#David Threipland of Fingask

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"... cleaving his skull with their broadswords, satisfied the world that the unfortunate gentleman had actually brains, the end of his life thus giving proof of a fact greatly doubted during its progress."

--Sir Walter Scott, _Waverley_ volume 2, p150

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