Quotes About Lairds

It won't be a very good army because it'll have one eye on the Lothian lairds and one eye on the Douglases. And by God, Richard Crawford," ended Buccleuch with a growl that lifted the pigeons off the turrets, "if they've got to watch you too, there'll be a wheen of skelly-eyed Scotsmen at the Golden Gates in the next few weeks.

Dr. Swift, as bitter as ever, had observed that the history of the Stuarts in their northern lands had been that the king had one legitimate child and a flock of bastards. Then he would die young, and violently, and the lairds would again give decisive proof of the proposition that being Regent of Scotland was a capital offence.