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* CompositeCharacter: John Balfour is one of Sharp's assassins and is identified as John Balfour of Burley (sic). Historically there ''was'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour,_3rd_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh John Balfour of Burleigh]], who wasn't a covenanter and had nothing to do with the assassination. The real assassin was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour of Kinloch]]. Scott appears to have been confused by the [[NamesTheSame identical names]] rather than actually combining the two historical figures into one character.
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* CompositeCharacter: John Balfour is one of Sharp's assassins and is identified as John Balfour of Burley (sic). Historically there ''was'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour,_3rd_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh John Balfour of Burleigh]], who wasn't a covenanter and had nothing to do with the assassination. The real assassin was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour of Kinloch]]. Scott appears to have been confused by the [[NamesTheSame identical names]] names rather than actually combining the two historical figures into one character.
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* PersecutionFlip: When the Stuarts are on the throne the Covenanters are forced to meet in secret. When William and Mary are on the throne the situation is reversed and the Jacobites are forced to meet in secret.
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* BabiesEverAfter: Cuddie and Jenny have at least three children during the time-skip. In the epilogue it's briefly mentioned that Henry and Edith also had children.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lord Evandale dies, but Basil's death means Lady Margaret regains her lands while Henry and Edith are finally able to marry.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lord Evandale dies, but Basil's death means Lady Margaret regains her lands while Henry and Edith are finally able to marry.]]
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* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Lord Evandale dies]], allowing Henry and Edith to marry.
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* HonourBeforeReason: Lord Evandale plans to join a rebellion he doesn't believe in, on the side of a king he doesn't support, because he feels it's his duty. Edith lampshades how stupid this is.
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* KilledOffscreen: Claverhouse disappears from the story after the time-skip and is briefly mentioned to have been killed.
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* MutualKill: After being shot Burley drags the soldier who shot him into the river and they both drown.
* NeverTrustATitle: Old Mortality appears only once and has nothing to do with the plot.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Cuddie's name is Cuthbert, but virtually no one calls him that.
* NeverTrustATitle: Old Mortality appears only once and has nothing to do with the plot.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Cuddie's name is Cuthbert, but virtually no one calls him that.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Everyone thinks Henry drowned in a shipwreck. He wrote to Edith after his supposed death, but the letter never reached her.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue explains what happened after [[spoiler: Lord Evandale]]'s death: Lady Margaret regained her lands, Henry and Edith married, and Cuddie never told anyone he shot Basil.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: TruthInTelvision, as it's standard practice to refer to aristocrats by their titles rather than their names.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: TruthInTelvision, TruthInTelevision, as it's standard practice to refer to aristocrats by their titles rather than their names.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: TruthInTelvision, as it's standard practice to refer to aristocrats by their titles rather than their names.
** Lord Evandale's name is William Maxwell, but this is mentioned only once and easily overlooked. The rest of the time he's referred to by his title.
** Played with in Claverhouse's case. He's usually called Claverhouse, but his real name (John Grahame) is mentioned too, and Scott sometimes calls him Grahame.
** John Balfour of Burley provides a non-aristocratic version: the narration regularly calls him Burley.
** Lord Evandale's name is William Maxwell, but this is mentioned only once and easily overlooked. The rest of the time he's referred to by his title.
** Played with in Claverhouse's case. He's usually called Claverhouse, but his real name (John Grahame) is mentioned too, and Scott sometimes calls him Grahame.
** John Balfour of Burley provides a non-aristocratic version: the narration regularly calls him Burley.
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* TheFundamentalist: The Covenanters. It's clear Scott wasn't fond of them. Mause in particular gets herself and her son kicked out of every place they could take shelter because of her inability to keep her mouth shut about her opinions.
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* TheFundamentalist: The Covenanters.Covenanters, and especially the Cameronians. It's clear Scott wasn't fond of them. Mause in particular gets herself and her son kicked out of every place they could take shelter because of her inability to keep her mouth shut about her opinions.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Claverhouse sends his nephew Richard Grahame to ask the Covenanters to surrender. Burley shoots him in the middle of his message. This backfires on Burley when it motivates the royalists to avenge Grahame.
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* VillainousRescue: Henry is captured and about to be murdered by [[TheFundamentalist the Cameronians]]. Then he hears horses approaching, Claverhouse arrives with a group of soldiers, and minutes later Henry is free and the Cameronians are prisoners or dead. Cuddie explains that he met Claverhouse while looking for help and told him where he could find a group of rebels.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Covenanters' factional in-fighting dooms any chance they had of success.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Covenanters' factional in-fighting dooms any chance they had of success.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: On the one hand the Covenanters are [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] and mostly unpleasant people to be around. On the other they have legitimate grievances about the way the government's treated them.
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* LoveTriangle: Henry Morton and Edith Bellenden love each other, while Lord Evandale loves Edith.
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* RunningGag: Every time Lady Margaret appears she ''will'' find some way to tell everyone about the time Charles II visited Tillietudlem.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Francis Stewart. Even when he's been stabbed three times and is dying, he takes the time to tell his killer that he isn't afraid to die.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Francis Stewart gets impaled three times, courtesy of John Balfour.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Covenanters are a deconstruction. They're mostly poor farmers with very few weapons and no military training, they're divided by their own disagreements, and with the exception of their first battle they lose badly against the better-armed, better-trained royalist army.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Covenanters are a deconstruction. They're mostly poor farmers with very few weapons and no military training, they're divided by their own disagreements, and with the exception of their first battle they lose badly against the better-armed, better-trained royalist army.
