 | George Brunton, David Haig - Judges - 1832 - 616 pages
...misled from the paths of loyalty, than actuated by premeditated designs to overturn the government. Indeed, many informations, which he suspected to have...found in his repositories after his death unopened. He was the friend and coadjutor of Archibald, Duke of Argyll, and from the knowledge his Lordship possessed... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1848 - 304 pages
...Justice-Clerk after the Rebellion of 1745. He sternly discouraged all informers, and many communications which he suspected to have been sent by over-officious...persons were found in his repositories, after his death, unopened.1 He was a nephew of the patriotic Fletcher of Saltón, and an intimate friend and coadjutor... | |
 | Dugald Butler - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1906 - 448 pages
...misled from the paths of loyalty, than actuated by premeditated designs to overturn the Government. Indeed, many informations, which he suspected to have...found in his repositories, after his death, unopened. He was the friend and coadjutor of Archibald, Duke of Argyll, and from the knowledge his lordship possessed... | |
 | John Porteous, William Roughead - Porteous Riots, 1736 - 1909 - 428 pages
...abstained as much as possible from harsh or violent measures, when such were not absolutely necessary. Indeed, many informations, which he suspected to have been sent by over-officious or malignant persons, were found in his repositories after his death unopened. Lord Milton was the... | |
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He abstained as much as possible from severe measures, and adopted means either to conceal, or recal, such of the rebels as had been rather misled from the paths of loyalty, than actuated by premeditated designs to overturn the government. Indeed, many... 