History of Scotland: By Patrick Fraser Tytler, .. 3
History of Scotland: By Patrick Fraser Tytler, .. 3
Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849
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99, 100, 101, 103, 105. 74 HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, 1890. usoal eessatioa, in which the country began to breathe anew, and to devote itself to the pursuits of peace. So happy a state of things was first interrupted by the ferocity of the Wolf of Badenoch, and the disor- ders of the northern parts of the kingdom. On some provocation given him by the Bishop of Moray, this chief descended from his mountains, and, after laying waste the country, with a sacrilege which excited unwonted horror, sacked an...d plundered the cathe- dral of Elgin, carrying off its rich chalices and vest- ments, polluting its holy shrines with blood, and, finally, setting fire to the noble pile, which, with the adjoining houses of the canons, and the neighbour- ing town, were burnt to the ground.^ Tliis exploit of the father, was only a signal foir a more serious in- cursion, conducted by his natural son, Duncan Stew- art, whose maimers were worthy of his descent, and who, at the head of a wild ass^nblage of katherans, armed only with the sword and target, broke with irresistible fury across the range of hills which di- vides the county of Aberdeen and Forfar, and b^an to destroy the country, and murder the inhabitants, with reckless and indiscriminate cruelty.
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