E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Macbriar (Ephraim).
An enthusiastic preacher in Sir Walter Scott’s Old Mortality.
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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.)
