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20                      at Stephen's Green, where his brother was exalted to that high station a short time before. Balf's dwelling house remains to this day on the side of the mountain near Ballimore; it contains two rooms, and is                      situated in a shrubbery, on the side of a                       hill, evironed with rocks, which makes it difficult of access, even to those that know it, and being thatched with heath under cover of trees, is not to be seen at                      any distance, though one may see from thence the whole country on all sides .

THE LIFE,

OF

GILDER ROY,

MURDERER, RAVISHER, INCENDIARY, AND

HIGHWAYMAN.

THIS villain was descended from an                       ancient family, and born in Perth- shire, in the highlands of Scotland. His father dying just as he came of age, left him eighty merks a year, which he squan- dered away in less than a year and a half, and then lived upon his mother who