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These Mowbrays of St. Ronan's seem to have bcen at one time a ve powerful family. They were allied to and friendso the house of en las. At the time when the overgrown power of that eroic race made the Stewarts tremble on the Scottish throne. It fol lowed that. Whe as our; old not historian expresses ir._ no one da to strivewit a Douglas. Nor yet With a Douglas's man, for if he did. He was sure to come by theowaur. The family of St. Ronan's shared their prospentt'. And became lords d almost the whole of the rich val e 'of which their mansion commanded the pros t. Ut upon the turning of the tide. In the reign 0 James II they became despoiled of the greater part of thees fair acquisitions, and succeeding events used their importance still further. Never thtlesa. Thc were. In the middle of the seventeenth century. An a family of considerable note; and Sir Reginald Newman-after the unhappy battle of Dun bar. Distinguished himself by the obstinate defence of the Castle against the arms of Cromwell, who. In censed at thc opposition which had unexpectedly encounte in an obscure corner. Caused the fortress to be dismantled and blown its: wuh gunpowder.
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These Mowbrays of St. Ronan's seem to have bcen at one time a ve powerful family. They were allied to and friendso the house of en las. At the time when the overgrown power of that eroic race made the Stewarts tremble on the Scottish throne. It fol lowed that. Whe as our; old not historian expresses ir._ no one da to strivewit a Douglas. Nor yet With a Douglas's man, for if he did. He was sure to come by theowaur. The family of St. Ronan's shared their prospentt'. And became lords d almost the whole of the rich val e 'of which their mansion commanded the pros t. Ut upon the turning of the tide. In the reign 0 James II they became despoiled of the greater part of thees fair acquisitions, and succeeding events used their importance still further. Never thtlesa. Thc were. In the middle of the seventeenth century. An a family of considerable note; and Sir Reginald Newman-after the unhappy battle of Dun bar. Distinguished himself by the obstinate defence of the Castle against the arms of Cromwell, who. In censed at thc opposition which had unexpectedly encounte in an obscure corner. Caused the fortress to be dismantled and blown its: wuh gunpowder.
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