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OP From same story, one I learned recently here while searching for something else'
The word "of that ilk" meaning of that family. Usually "ilk" has a pejorative tone, not so here.
" Ye maun have heard of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of that ilk, who
lived in these parts before the dear years. "
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