On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the ...

Gavin Hamilton (1751-1805) was the man who sublet Mossgiel to Burns and his brother Gilbert in 1784. He encouraged Burns to publish his poems, and as a result the Kilmarnock edition is dedicated ...