. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. here horses and men were soon laughing at them from a piece of solid ground, hemade off, but the tradition as locally handed down specially records his report that they just d d extraordinar. The strong Presbyterian convictions and Hanoverian sym-pathies of the Lady Kinmundy led her to take an activepart on the Government side; and Glenbuckets rude civilitieswere repaid by her active co-operation with Lord Mark Kerrsdragoons and the Campbell militia who carried out the orders FERGUSONS IX ABEEDEENSHIEE 269 for
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. here horses and men were soon laughing at them from a piece of solid ground, hemade off, but the tradition as locally handed down specially records his report that they just d d extraordinar. The strong Presbyterian convictions and Hanoverian sym-pathies of the Lady Kinmundy led her to take an activepart on the Government side; and Glenbuckets rude civilitieswere repaid by her active co-operation with Lord Mark Kerrsdragoons and the Campbell militia who carried out the orders FERGUSONS IX ABEEDEENSHIEE 269 for the destruction of the non-jurmg places of worship inBuchan. Whether or not the story be true that she watchedfrom the hill of Coynach the flames of the chapels at OldDeer and Longside, which is inconsistent with another whichrecords the interchange of repartees with the Rev. Mr. Skinnerat Longside on the same occasion, it is certain that when sheheard the former edifice was being rebuilt on her husbandslands at Old Deer, she promptly rode over with some of her. ELISABETH FERGUSON, LADY KINMUNDY, C. 1745. people and demolished it. A local minister warned his corre-spondent to remember in writing letters to Old Deer that theLady Kinmundy hath given it the name of Dear William—an appellation which fortunately never took hold;—and thewell-known song O Logie o Buchan, Avritten by the Jacobiteschoohnaster on whose head the Duke of Cumberland set aprice for having Avritten Awa, Whigs, awa/ originally beganwith the line 0 woe to Kinmundy, Kinmundy the Laird, 270 CLAN FEKGUSSON an aspiration which was probably stimulated by the fact that inlegal pleadings of the time it was stated that * the said JamesFerguson is a person publicly known to be well affected tous, our person, and Government. His uncle had been theJudas of Drydens great satire, and in some of the Jacobitelampoons an elaborate comparison was drawn between hiswife and Jezebel. The first Mrs. Ferguson died in Edinburgh
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