Note 433 — REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE: 1702–1714. (continued 3)
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‘The Tinklarian Doctor, in one of his singular pamphlets addressed to the French king, and commencing: “Old Lewis, may it please your majesty,” asks, “I would fain ken, Lewis, if ever you heard of me, for many times I have heard of you, and more in the pulpits than anywhere else; and if you were as oft at your own kirks in France as you are in our pulpits in Scotland, you’d be very sib [akin] to the kirk—so nearest the kirk, nearest the devil.”‘—Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils, p. 74.