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bows, slings and stones, and Matilda with her bow and quiver at their head. The assailants, finding the castle so well defended, deemed it expedient to withdraw till they could return in greater force, and rode off to Rubygill Abbey, where they made known their errand to the father abbot, who having satisfied himself of their legitimacy, and conned over the allegations, said that doubtless Brother Michael had heinously offended, but it was not for the civil law to take cognizance of the misdoings of a holy friar: that he would summon a chapter of monks, and pass on the offender a sentence proportionate to his offence. The ministers of civil justice said that would not do. The abbot said it would do and should; and bade them not provoke the meekness of his Catholic charity to lay them under the curse of Rome. This threat had its effect, and the party rode off to

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