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Randolph. Randolph sent a copy of an inscription, "APOLLONI GRANNO Q. L. SABINIANUS PROC. AUG" to Cecil. This "proud and blasphemous superscription" was first published by
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delivered a royal jewel, a tablet or locket with a diamond and an emerald, to Clark, as a pledge for a loan of 6,000
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secured on more of the queen's jewels. Grange used the money to pay the wages of the garrison of
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of Caldhame. His first wife was Katherine Henrysoun.
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492:(Edinburgh, 1815), pp. 310-12: James Marwick,
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