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                       ( 3 ) both pretend to speak English, and have a liberal part of education: but since learning is now so easy to be obtained, ignorance and corruption of speech are greatly decreased. In the county of Fife, on the sea coast, there stands a little town, inhabited by few but fishers, called Bucky harbour, because of the sea buckies and shells so plenty to be found on the rocks, in and about that place; there is little mention made of this town by historians, to know its original extraction and anti- quities, but in their own burgess-ticket, which was part of it perfect truths, but more of it by way of lampoon; this ticket was dated the two and thirty day of the month of Julius Caesar, their coat of arms was two hands gripping each other over a Seate's rumple their oath was, “I wish the de il may tak me an I binna an honest man to you an ye binna de like to me, “An article of good neighbourhood they had, whoever was first up in a good morning, was to raise all the rest to go to sea, but if a bad morning, they piss and ly down again, till break of day, then raises wife Willy, who could judge the weather by the blowing of the wind.

Ther freedoms were to take all kinds of fish