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bared not even t^le furniture more immediately confecrated to
■¡vine worlhip. But due vengeance overtook them ; for in a
lorm which inftantly followed, many of them perifhed | thofe who
leaped, ftruck with the juftice of the judgment, vowed to make
imple recompence to the injured faint. The tempeft ceafed ; and
'ey made the promifed atonement*.
j The Danijh monument, figured by Sir Robert Sibbald, lies on the
fouth-eaft fide of the building, on a rifing ground. It is of a rigid
Arm, and the furface ornamented with fcale-like figures. At
|ch end is the reprefentation of a human head.
ethius gives, this iiland the name of Emonia, from Y morn, or
Ihe ifle of Mona,
I After leaving this place, fee, on the left, Dmibrijel -, the feat
§)f the Earl of, Murray, In 1592 this was the fcene of the cruel
Knurder of the bonny, or the handfome earl, whofe charms were
luppofedto have engaged the heart of Anne o f Denmark, and to
ihave excited the jealouiy of her royal ipouie. The former at leaib.
Las the popular notion of the time..
He was a braw gallant
And he play’d at the gluve :
And the bonny Earl o f Murray9
Oh ! he was the (Jueenes love.
Political reafons were given for his arreftj but more than an
jarred feems to have been intended, for the commifiion was entrufted
po his inveterate enemy. Huntly, who, with a number of armed
pen, furrounding the houfe in a dark night, fet it on fire, on
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D u n i b r i s s e l .
* Boethius, lib. X V . p. 319.
E e Murray's