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Title: The Men of the Moss-Hags
Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of
William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway

Author: S. R. Crockett

Release Date: April 25, 2010 [EBook #32137]

Language: English

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THE MEN OF THE MOSS-HAGS

_BEING A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE TAKEN FROM THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM GORDON OF
EARLSTOUN IN GALLOWAY AND TOLD OVER AGAIN BY_

S. R. CROCKETT

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1895
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1895,
BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

_To
ANDREW LANG
Poet, Romancer, Scholar, and Friend
of the goodly fellowship of the White Rose
I, born of the Hill-Folk
dedicate this attempt at a true history of
some who fought bravely beneath
the Banner of Blue_

_PREFATORY NOTE._

_I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James
Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who examined on my behalf all the local
records bearing upon the period and upon the persons treated of in this
book; and to the Reverend John Anderson of the Edinburgh University
Library, who brought to light from among the Earlstoun Papers and from
the long-lost records of the United Societies, many of the materials
which I have used in the writing of this story._

_I owe also much gratitude to the Library Committee of the University of
Edinburgh, for permission to use the letters which are printed in the
text, and for their larger permission to publish at some future time,
for purposes more strictly historical, a selection from both the sets of
manuscripts named above._

_Most of all, I am indebted to my friend, Mr. John McMillan of Glenhead
in Galloway, who has not only given me in this, as in former works, the
benefit of his unrivalled local kn