 | Walter Scott - 1813 - 444 pages
...their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the ancient former customes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1813 - 468 pages
...always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen form5 ed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | Charles O'Conor - 1818 - 534 pages
...diguitatis insigne, hejns virga; candoreni rectitudioemque moribus referre memento," &c. p. 316. " some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of " their first Captaines foot, whereon he standing receives an oath to preserve all the ancient former " customes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 312 pages
...their captaine npon a stone, always reserved to that pnrpose, and placed commonly npon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measnre of their first captained foot; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the anncient... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 pages
...a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a bill ; in some of which I hare seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their Г.Ы captain's foot ; whereon bee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auocient former custom«... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 290 pages
...their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 342 pages
...their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hilL In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | 1832 - 448 pages
...their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill; In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which...the measure of their first captain's foot ; whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customs of the countrey inviolable,... | |
 | John Windele - 1839 - 430 pages
...on which the ceremony of inaugurating the chieftains was performed. On these, he says, he found, " formed and engraven, a foot, which, they say, was the measure of their first captain's foot, whereon he, standing, received an oath, to preserve all the auncient former customs of the country inviolable."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1842 - 270 pages
...their eaptaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot, whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the aunoient former customes... | |
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They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot... 
