Chapter XXXI: Part 31

On a petition, the Privy Council commuted the sentence to scourging
through the town of Perth, and banishment to the plantations.[228]

Footnote 227:

Published in 1702.

Footnote 228:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 229:

_Coltness Collections._

Footnote 230:

_Polit. Works of A. Fletcher_, edit. 1749, p. 85.

Footnote 231:

Privy Council Record. Fountainhall’s _Decisions_.

Footnote 232:

_Scots Acts_, iii. 628.

Footnote 233:

[Leslie’s] _Survey of the Province of Moray_, p. 280.

Footnote 234:

The father of the present Earl of Stair, Sir John Dalrymple, was born
in 1726, and might have heard these particulars from his grand-uncle,
the second President Dalrymple, who died in 1737. Sir John’s _Memoirs
of Great Britain_ are here followed, therefore, as the best authority
available.

Footnote 235:

Dalrymple’s _Memoirs_.

Footnote 236:

_Memoirs of John Macky, Esq._, 1733, p. 205.

Footnote 237:

_Acts of S. Parl._, x. 136. Wodrow’s _History_, i. 320.

Footnote 238:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 239:

Ibid.

Footnote 240:

This gentleman, who became Earl of Hopetoun, first of the title, was
married, on the 31st August 1699, to ‘the very vertuous Lady Henrietta
Johnston,’ daughter of the Earl of Annandale. A congratulatory poem on
the occasion contains the following passage:

May Hopetoun flourish still with Lady Hen-
Rietta, and have a stock of good childrén.[241]

Footnote 241:

_Wodrow Pamphlets_, Adv. Lib.

Footnote 242:

See _Blackwood’s Magazine_, ix. 345.

Footnote 243:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 244:

Ibid.

Footnote 245:

Of this fact, the use of the word _siller_ for money generally in
Scotland is a notable memorial.

Footnote 246:

_Account of Bank of Scotland_, p. 6.

Footnote 247:

_Letter of Earl of Argyle_, _Carstares Papers_, 458.

Footnote 248:

James Donaldson seems to have been engaged in the poetic elegy trade;
that is, the writing of deplorations in verse on great personages for
sale in the streets: see an example of his verse of this description
under November 1695. He seems also to have been the author of
_Husbandry Anatomised, or an Enquiry into the Present Manner of
Tilling and Manuring the Ground in Scotland_, 12mo, 1697; and of _A
Picktooth for Swearers, or a Looking-glass for Atheists and Profane
Persons_, &c., small 4to, 1698. See _Scottish Elegiac Verses, with
Notes_, 1847.

Footnote 249:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 250:

Ibid.

Footnote 251:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 252:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 253:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 254:

The Lord Rankeillor who assisted in giving things this favourable turn
was paternal grandfather of Dr John Hope, well known towards the close
of the last century as Professor of Botany in the Edinburgh
University.

Footnote 255:

Quoted in _Scots Magazine_, Jan. 1810, ‘from a collection of pamphlets
in the possession of Mr Blackwood.’

Footnote 256:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 257:

The irascible temper of Fletcher is well known, and his slaughter of
an associate in the Monmouth expedition is a historical fact. A
strange story is told of him in Mrs Calderwood of Polton’s account of
her journey in Holland (_Coltness Collections_). ‘Salton,’ she says,
‘could not endure the smoke of toback, and as he was in a night-scoot
[in Holland] the skipper and he fell out about his forbidding him to
smoke. Salton, finding he could not hinder him, went up and sat on the
ridge of the boat, which bows like an arch. The skipper was so
contentious that he followed him, and on whatever side Salton sat, he
put his pipe in the check next him, and whiffed in his face. Salton
went down several times and brought up stones in his pocket from the
ballast, and slipped them into the skipper’s pocket that was next the
water, and when he found he had loadened him as much as would sink
him, he gives him a shove, so that over he hirsled. The boat went on,
and Salton came down among the rest of the passengers, who probably
were asleep, and fell asleep among the rest. In a little time, bump
came the scoot against the side, on which they all damned the skipper;
but, behold, when they called, there was no skipper; which would breed
no great amazement in a Dutch company.’

Footnote 258:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 259:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 260:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 261:

Ibid.

Footnote 262:

_Criminal Proceedings_, MS. Ant. Soc.

Footnote 263:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 264:

_Act. Parl._ x. 284.

Footnote 265:

Letter of Mr Duncan Forbes of Culloden (father of the President).
_Culloden Papers._

Footnote 266:

_Memoirs of Elizabeth West._ Edinburgh, 1733.

