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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
174
On
Tweedmouth
Moor,
it
is
narrated,
she
fell
in
with
the
postboy,
who,
under
threats
of
immediate
death,
gave
up
his
charge,
Grizel
riding
off
with
the
mail-packet
and
the
postboy's
horse,
from
which
he
had
been
unseated.
Under
these
circumstances,
the
warrant
not
reaching
its
destination,
it
could
not
be
put
into
execution,
and
the
delay
which
took
place
before
another
could
be
procured,
was
turned
to
account
by
Sir
John's
friends,
who
exerted
themselves
on
his
behalf.
Sir
John
was
the
younger
son
of
a
rich
family,
from
whom
a
ransom
was
to
be
had;
and
it
is
stated
that
a
bribe
of
L5000
by
Lord
Dundonald,
Cochrane's
father,
to
the
priests
of
the
Royal
household,
was
the
means
of
securing
a
pardon.
Sir
John
lived
to
become
Earl
of
Dundonald,
while
Grizel
became
the
wife
of
John
Kerr
of
Morriston,
in
Berwickshire;
and
there
can
be
little
doubt
that
she
afterwards
exhibited
as
a
wife
all
the
amiable
and
affectionate
qualities
of
which
she
proved
herself
possessed
as
a
daughter.
Unfortunately
for
the
authenticity
of
the
story,
so
far
as
Grizel
Cochrane's
connection
with
it
is
concerned,
the
dates
hardly
bear
the
matter
out;
for
if
Sir
John
was
lodged
in
the
Tolbooth
of
Edinburgh
on
the
3d
of
July,
a
warrant
for
his
execution
could
barely
have
reached
Northumberland
from
London
by
the
7th:
and
again,
while
the
story
relates
that
Sir
John
Cochrane
was
confined
in
the
Tolbooth,
Macaulay
states
that
he
"was
taken,
and
sent
up
to
London."
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