Volume 1
Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers.
- Robert Chambers
- Date:
- 1858-1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![upon the sides of the houses; and great ships therein could not leas. be keepit, with aU their anchors and cables, from doing great skaith, ilk ane to ane other, whereof the like was never heard teU of in our days. Sundry mariners, keeping their ships [fra] skaith, were hurt themselves, and in special James Langlands and Kobert Dury, two masters of ships, veiy expert in that art, were baith cast away, working for the relief of their awn ships.’—Jo. H. ‘ The like harm was done in sundry other parts upon the coast along the Firth, in Saltpreston, Kirkcaldy, Ardross, and other pai’ts. Salt-pans were overthrown, ships and boats broken, coal- heughs beside Culross drowned: The like of this tempest was not seen in our time, nor the like of it heard in this country in any age preceding. It was taken by all men to be a forerunner of some great alteration. And, indeed, the day following—to wit, the last of March—sure report was brought hither from court, that the king departed this life, the Lord’s day before, the 27th of March.’ —Cal. This was long after remembered as the storm of the Borrowing Days, such being a popular appellation for the last three days of March, as expressed in a well-known popular rhyme. It is a proverbial observation of the weather, which seems to be justified by fact, the bad weather being connected END OF VOL. I. Edinburgh: Printed by W. and R, Chambcrfl.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24886658_0001_0569.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
