... tyme to tyme did resort there; its shipping seized or lost; its few remaining burgesses taxed till they were beggared and bankrupt—through all this the “braif toun” of the earlier Letters has now become “ this poore distressit toune,” and its people “the ...

... Their object is to inform representa- wa. . ntg ma\:bo cancelled if the ow = tives of the British Government of the dieé goes bankrupt, is invol :d°~ e proposals they have made to the Persian ' g.andal. or if the pSéwérei no ‘;1 oy ta Government for _a settlement ...