An enthusiastic preacher in Sir Walter Scott’s Old Mortality.
This was the young preacher Maccaul so hideously tortured in the reign of Charles II. He died “in a rapture.” (See Cassell’s History of England, Charles II., vol. iii. p. 422.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.