Rob Roy MacGregor

Above the cabinet, in a kind of niche, was a complete corslet of glittering steel, with a closed helmet and flanked by gauntlets and battle-axes.

Around were hung trophies and relics of various kinds, a scimitar of Tipu Saib, a highland broadsword from Flodden Field, a pair of Rippon spurs from Bannockburn, and, above all, a gun which had belonged to Rob Roy, and bore his initials, R.M.G., an object of peculiar interest to me at the time, as it was understood Scott was actually engaged in printing a novel founded on the story of that famous outlaw.

On each side of the cabinet were bookcases, well stored with works of romantic fiction in various languages, many of them rare, and antiquated.

This, however, was merely his cottage library, the principal part of his books being in Edinburgh.

"'If he's not dead, they've done him great injustice, "'for they've buried him.' The joke passed harmless and unnoticed by Mrs. Scott, but hit the poor domine just as he had raised a cup of tea to his lips, causing a burst of laughter, which sent half of the contents about the table.

After breakfast, Scott was occupied for some time correcting proof-sheets which he had received by the mail.

The novel of Rob Roy, as I have already observed, was at that time in the press, and I supposed them to be the proof-sheets of that work.

The authorship of the Waverley novels was still a matter of conjecture and uncertainty, though few doubted their being principally written by Scott.

Now, the name Auchmar does come from Buchanan's ancestral family estate in a place called Loch Lomond, Scotland.

And fun little side note is that, uh, region, that area would have been home to, uh, the MacGregor family, uh, Clan MacGregor, and one of them was a fellow by the name of Rob Roy.

So if anybody have seen the movie starring Liam Neeson back in the day, now you know where he's from, and so is Isaac Buchanan.

Now, Buchanan and McNab also shared something else, uh, kind of sad ends to their lives in relation to their financial status, you know, going from the top of the city's hierarchy to the very bottom.

The proceedings of learned societies, some Latin divinity, encyclopedias, physical science, and above all, optics, held the chief place upon the shelves, and it was only in holes and corners that anything really legible existed as by accident.

The Parents' Assistant, Rob Roy, Waverley, and Guy Mannering, The Voyages of Captain Wood's Rogers, Fuller's and Bunyan's Holy Wars, the Reflections of Robinson Crusoe, the Female Bluebeard, G. San's Mara au Diable.

How came it in that grave assembly? Ainsworth's Tower of London, and four old volumes of Punch.

These were the chief exceptions.

I knew them almost by heart, particularly the visit to the Pontos, and I remember my surprise when I found long afterwards that they were famous and signed with a famous name.

To me, as I read and admired them, they were the works of Mr. Punch.

Time and again I tried to read Rob Roy, with whom of course I was acquainted from the tales of a grandfather.

Time and again the early part, with Rashleigh, and think of it, the adorable Diana, choked me off, and I shall never forget the pleasure and surprise with which, lying on the floor one summer evening, I struck of a sudden into the first scene with Andrew Fairservice, the worthy Dr. Lightfoot, mistrusted with a bogle, a wean green trash, Jenny Lass.

[laughs]

I'm glad people are agreeing 'cause, like, when I heard it, my mind was so blown because now, also through my Gregson side, we're also related to Rob Roy MacGregor.

So now the two, like...

Oh, and oh, by the way, through the Stewart line-

Cousin.

I'm also related to Mary, Queen of Scots.

But how weird that on my dad's MacGregor side, I co- I'm related directly to Rob Roy MacGregor of Scottish folk history.

[laughs]

There's also

Rob Roy, remember? Yeah.

But the main problem, though, is this idea is actually what the British themselves caused.

They actually embraced what's called devolution.

I knew the mother of an illegitimate child who, for fear of exposure, murdered her infant, but labored through long, wearisome days to support her mother.

Tradition reports that Robin Hood and Rob Roy gave large portions of their plunder to the poor.

Section 10.

Undeveloped appetences.

I knew the mother of an illegitimate child who, for fear of exposure, murdered her infant, but labored through long, wearisome days to support her mother.

Tradition reports that Robin Hood and Rob Roy gave large portions of their plunder to the poor.

Section ten: Undeveloped appetences.

We have seen that there are native tendencies to action in all men.