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that the mischievous chance should happen for him to be killed with a shot, and none but him, which is the greatest discomfort that ever came upon me. " * No hint is here given of any suspicion that Ker of Ferniherst was implicated in the death of this young man. Hence we are surprised to find that, on the day after this letter was written, Sir John Foster drew up a statement in which he gives an entirely different complexion to the incident. He asserts that it was not an accident. " Had it bee...n an accident, " he says, " or sudden breaking by rascals, as there was no such matter, the gentlemen of Scotland with their drums, fife, shot, and such as carried the ' ensigne ' and ' pen- seller, ' would have tarried with the warden ; so that it appeareth plainly it was a ' pretended matter ' beforehand, for the wardens sitting quietly calling their bills, the warden of England thinking no harm, the part)- of Scotland seeing the time serve for their ' former desire, ' suddenly broke, striking up an alarm with sound of drum and fife, and gave the charge upon us — in which charge the Lord Russell was cruelly slain with shot, and so divers gentlemen of Scotland with their footmen and horsemen and whole * Border Papers, vol.
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