[It is very probable. Some of the crew of this renowned pirate
were captured at Sark. See Michel's Introduction to the _Roman
d'Eustache le Moine_, 8vo. 1834, where copies of most of our
records, and of the passages in our early historians, in which
Eustace is mentioned, have been collected with great care.]
_Mas._--I inquired what was the meaning of Mass Robert Fleming, and I
partly answer my own question, by saying that Cameronian preachers were
so styled, or rather Mas with one "s" before their Christian names,--as
Mas David Williamson, Mas John King: see John Creichton's _Memoirs_. But
I ask again, how the title arises, and whether it is short for master?