THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
•; A MIXED FOURSOME AND ITS .;.'._. SEQUEL. The following is an incident which took place some three hundred years ago, vor)> probably after an exciting foursome between Thomas Kirkwood, John Allan's wife, Thomas Edeuin, and his nife. Feelingimiist have run high, as the match appears to have ended in a riot:—"lt was ■found by the Dailies that Thomas Edeuin troubled Thomas Kirkwood and struck at him with a golf club, and hurt John Ajlijn s wife with that stroke, and thereafter drew a knifo to him and hurt his own wife therewith to the cffusio'nof her blond,, and also that his wife scolded the Miid/l'Jiomas, called him 'thief,- , that she should sec his blood cold on the causeway (road); and ordains the said Thomas l-Meuin and his wife to ask the said Thomas Kirkwood's forgiveness, and also ordains the said Thomas Kd?uih lo remain in ward while ho find surely for his unlaw fiii|l "blfiodwytc." "Blood Wyles" are. defined by' authorities as riots to Ihe effusion of biood; from the word "wyle," .an old Saxon word meaning "blame"—much used by old Lowlaud.Scots people lo this day.'
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 3
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189THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 3
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