[Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookRob Roy INTRODUCTION---( 1829)
When the author projected this further encroachment on the patience of an
indulgent public, he was at some loss for a title; a good name being very
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I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Grace, and give him the soume of 3400 merks for his loss and damages sustained by him, both at Craigrostown and at his house, Auchinchisallen; and that your Grace shall give your word not to trouble or prosecute him afterwards; till which time he carries me, all the money I received this day, my books and bonds for entress, not yet paid, along with him, with assurance of hard usage, if any party are sent after him.
The soume I received this day, conform to the nearest computation I can make before several of the gentlemen, is 3227L.2sh.8d.Scots, of which I gave them notes.
I shall wait your Grace's return, and ever am, "Your Grace's most obedient, faithful, "humble servant, _Sic subscribitur,_ "John Grahame." THE DUKE OF MONTROSE TO ---- 28_th Nov._ 1716--_Killearn's Release._ "Glasgow, 28th Nov.
1716. "Sir,--Having acquainted you by my last, of the 21st instant, of what had happened to my friend, Mr.Grahame of Killearn, I'm very glad now to tell you, that last night I was very agreeably surprised with Mr.Grahame's coming here himself, and giving me the first account I had had of him from the time of his being carried away.
It seems Rob Roy, when he came to consider a little better of it, found that, he could not mend his matters by retaining Killearn his prisoner, which could only expose him still the more to the justice of the Government; and therefore thought fit to dismiss him on Sunday evening last, having kept him from the Monday night before, under a very uneasy kind of restraint, being obliged to change continually from place to place.
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