Footnote 267:

D. Forbes’s Letter, _ut supra_.

Footnote 268:

_Treatise on the Sanctification of the Lord’s Day._

Footnote 269:

Maitland’s _History of Edinburgh_, p. 202.

Footnote 270:

_Elizabeth West._

Footnote 271:

_Coltness Collections._

Footnote 272:

_Historical Account of the Bank of Scotland_, 4to, p. 6.

Footnote 273:

_Diary of David Hume of Crossrig_, p. 69.

Footnote 274:

_Account of Bank of Scotland_, p. 7.

Footnote 275:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 276:

As to the troubles from the Coldingham meeting-house, see under March
24, 1694.

Footnote 277:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 278:

A _quaigh_ or drinking-cup.

Footnote 279:

Alluding to a controversy between two of the Aberdeen professors on a
question which we have seen revived in great fervour in our own day.

Footnote 280:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 281:

Alexander Duff was descended from a race of gentry in Morayshire—the
Duffs of Muldavit—and it stems to have been by saving, prudence, and
good management that he was enabled to increase his share of the
family possessions, and so far advance the prospects of his house,
that it was ennobled in the next generation, and now ranks among the
eight or ten families of highest wealth in Scotland. There is a
characteristic story about Braco surveying one day an extensive tract
of country containing several tolerable lairdships, when, seeing the
houses in various directions all giving out signs of being inhabited
by their respective families, he said: ‘A’ that reek sall come out o’
ae lum yet!’ and he made good his word by ultimately buying up the
whole of that district.

Footnote 282:

The above narration appeared in the _Dumfries Journal_ (newspaper).

Footnote 283:

The system of _culreach_ or repledgiation was one of great antiquity
in Scotland, but last heard of in the Highlands. So lately as 1698,
George Earl of Cromarty obtained a charter, giving him this among
other powers: If any of the indwellers and tenants of his lands should
happen ‘to be arrested or attached before any judge or judges,
spiritual or temporal, in any time coming, to repledge and call them
back to the privilege and liberty of the said court of bailiery and
regality of Tarbat.’

Footnote 284:

Documents of the process in Spalding Club Miscellany, iii. 175.

Footnote 285:

Burns’s fine ode on Macpherson will be remembered:

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantonly gaed he,
He played a spring and danced it round,
Beneath the gallows tree.

There was, however, an earlier celebration of the robber’s hardihood
on a broadside, a copy of which will be found in Herd’s _Collection of
Scottish Songs_ (1776). See also a curious volume, entitled _Scottish
Ballads and Songs_ (Edinburgh, T. G. Stevenson, 1859).

A long two-handed sword is shewn in Duff House, the seat of the Earl
of Fife, as that of Macpherson. It is a formidable weapon, 4 feet 3
inches long, and having a wavy-edged blade. It is obviously a mediæval
weapon, yet, of course, may have been used in a later age.

_March 4, 1701._—There was a petition to the Privy Council from Peter
and Donald Brown, prisoners in the Tolbooth of Banff, representing
that they had been condemned solely as ‘repute vagabond Egyptians,’ to
be hanged on the 2d April. They claimed a longer day, ‘either for
their relief or due preparation;’ and the Lords granted reprieve till
the second Wednesday of June.

Footnote 286:

_Edinburgh Encyclopædia_, article ‘Steam-engine.’

Footnote 287:

_Acts of S. Parl._, x. 267.

Footnote 288:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 289:

See a more remarkable case of the disappearance of a gentleman under
March 1709.

Footnote 290:

See account for ‘Mrs Margaret’s wadding-cloaths,’ given in full in the
_Edinburgh Magazine_ for October 1817.

Footnote 291:

Memoir by Elizabeth Mure of Caldwell [a lady who died in 1795, at the
age of eighty-one], _Caldwell Papers_, i. 264.

Footnote 292:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 293:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 294:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii.

Footnote 295:

It was an old mode of advertisement in country towns, down to the
author’s early years, to send an old woman through the streets with a
wooden dish and a stick, to _clap_ or beat upon it so as to gather a
crowd, before whom she then gave her recital.

Footnote 296:

_Analecta_, i. 10.

Footnote 297:

Sir John had entered at the bar in the preceding year, and it is not
improbable that he came into acquaintance with Steuart in a
professional capacity.

Footnote 298:

Copy of the sentence printed in Wilson’s _Prehistoric Annals of
Scotland_, from one in the possession of the late Alexander Macdonald,
Esq.

Footnote 299:

That is, the eighteenth century.

