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Zealous Brethren caused a paper to be affixed upon the gates and posts," and so on.

The paper so promulgated purported to be a warning from the poor of Scotland that, before Whitsunday, "we, the lawful proprietors," will eject the Friars and residents on the property, unlawfully withheld by the religious--"our patrimony." This feat will be performed, "with the help of God, _and assistance of his Saints on earth, of whose ready support we doubt not_." As the Saints, in fact, were the "Zealous Brether.

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