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An ... account of the Trial and Sentence of Mary M'Kinnon ... for the murder of William Howat, etc choose

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[Scot] Account of Mary M’Kinnon 50: All you maidens who love the game.
at game, n.
[Scot] Account of Mary M’Kinnon 14: The prisoner was removed from the Calton-hill Gaol to the Lock-up-house. [...] After hanging the usual time, her body was cut down.
at lockup, n.
[Scot] Account of Mary M’Kinnon 49: Now all you Ramblers, in mourning go, / For the Queen of Ramblers must lye low.
at rambler, n.
[Scot] Account of Mary M’Kinnon 52: About the age of thirty-three, I must die upon this fatal tree.
at triple tree, n.
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