The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . ored to consciousness, he craved mercy on bendedknees ; and, although the lady assured him of a handsomereward from her husband if he would accompany her to thecastle, he begged for leave to flee from his native land; whileshe, with a heart grateful for the restoration of life, kindlypermitted him to retain his sacrilegious spoil, and the greedysexton was never heard of more ! This romantic story will remind the reader of the extra-ordinary case of the ladys kinsman, Sir William Lind
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . ored to consciousness, he craved mercy on bendedknees ; and, although the lady assured him of a handsomereward from her husband if he would accompany her to thecastle, he begged for leave to flee from his native land; whileshe, with a heart grateful for the restoration of life, kindlypermitted him to retain his sacrilegious spoil, and the greedysexton was never heard of more ! This romantic story will remind the reader of the extra-ordinary case of the ladys kinsman, Sir William Lindsay ofCovington, who, under like circumstances, was laid out fordead; and, if his young great-granddaughter had not observed his beard to wagg, he might also, instead of personally greet-ing the assembly of relatives and friends who met to attend hisfuneral, have undergone the same ordeal of premature may be worthy of notice, that cases of protracted slumberwere not confined to the direct members of the great family ofLindsay, but were also common to some of those who walked 1 Lives, ii. p. ? ( [ - , I EDZELL—MAJOR WOOD. 17 in humble life, it being scarcely fifty years since the graveclosed on a poor female of the same name, called Euphemia,or, more familiarly, Sleepin Effic Lindsay. This singularcreature belonged to the parish of Guthrie, but latterly residedin Cortachy, and, on various occasions, lay in a state of utterunconsciousness for a fortnight or more at a time. Thesesoporific attacks were periodical in her case: all attempts toarouse her from them were in vain; and, after lying in thatmorbid condition for the long and almost incredible periodof six weeks, she at last expired, unconscious, it is believed,of her approaching end. The ashes of Major James Wood lie within the bounds ofthe same cemetery with those of the great lords of Edzell; and,as his history is intimately associated with the traditions ofthe locality, some notice of him may not be ina
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