The Plundering of Cullen House by the Rebels: an Incident in the Rebellion of 1745-46. Narrated by Eye-witnesses of the PlunderingJohnstone, 1887 - 25 pages |
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... china , pieces of broken wood , torn down from the panels of the rooms , papers , parchments , torn and trampled , and mixed with dust , and feathers , and jelly , and marmalade , and honey , and wet , and all sort of nastiness mixed ...
... china , pieces of broken wood , torn down from the panels of the rooms , papers , parchments , torn and trampled , and mixed with dust , and feathers , and jelly , and marmalade , and honey , and wet , and all sort of nastiness mixed ...
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... china or earthenware things , with blue sprangs upon them , which were broke , and what was in them was spilled out , which some called one thing and some called another : That he saw great multitudes of papers and parchments on the ...
... china or earthenware things , with blue sprangs upon them , which were broke , and what was in them was spilled out , which some called one thing and some called another : That he saw great multitudes of papers and parchments on the ...
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... china and other furniture of the house , packed up in bundles and placed in the ticks of beds , which they had emptied , and turned out the feathers for the purpose . That she likewise observed them carry away a great many books ...
... china and other furniture of the house , packed up in bundles and placed in the ticks of beds , which they had emptied , and turned out the feathers for the purpose . That she likewise observed them carry away a great many books ...
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... china , which they threw down and trampled with their guns and their feet . That he went into the private apartment and saw them breaking my Lady's big cabinet , and he saw them in the dressing room and closet where they broke the ...
... china , which they threw down and trampled with their guns and their feet . That he went into the private apartment and saw them breaking my Lady's big cabinet , and he saw them in the dressing room and closet where they broke the ...
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... Chinese ( for books on and in Pidgin - English see under this heading ) Choctaw - v . American Lang . Coptic - v . Egyptian Corean ... Cornish - v . Keltic ... Cree -v . American Lan- Creole guages .. Cuneiform - v . Assyrian ... Danish ...
... Chinese ( for books on and in Pidgin - English see under this heading ) Choctaw - v . American Lang . Coptic - v . Egyptian Corean ... Cornish - v . Keltic ... Cree -v . American Lan- Creole guages .. Cuneiform - v . Assyrian ... Danish ...
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