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Rob Roy, the Celebrated Highland Freebooter; or, Memoirs of the Osbaldistone Family.
This is a condensed version of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel (part of the Waverly novel series) Rob Roy, which was originally published in 1817. It appears to have been set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite Rising.
Rosanna; the Oxford tragedy. In two parts.
A young girl from Oxfordshire is courted by a gentleman who persuades her to go out walking with him one day and rapes her. When she discovers she is with child, she writes to him begging him to marry her and save her from the public shame that would…
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, with the happy relief; or, O'er the muir amang the heather. To which are added, All in the taste. Wap your wealth together. Clean paternal seat. Fair Eliza, blooming maid.
A collection of songs and ballads. The first song is the complaint of a young Highland man whose love interest had left him in order to marry Roy of Aldivalloch instead of himself, followed by a second song is a reply that is written from the…
Satan's Invisible World Discovered. Detailing the particulars of Strange Pranks Played by the Devil, together with a particular account of several apparition's, witches, and invisible spirits, to which is added The marvellous history of Major Weir and His Sister.
This chapbook contains excerpts from George Sinclair’s Satan’s Invisible World Discovered, specifically the section detailing the life and crimes of Major Thomas Weir—a seventeenth-century minister, preacher, and conventicler—and his sister, who were…
