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...n, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that is neither here nor there....

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...Excerpt: At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only number...

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... his father Was call?d Sicilius, who did join his honor Against the Romans with Cassibelan, But had his titles by Tenantius whom He served with glory and admired success, So gain?d the sur-addition Leonatus; And had, besides this gentleman in question, Two other sons, who in the wars o? the time Died with their swords in hand; for which their father, Then old and fond of i...

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..................................................................................................... 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS....

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