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that "Married in May, and kirked in green / Baith bride and bridegroom winna lang be seen". In the case of Wemyss, the ghost is that of a young woman wearing a trailing dress of green silk which rustles as she floats along the corridors within the castle. A news report in 2007 suggested that sightings had ceased in recent years.
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complained about this duty, and in April James VI wrote to him and asked him to bring
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