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 (11) Lastened, and, in the most supplieant mannen Orted she might take away his dad corpse. He was immediately put into a curt conveyed goner house in the new town of Ayr, and, by Temedies, and the most friendly attention, was revised under her hospitable roof. Among others who beheld this mournful event, was the Minister's servant of Ayr, who returned home, and informed his master and the family of what he had seen. Thomas the Rinner, the famous, Scots Prophet, was riding with the Minister at that tine, who, 'hearing the eeil tidings, averred that Wallace was not dead, or his prophecies were all false, which he bad uttered concerninig his delivering Scotland. Accordingly, the servant was sent to make the strictest enquiry about the new town of Ayr, and particularly the house of his nurse.- Without ceremony he rushed into her house, and observing a place where he supposed that there was a concealed bed, sternly demanded who lay there she fell upon her knees and earnestly entreated him to spare the brave and noble Wallace. He then protested, in the strongest language, that he was a friend and not a foe to Wallace, which induced the nurse to admit him into his apartment to inform him by whom he had been sent. Returning home with the joyful tidings, Thomas the Rymer exclaimed, that before his death he would lay thousands of the English' on the ground, and thrice rescue Scotland from slavery.