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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 

 from his association with Lord Balmerino, whose 

 Supplication against Parliamentary 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 esta- 

 blished 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 instru- 

 ment whereby Eichard de Morville, Constable of 

 Scotland, sold to Henry St. Clair, in 1166, the 



