalous, reproachful, odious, 

 infamous, and seditious libel, most despitefully belched 

 and vomited forth,' and all the King's good subjects 

 are exhorted ' to crush the cockatrice in the egg, and to 

 abhor it as a pestilential clout.' 



Measured by the change in manners and customs, the 

 distance from the day when the first Haig established 

 his homestead on the bold bluff between Leaderfoot 

 and Dryburgh seems even greater than when it is 

 reckoned by centuries. It is a grim gratification, in 

 these days when agitators rage and parish councils 

 imagine a vain thing, to read the signature of Petrus 

 del Hage attached to the instrument whereby Richard 

 de Morville, Constable of Scotland, sold to Henry 



