Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Macbriar

(Ephraim). 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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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