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  PUBLICATIONS
  OF THE
  SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY

  VOLUME XX

  THE LYON IN MOURNING

  VOL. I

  OCTOBER 1895




  THE
  LYON IN MOURNING

  OR A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES LETTERS
  JOURNALS ETC. RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS
  OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART
  BY THE REV. ROBERT FORBES, A.M.
  BISHOP OF ROSS AND CAITHNESS
  1746-1775

  Edited from his Manuscript, with a Preface by
  HENRY PATON, M.A.

  IN THREE VOLUMES

  I

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  EDINBURGH

  Printed at the University Press by T. and A. CONSTABLE
  for the Scottish History Society

  1895




CONTENTS


                                                                PAGE

  PREFACE,                                                        xi

  Letter from the Rev. Mr. Robert Lyon to his mother and
  sisters,                                                         3

  The last and dying speech of Robert Lyon, A.M., presbyter
  at Perth,                                                       12

  A Conversation between Mr. Lyon and Mr. Buchanan, of
  Arnprior, about the murder of Mr. Stewart of Glenbuckie,        21

  A short account of Mr. Lyon,                                    21

  Speech of Mr. Thomas Theodore Deacon,                           22

 