CHAPTER XVIII.  

  CHAPTER XIX.  

  CHAPTER XX.  

  CHAPTER XXI.  

  CHAPTER XXII.  

  CHAPTER XXIII.  

  IV. APPENDIX.  

  No. II.  

  V. NOTES.  

  Note I.—FIDES ET FIDUCIA SUNT RELATIVA.          

  Note II.—WRAITHS.  

   

    

       I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.     

       The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman fell.     

       Our subject leads us to talk of deadly feuds, and we must begin with one still more ancient than that to which our story relates. During the reign of James IV., a great feud between the powerful families of Drummond and Murray divided Perthshire. The former, being the most numerous and powerful, cooped up eight score of the Murrays in the kirk of Monivaird, and set fire to it. The wives and the children of the ill-fated men, who had also found shelter in the church, perished by the same conflagration. One man, named David Murray, escaped by the humanity of one of the Drummonds, who received him in his arms as he leaped from amongst the   

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