Crossword-Solution: WRIGHTS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

His wife was Jean, daughter of David Lillie, a builder in Glasgow, and several times ‘Deacon of the Wrights’: the date of the marriage has not reached me; but on 8th June 1772, when Robert, the only child of the union, was born, the husband and father had scarce passed, or had not yet attained, his twentieth year.

And thus he spoke: "Do not yourself affright! Yield to Carlun, that is so big with pride, Faithful service, his friend and his ally; Lions and bears and hounds for him provide, Thousand mewed hawks, sev'n hundred camelry; Silver and gold, four hundred mules load high; Fifty wagons his wrights will need supply, Till with that wealth he pays his soldiery.

Jean Lillie, our double great-grandmother, the daughter of David Lillie, sometime Deacon of the Wrights, married, first, Alan Stevenson, who died May 26, 1774, ‘at Santt Kittes of a fiver,’ by whom she had Robert Stevenson, born 8th June 1772; and, second, in May or June 1787, Thomas Smith, a widower, and already the father of our grandmother.

And round the square worked the ship-wrights, as many in number as ants, twining ropes, and hewing timber, and smoothing long yards and oars.

Stevenson Deacon Brodie Beau Austin Admiral Guinea Robert Macaire [Picture: Decorative graphic] London William Heinemann 1907 * * * * * _Copyright_ _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS PAGE DEACON BRODIE 1 BEAU AUSTIN 111 ADMIRAL GUINEA 177 ROBERT MACAIRE 251 DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX PERSONS REPRESENTED WILLIAM BRODIE, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreaker and Master Carpenter.