Note 48 — Chapter Four
Reading edition
The feeling is common in the north that a laird, or chieftain, getting a vassal’s or clansmen’s wife or daughter with child, is doing her a great honor. Burke.—Letters from an English Gentleman, about 1730.
Reading edition
The feeling is common in the north that a laird, or chieftain, getting a vassal’s or clansmen’s wife or daughter with child, is doing her a great honor. Burke.—Letters from an English Gentleman, about 1730.