Waverley : or, "Tis sixty years since . such .a pecuniary donation to each individual astended rather to improve the conviviality than the disciplineof their march. After inspecting the cavalry, Sir Everardagain conducted his nephew to the library, where he produceda letter, carefully folded, surrounded by a little stripe of flox-silk, according to ancient form, and sealed with an accurateimpression of the Waverley coat-of-arms. It was addressed,with great formality, To Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, Esq. ofBradwardine, at his principal mansion of Tully-Veolan, inPerthshire, North Britain. These—By
Waverley : or, "Tis sixty years since . such .a pecuniary donation to each individual astended rather to improve the conviviality than the disciplineof their march. After inspecting the cavalry, Sir Everardagain conducted his nephew to the library, where he produceda letter, carefully folded, surrounded by a little stripe of flox-silk, according to ancient form, and sealed with an accurateimpression of the Waverley coat-of-arms. It was addressed,with great formality, To Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, Esq. ofBradwardine, at his principal mansion of Tully-Veolan, inPerthshire, North Britain. These—By the hands of CaptainEdward Waverley, nephew of Sir Everard Waverley, of Waverley-Honour, Bart. The gentleman to whom this enormous greeting wasaddressed, of whom we shall have more to say in the sequel,had been in arms for the exiled family of Stuart in the year1715, and was made prisoner at Preston in Lancashire. Hewas of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassedfortune; a scholai, according to the scholarsliip of Scotchmen,. WAVEHLEY EXAMINING SIR HILDEBHAND S SWOKD. WAVERLEY 33 that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and hewas rather a reader tlian a grammarian. Of his zeal for theclassic authors he is said to have given an uncommon the road between Preston and London he made his escapefrom his guards; but being afterwards found loitering nearthe place where they had lodged the former night, he wasrecognised, and again arrested. His companions, and even hisescort, were surprised at his infatuation, and could not helpinquiring, why, being once at liberty, he had not made thebest of his way to a place of safety; to which he replied, thathe had intended to do so, but, in good faith, he had returned Titus Livius, which he had forgot in the hurry of hisescape.* The simplicity of this anecdote struck the gentleman,who, as we before observed, had managed the defence of someof those unfortunate persons, at the expense of Sir Everard,and
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