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The Collector.

THE COLLECTOR .

No . IT . MEMOIR RESPECTING WILLIAM SUTHERLAND , GKANDSON TO HECTOR . KOBE , OF I . AN'GWELL . *

A BOUT the end of the fifteenth century , HECTOR StmrfeKiAN-n , " ^ -commonly called HECTOB MOBE , or Meikle Hector , was proprietor of the estate of LA-NGWELL . He was descended of the family of DUFFUS , and resided in a castle on the rock at the water mouth of Bern dale , the ruins of which are still visible . He built a house at Langwell for his eldest son William , who married a beautiful

woman , and resided there . Some little time afterwards , William ' s wife was in childbed of her first child , and Robeit Gun , tacksman of Braemore , came over the hills to Langwell , accompanied by some of his clan , on a hunting party . Robert Gun proposed to his friends that they should pay a visit to Hector More ' s son and his young wifewhich they

according-, ly did . Robert Gun , upon seeimr the woman in bed , fancied her . ' Upon their way home , Gun declared to his companions , that he would have William Sutherland's wife to himself , and that the only means by which he could accomplish his design , was to take away her husband ' s life . His friends , whose consciences were not more strait-laced than his own , having approved of his intention , they

accompanied him the next day over the hills , and lay in ambush in the woods near William Sutherland's house , until they observed him come out to his garden , when Robert Gun shot him ivith an arrow from his bow . They went immediately into his house , took his wife put of bed , and carried her and her infant child , in a large basket they had prepared for that purpose , to Braemore , where Gun resided . No sooner was the mother recovered than she was reconciled to Robert

Gun , notwithstanding of his murdering her husband . She begged of him to call her infant son William , after his deceased father , though she knew , had her husband been alive , he would have named him HECTOK , after his father , Hector More . R . obert Gun held the lands of Braemore of the Earl of Caithness in tack , but he would pay no rent to his lordship . After being much in arrears to the Earl , his lordship sent John Sinclair of Stircock , with a party of nwn under arms , to compel Gun to make payment ; but Gun convened his clan ,

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LONDON: Article 2
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF MR. WILLIAM WHITE. Article 4
ADDENDA TO THE MEMOIR OF MR. THOMAS HULL, Article 5
ON THE PECULIAR EXCELLENCIES OF HANDEL'S MUSIC. Article 6
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES FOR 1797. Article 7
CURSORY REMARKS ON SHAKSPEARE'S MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Article 10
THE COLLECTOR. Article 12
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE; Article 18
A BRIEF SYSTEM OF CONCHOLOGY. Article 22
DESCRIPTION OF THE PEAK OF TENERIFFE. Article 26
ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE SLEEP-WALKER. Article 30
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 34
OPINIONS CONCERNING MASONRY. WITH THE CHARACTER OP A TRUE FREEMASON. Article 36
A CHARGE Article 37
A VINDICATION OF MASONRY. Article 40
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 41
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND. Article 41
REVIEW OP NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 42
POETRY. Article 50
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 54
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 57
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 62
OBITUARY. Article 70
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 73
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The Collector.

THE COLLECTOR .

No . IT . MEMOIR RESPECTING WILLIAM SUTHERLAND , GKANDSON TO HECTOR . KOBE , OF I . AN'GWELL . *

A BOUT the end of the fifteenth century , HECTOR StmrfeKiAN-n , " ^ -commonly called HECTOB MOBE , or Meikle Hector , was proprietor of the estate of LA-NGWELL . He was descended of the family of DUFFUS , and resided in a castle on the rock at the water mouth of Bern dale , the ruins of which are still visible . He built a house at Langwell for his eldest son William , who married a beautiful

woman , and resided there . Some little time afterwards , William ' s wife was in childbed of her first child , and Robeit Gun , tacksman of Braemore , came over the hills to Langwell , accompanied by some of his clan , on a hunting party . Robert Gun proposed to his friends that they should pay a visit to Hector More ' s son and his young wifewhich they

according-, ly did . Robert Gun , upon seeimr the woman in bed , fancied her . ' Upon their way home , Gun declared to his companions , that he would have William Sutherland's wife to himself , and that the only means by which he could accomplish his design , was to take away her husband ' s life . His friends , whose consciences were not more strait-laced than his own , having approved of his intention , they

accompanied him the next day over the hills , and lay in ambush in the woods near William Sutherland's house , until they observed him come out to his garden , when Robert Gun shot him ivith an arrow from his bow . They went immediately into his house , took his wife put of bed , and carried her and her infant child , in a large basket they had prepared for that purpose , to Braemore , where Gun resided . No sooner was the mother recovered than she was reconciled to Robert

Gun , notwithstanding of his murdering her husband . She begged of him to call her infant son William , after his deceased father , though she knew , had her husband been alive , he would have named him HECTOK , after his father , Hector More . R . obert Gun held the lands of Braemore of the Earl of Caithness in tack , but he would pay no rent to his lordship . After being much in arrears to the Earl , his lordship sent John Sinclair of Stircock , with a party of nwn under arms , to compel Gun to make payment ; but Gun convened his clan ,

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