This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...been 'well-favored prettie gentlemen and in good repute where they lived, ' and the names of successive lairds appear and reappear, as principals or as witnesses, in the Instruments, Tacks, Decreets, and Charters which have been preserved among the records of the burgh of Crail. Typical Fife lairds, probably, and with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...been 'well-favored prettie gentlemen and in good repute where they lived, ' and the names of successive lairds appear and reappear, as principals or as witnesses, in the Instruments, Tacks, Decreets, and Charters which have been preserved among the records of the burgh of Crail. Typical Fife lairds, probably, and with the Fife laird's proverbial inheritance: A pickle land, a lump o' debt, a gangiri plea, and a doo-cot. The doo-cot, at any rate, is still there, with its solid walls and deep crow-steps, watching the old house like a sentinel from the field to the north. Once again, towards the end of the seventeenth century, the light of history flashes upon Barns. The then laird, John Cunningham, married Isabel, daughter of the murdered Archbishop Sharp; she who had been with her father in the coach and six which started to drive across Magus Moor that May afternoon. Alexander Cunningham of Barns was married in 1596 to Helen, daughter of Thomas Myrton of Cambo, only a mile or two away, and Euphame was probably born in the following year. The world her eyes looked out upon was a marvellously different world from that which lies around us now, and yet there are some main features which change so little with the changing years that by keeping fast hold of them we can partly recon struct the setting of her life. The sea and the sky and human nature have much in common, for though they are for ever fluctuating, varying, renewing themselves in part and in accident they yet remain in essence eternally the same. That great stretch of cloud and water which is the distinctive charm of this wind-swept region, lay then as now before the windows of the house of Barns. On clear days from many points near at hand the eye can follow the line of the opposite coast from St. Ab...
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Add this copy of The Scottish Review, Volume 36... to cart. $62.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
