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  • * These circumstances, it must be confessed, go some length towards ex - tenuating Morton's guilt; and, though his apology for the favour he had shewn to Archibald Douglas, whom he knew to be one of the conspirators, be far less satisfactory, no uneasy reflections seem to have disquieted his own mind on that account.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges 1812

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