Footnote 300:

[Sinclair’s] _Stat. Acc. of Scot._, xviii. 578.

Footnote 301:

Collection of papers in Oxenford Castle.

Footnote 302:

_Ed. Ev. Courant_, Nov. 21, 1743.

Footnote 303:

Alluding, probably, to the affair of the Impostor Roderick. See under
June 1, 1697.

Footnote 304:

_Copy of a Letter anent a Project for Erecting a Library in every
Presbytery, or at least County, in the Highlands, from a Reverend
Minister of the Scots Nation, now in England, to a Minister in
Edinburgh._ Edinburgh, 1702. Small 4to, 6 leaves.

Footnote 305:

Wodrow Pamphlets, vol. xciii.

Footnote 306:

_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 366; iv. 235.

Footnote 307:

Anderson’s _Prize Essay on the State of Knowledge in the Highlands_.

Footnote 308:

See under October 6, 1697.

Footnote 309:

A district on the south side of Loch Ness, in Inverness-shire.

Footnote 310:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 311:

The daughter of the late peer.

Footnote 312:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 313:

Mr Campbell had, in 1709, an action at law against Mungo Campbell of
Netherplace, for recovery of fifty pounds which he charged for
attendance upon him, and performance of the operation of lithotomy. It
was represented on the other side that he had done his work with an
unskilfulness which resulted in some most distressing injuries to his
patient, and the Lords held that the seventeen guineas already paid
was guerdon sufficient.—Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 510.

Footnote 314:

Dalyell’s _Musical Memoirs of Scotland_, p. 132.

Footnote 315:

_Edinburgh Evening Courant._

Footnote 316:

_Edinburgh Evening Courant_, December 30, 1725.

Footnote 317:

_Edinburgh Evening Courant._

Footnote 318:

From a description of the presbytery of Penpont, App. to Symson’s
_History of Galloway_. Edin. 1823.

Footnote 319:

A fairy legend connected with the Dow Loch, and illustrating the
superstitious feeling with which it was regarded, has been
communicated by a friend:

‘The farmer of Auchen Naight, near the Dow Loch, was not in opulent
circumstances. One day, during the pressure of some unusual calamity,
he noticed, to his surprise, a cow browsing tranquilly by the side of
the lake, and, on nearer inspection, found it to be a beautiful animal
of large size, and perfectly white. She allowed herself to be driven
home by him without resistance, and soon commended herself greatly to
his wife by her tameness and exceeding opulence in milk. The result of
her good qualities, and also her fruitfulness, was that a blessing
seemed to have come with her to his house. He became rich in the
possession of a herd of twenty fine cattle, all descended from the
original White Cow.

‘After some years had elapsed, and all his other cattle had been used
up, the goodman had to consider how he was to provide a winter’s
“mart” for his family—that is, a bullock to be killed and salted
according to the then universal practice of the country. Should it be
the mother or one of her comely daughters? The former was still in
fine condition, highly suitable for the purpose; but then the feeling
connected with her—should they sacrifice in this manner the source of
all their good-fortune? A consideration that she might fail in health,
and be lost to them, determined them to make her the mart of the year.
It is said that, on the morning which was to be her last, she shewed
the usual affection to her mistress, who came to bid her a mournful
farewell; but when the butcher approached with his rope and axe, she
suddenly tore up the stake, and broke away from the byre, followed by
the whole of her progeny. The astonished goodman and his wife were
only in time to see the herd, in which their wealth consisted, plunge
into the waters of the Dow Loch, from which they never re-emerged.’

Footnote 320:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 321:

His lordship died in 1714.

Footnote 322:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 323:

_Caledonia_, i. 881, _note_.

Footnote 324:

Arnot’s _Hist. Edinburgh_, 4to, p. 195. It would appear that the
combativeness of the cock furnished in those days no insignificant
part of the amusements of the English people. We find in the London
newspapers of March 1720, the following paragraph, speaking strongly
of the prevalence of the sport: ‘On the last Monday of the month,
there will be kept a famous _cocking_ betwixt the gentlemen of
Shropshire and Cheshire, at Mr George Smith’s, at the Red Lion, at
Whitchurch.’

Footnote 325:

_Reliquiæ Scoticæ_ (Edin. 1828).

Footnote 326:

[Sinclair’s] _Stat. Acc. Scot._ iii. 378.

Footnote 327:

This tourist’s manuscript, after lying for many years in the
possession of Mr Johnes of Hafod, was printed by Mr Blackwood of
Edinburgh in 1818.

Footnote 328:

_Dom. Ann. of Scotland_, ii. 494.

