OLD MORTALITY

OLD MORTALITY
   a character in Scott's novel of the name, the original of which was one Robert Paterson, who, as related of him, went about the country visiting the churchyards, and renewing the moss-covered tombs of the COVENANTERS (q.v.).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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