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equally irritated and alarmed on hearing of this
flat refusal, and, starting from his chair exclaimed,
?Then, by the holy name of God, he shall eat
his dinner with me? and repairing instantly to the
house of Morton, brought about a reconciliation,
to Leith to beg his life as a boon at the hands of?
Lennox and her seducer. But the latter, inflamed
anew by her charms and tears, was inflexible ; the
Regent was his tool, and the prayers and tears of
the wretched wife were poured forth at their feet,
HOUSE OF THE EARLS OF MORTON, BLACKFRIARS STREET.
by making two very humbling concessions :-First,
by dismissing Drumquhasel, who was banished
from court, which he was not to approach within
teu miles under a heavy penalty ; second, the life
of Captain James Cullayne, that Morton inight
have more peaceable possession of his wife.
Mistress Cullayne, a woman of great beauty,
filled with pity by the danger impending over her
husband (then a prisoner), and touched with
Temorse for her former inconstancy, had come
in vain. The poor captain, who had seen many
a hot battle in the fields of the Dane and
Swede, and in the wars of his native country,
was ignominiously hanged on a gibbet, as a peaceoffering
to Morton?s wickedness.?
In the contemporary life of Queen Mary, printed
for the Bannatyne Club in 1834, we have the
following strange anecdote of Morton. We are
told that he ?had credite at the court, being leR
there by the traitoures to give intelligence of all