Footnote 329:

_Ibid._ ii. 282.

Footnote 330:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 331:

A term expressive of a tough, lean person.

Footnote 332:

_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, i. 68.

Footnote 333:

Ibid. ii. 318.

Footnote 334:

Ibid. ii. 401.

Footnote 335:

_Letters of Lady Margaret Burnett_, Edinburgh, 4to, 1828, p. 63.

Footnote 336:

_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 66, 221.

Footnote 337:

EDINBURGH, _December 6, 1725_.—‘Died Alexander Nisbet of that Ilk, so
well known by being author of several elaborate Treatises of Heraldry,
one of which treatises is now at the press, and will be shortly
published, the author having finished the manuscript long before his
death.’—_Edinburgh Evening Courant._

Footnote 338:

_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 85.

Footnote 339:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 203.

Footnote 340:

By Andrew Bell in Cornhill, London.

Footnote 341:

Boswell. _Tour to the Hebrides_, p. 401.

Footnote 342:

Anderson’s _Hist. Fam. of Fraser_, p. 110.

Footnote 343:

_Miscellanies_, p. 189.

Footnote 344:

John Brand, in his _Description of Orkney and Zetland_, 1703, says,
with reference to the population of the latter group of islands: ‘Not
above forty or fifty years ago, almost every family had a Browny, or
evil spirit so called, which served them, to whom they gave a
sacrifice for his service; as, when they churned their milk, they took
a part thereof, and sprinkled every corner of the house with it for
Browny’s use; likewise, when they brewed, they had a stone, which they
called _Browny’s Stone_, wherein there was a little hole, into which
they poured some wort for a sacrifice to Browny. My informer, a
minister in the country, told me that he had conversed with an old
man, who, when young, used to brew, and sometimes read upon his Bible,
to whom an old woman in the house said, that Browny was displeased
with that book he read upon, which if he continued to do, they would
get no more service of Browny. But he being better instructed from
that book, which was Browny’s eyesore, and the object of his wrath,
when he brewed he would not suffer any sacrifice to be given to
Browny, whereupon the first and second brewings were spilt, and for no
use; though the wort worked well, yet in a little time it left off
working, and grew cold; but of the _third_ browst or brewing he had
ale very good, though he would not give any sacrifice to Browny, with
whom they were no more troubled. I had also from the same informer,
that a lady in Unst, now deceased, told him that when she first took
up house, she refused to give a sacrifice to Browny; upon which the
first and second brewings misgave, but the third was good, and Browny
not being regarded nor rewarded, as formerly he had been, abandoned
his wonted service. They also had stacks of corn called _Browny’s
Stacks_, which, though they were not bound with straw-ropes, or any
way fenced, as other stacks use to be, yet the greatest storm of wind
was not able to blow any straw off them.

‘Now, I do not hear of any such appearances the devil makes in these
isles, so great and many are the blessings which attend a Gospel
dispensation.’

Footnote 345:

Harrington’s _Nugæ Antiquæ_, by Park, 2 vols. 1804, i. 369.

Footnote 346:

_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_, 4to (Abbotsford Club), 1842,
p. 24.

Footnote 347:

This investigation occurred in the year 1665.

Footnote 348:

Identical with Charles Hope of Hopetoun introduced under December 22,
1698.

Footnote 349:

Original document quoted and abridged in a volume called _The Court of
Session Garland_. Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson. 1839.

Footnote 350:

_Analecta_, iii. 364.

Footnote 351:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 125.

Footnote 352:

See _Court of Session Garland_, p. 20.

Footnote 353:

Published in 1754.

Footnote 354:

Brewster’s _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_, art. ‘Burnett, James.’

Footnote 355:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 356:

Petition against Mr Greenshields, 1709, Defoe’s _History of the
Union_, p. 21.

Footnote 357:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 358:

Minutes of the Session of Torryburn, printed in a _Collection of
Tracts on Witchcraft_, by David Webster. Edinburgh: 1820.

Footnote 359:

Lord Anstruther was the same judge and privy-councillor whom we have
seen concerned in the case of Aikenhead. He published a volume of
Essays, in which he speaks not very handsomely of the fair sex. ‘It is
true,’ says he, ‘woman is subject to man; he is her head; but I may
question if it was not rather inflicted as the punishment of her sin,
than sprung from the prerogative of our nature. But it may be thought
we retain some resentment at the first cause of our misery, and _by
our innate love to the sex, they continue to be the bane of human
life_.’—_Scottish Elegiac Verses_, note. p. 175.

