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 walked on too, wondering who those men might be in the carriage that had just passed him. Presently he met the clergyman of the parish, the minister as he was there called, and, as he had a slight acquaintance with him, he stopped and asked him whose carriage it was that had passed him, and which the minister coming in the opposite direction had met.

"That's the Lord 's carriage."

"Who's the Lord ?"

"The eldest son of that right honourable, as well as right worthy, and pious nobleman, the Earl of ."

"He is the owner of the land about here, is he not?"

"Ay, he is so."

"Did not his family get possession of it at the Reformation, when they got the lands of that Abbey?"

"Ay, they did so."

"I have read some story about roasting a man till he signed some deeds."

"His lordship and his noble ancestors were aye a very pious family; and had just a perfect abhorrence of that man of sin, the Pope of Rome, and all his works. May be then it's not unlike that