They fixed his Skeleton to a Gibbet, upon that of an Oxe, because he had been a Cowstealer; they made Shoes of his Skin, and a Shirt of his Bowels.
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Cowstealer
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"They find it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession."
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A Cowstealer's Trick.—“Some cowstealers will make a hole in a hott lofe newly drawn out of the oven, and putt it on an oxe's horn for a convenient time, and then they can turn their softned hornes the contrary way, so that the owner cannot [identify them].
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[…] MCHWOIL, DONALD, a cowstealer, who was banished to the Plantations, at Inverness ...
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