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| | The Move to West Wemyss |
 | | The very night the English admiral, Lord Clinton, proposed to land his troops, the laird came down before daylight to examine the watch, and seeing lights and commotion among the English vessels, divined their intention, and took means to prevent it. |
 | | The lords demanded that he should subscribe the covenant, seeing he was, “ane of the principale baronis of the cuntre,” or else be accounted by them an enemy to the commonwealth, and they were quite willing that he should be exempt from field service, provide he sent his son and servants. |
 | | Besides, they knew that Lord Darnley was expected, and the rumor that he was seriously thought of as her future husband had been widely circulated, and had awaken, of course, a universal desire to see him.... |
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