Chapter Bells tolled Backwards to Bellerophon of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Miss Edith Bellenden, granddaughter of lady Margaret, betrothed to lord Evendale, of the king’s army, but in love with Morton (a leader of the Covenanters, and the hero of the novel). After the death of lord Evendale, who is shot by Balfour, Edith marries Morton, and this terminates the tale.—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality (time, Charles II.).

Bellerophon, son of G l aucos. A kind of Joseph, who refused the amorous solicitations of Antea, wife of Prœtos king of Argos. Antea accused him of attempting to dishonour her, and Prœtos sent him into Lycia with letters desiring his destruction. Accordingly, he was set several enterprises full of hazard, which, however, he surmounted. In later life he tried to mount up to heaven on the winged horse Pegasus, but fell, and wandered about the Aleian plains till he died.—Homer: Iliad, vi.

As once
Bellerophon … dismounted in the Aleian field …
Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, vii. 17, etc. (1665).

Letters of Bellerophon, a treacherous letter, pretending to recommend the bearer, but in reality denouncing him; like the letter sent by Prœtos to the king of Lycia, requesting him to kill the bearer (Bellerophon).

Pausanias the Spartan, in his treasonable correspondence with Xerxes, sent several such letters. At last the bearer bethought that none of the persons sent ever returned; and, opening the letter, found it contained directions for his own death. It was shown to the ephors, and Pausanias in alarm fled to a temple, where he was starved to death.

De Lacy, being sent by king John against De Courcy, was informed by two of the servants that their master always laid aside his armour on Good Friday. De Lacy made his attack on that day, and sent De Courcy prisoner to London. The two servants now asked De Lacy for passports from Ireland and England, and De Lacy gave them Letters of Bellerophon, exhorting “all to whom these presents come to spit on the faces of the bearers, drive them forth as hounds, and use them as it behoved the betrayers of their masters to be treated.”—Cameos of English History (“Conquest of Ireland”).

The Letter of Uriah (2 Sam. xi. 14) was of a similar character. It pretended to be one of friendship, but was in reality a death-warrant.