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Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, the story revolves around Henry Morton, a Covenanter's son. Henry gives shelter to John Balfour, a man who turns out to be wanted for the murder of Archbishop James Sharp, and becomes an outlaw as a result. He joins Balfour in the Covenantor uprising and witnesses the Battle of Drumclog, followed by the Covenantors' disintegration and defeat.
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Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, the story revolves around Henry Morton, a Covenanter's son. Henry gives shelter to John Balfour, a man who turns out to be wanted for the murder of Archbishop James Sharp, and becomes an outlaw as a result. He joins Balfour in the Covenantor Covenanter uprising and witnesses the Battle of Drumclog, followed by the Covenantors' Covenanters' disintegration and defeat.
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Francis Stuart/Stewart of Bothwell is said to be descended from and named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Stewart,_5th_Earl_of_Bothwell Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell]].
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Francis Stuart/Stewart Stewart of Bothwell is said to be descended from and named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Stewart,_5th_Earl_of_Bothwell Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell]].
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* TermsOfEndangerment: Francis Stewart refers to strangers as "beloved" while trying to start a fight with them.
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* AffablyEvil: Claverhouse, though Scott doesn't treat him as a full-blown monster.
* CharacterTitle: Well, Character ''Nickname'' Title. "Old Mortality" is the nickname of Robert Paterson, a minor character.
* CharacterTitle: Well, Character ''Nickname'' Title. "Old Mortality" is the nickname of Robert Paterson, a minor character.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Taken to extremes. Scott claims he got the story from Peter Pattieson, who got it from Jedediah Cleishbotham, who got it from Old Mortality.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many of them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour]]
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* TheFundamentalist: The Covenanters. It's clear Scott wasn't fond of them.
* FunetikAksent: Used regularly. Niel Blane's speech is especially incomprehensible.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Francis Stuart/Stewart of Bothwell is said to be descended from and named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Stewart,_5th_Earl_of_Bothwell Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many of them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch JohnBalfour]]Balfour]] (who really did murder [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sharp_(bishop) Archbishop Sharp]]), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Paterson_(stonemason) Old Mortality himself]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham,_1st_Viscount_Dundee John Grahame of Claverhouse]] are some of the most notable ones.
* FunetikAksent: Used regularly. Niel Blane's speech is especially incomprehensible.
* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Francis Stuart/Stewart of Bothwell is said to be descended from and named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Stewart,_5th_Earl_of_Bothwell Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many of them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John
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''Old Mortality'' (originally called ''The Tale of Old Mortality'') is an 1816 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Sir Creator/WalterScott. It's the second in the ''Tales of My Landlord'' series, a subset of the ''Waverley'' novels.
Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, the story revolves around Henry Morton, a Covenanter's son. Henry gives shelter to John Balfour, a man who turns out to be wanted for the murder of Archbishop James Sharp, and becomes an outlaw as a result. He joins Balfour in the Covenantor uprising and witnesses the Battle of Drumclog, followed by the Covenantors' disintegration and defeat.
The novel is in the public domain and available [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6941/6941-h/6941-h.htm on Gutenberg]].
!!''Old Mortality'' contains examples of:
* CompositeCharacter: John Balfour is one of Sharp's assassins and is identified as John Balfour of Burley (sic). Historically there ''was'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour,_3rd_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh John Balfour of Burleigh]], who wasn't a covenanter and had nothing to do with the assassination. The real assassin was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour of Kinloch]]. Scott appears to have been confused by the [[NamesTheSame identical names]] rather than actually combining the two historical figures into one character.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: An odd case. The first chapter is narrated by Jedediah Cleishbotham and is set years after the main plot. From then the narration switches to the third person to follow Henry.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many of them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour]]
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''Old Mortality'' (originally called ''The Tale of Old Mortality'') is an 1816 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Sir Creator/WalterScott. It's the second in the ''Tales of My Landlord'' series, a subset of the ''Waverley'' novels.
Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, the story revolves around Henry Morton, a Covenanter's son. Henry gives shelter to John Balfour, a man who turns out to be wanted for the murder of Archbishop James Sharp, and becomes an outlaw as a result. He joins Balfour in the Covenantor uprising and witnesses the Battle of Drumclog, followed by the Covenantors' disintegration and defeat.
The novel is in the public domain and available [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6941/6941-h/6941-h.htm on Gutenberg]].
!!''Old Mortality'' contains examples of:
* CompositeCharacter: John Balfour is one of Sharp's assassins and is identified as John Balfour of Burley (sic). Historically there ''was'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour,_3rd_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh John Balfour of Burleigh]], who wasn't a covenanter and had nothing to do with the assassination. The real assassin was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour of Kinloch]]. Scott appears to have been confused by the [[NamesTheSame identical names]] rather than actually combining the two historical figures into one character.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: An odd case. The first chapter is narrated by Jedediah Cleishbotham and is set years after the main plot. From then the narration switches to the third person to follow Henry.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Many of them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour]]
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