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  <dc:title>James Mercer to James Beattie from Glasgow</dc:title>
  <dc:description>On Beattie's directions, Mercer has made inquiry about the state of the brethren in that part of the country. Sir James Campbell who commands the west fencibles says the brethren intend to draw the sword of the Lord if a hair of Lord George Gordon's head is touched. But they have no formidable leader  and the west fencibles should reduce them to reason. As long as he lives, he will never forget the classical and picturesque tour which he and Beattie made three years ago to the Crags of Kinnoull and the Grampian Hills</dc:description>
  <dc:date>3 July 1780</dc:date>
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