Footnote 360:

_Acts of S. Parl._, xi. 180.

Footnote 361:

Hume of Crossrig’s _Diary_. Stevenson, Edin. 1843.

Footnote 362:

Memorial by his Lordship, _Culloden Papers_, p. 35.

Footnote 363:

Chamberlayne’s _Pres. State of Great Britain_, 1718.

Footnote 364:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 365:

_Account of the Bank of Scotland_, p. 7.

Footnote 366:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 367:

_Account of the Bank_, &c., p. 8.

Footnote 368:

Anderson’s _Essay on the Highlands_, 1827, p. 142.

Footnote 369:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 527.

Footnote 370:

_Book of the Thanes of Cawdor_ (Spald. Club), p. 417.

Footnote 371:

This anecdote is related in a memoir of President Forbes (_Scots
Magazine_, 1802), as having been derived from his lordship’s own
conversation.

Footnote 372:

Broadside of the time.

Footnote 373:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 374:

_Analecta Scotica_, i. 238.

Footnote 375:

_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 59.

Footnote 376:

The town of Kirkcaldy was at the same time favoured with a like
imposition on its beer, with certain little drawbacks or burdens, as
ten pounds a year to the professor of mathematics in King’s College,
Aberdeen, and twenty-five to the seven macers of parliament.

Footnote 377:

Colonel Erskine had purchased the earl’s estates in 1700.

Footnote 378:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 273.

Footnote 379:

_Essays on a Land Mint_, Edinburgh, 1706. It would appear, from the
records of parliament, that Dr Hugh Chamberlain was the author of this
scheme.

Footnote 380:

_Crim. Proc._, MS. Ant. Soc.

Footnote 381:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iv. 115.

Footnote 382:

Wilson’s _Life of Defoe_ (3 vols., 1830), _passim_.

Footnote 383:

Maclaurin’s _Criminal Cases_, p. 21. Wood’s _Peerage_.

Footnote 384:

Contemporary broadside.

Footnote 385:

Defoe’s _Hist. of Union_, p. 591.

Footnote 386:

Statutes at large, v. 149.

Footnote 387:

_Domestic Annals_, ii., 311.

Footnote 388:

_Scots Acts_, iii. 810.

Footnote 389:

_Hist. Acc. of the Bank of Scotland_, p. 9.

Footnote 390:

Introduction to Anderson’s _Diplomata_, reprint 1773, p. 174.

Footnote 391:

_Hist. Union_, p. 598.

Footnote 392:

_Historical Account of the Bank of Scotland_, p. 10.

Footnote 393:

Ruddiman, _Introduction to Diplomata_.

Footnote 394:

Wood’s _History of Cramond_, p. 39, _note_.

Footnote 395:

_Edinburgh Gazette_, Nov. 4, 1707.

Footnote 396:

Wodrow reports a wild tale about the discovery of the guilty man. It
is to the effect that Lady Craigcrook, a twelvemonth after the fact,
dreamed she saw the murderer, whom she recognised as an old servant,
kill the woman, and then hide the money in two old barrels filled with
trash. Her husband made inquiry, and finding the man possessed of a
suspicious amount of money, got him apprehended, and had his house
searched, when he found his bags, which he readily identified, and a
portion of the missing coin.—_Analecta_, iv. 171.

Footnote 397:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 409.

Footnote 398:

Parish Register of Spott.

Footnote 399:

Defoe’s _Hist. Union_, pp. 602, 604.

Footnote 400:

_Analecta_, i. 218.

Footnote 401:

Mr Strang, who quotes this passage in his amusing book on the Clubs of
Glasgow, states that these four gentlemen were Mr Cunninghame of
Lainshaw, Mr Spiers of Elderslie, Mr Glassford of Dougalston, and Mr
Ritchie of Busby—the estates here named being all purchased out of
their acquired wealth.

Footnote 402:

This anecdote was related to me by Sir Walter Scott, as derived from
his mother, who had received part of her education under the care of
the Hon. Patrick’s widow.

Footnote 403:

[Mackie’s] _Journey through Scotland_, 1723, p. 194.

Footnote 404:

The Customs and Excise in England brought in respectively £1,341,559
and £947,602.

Footnote 405:

‘Mum, a species of fat ale, brewed from wheat and bitter herbs, of
which the present generation only knew the name by its occurrence in
revenue acts of parliament, coupled with cider, perry, and other
excisable commodities.’—_The Antiquary_, chap. xi.

Footnote 406:

This is partly shewn by the small sum (£431) set down in the year 1748
for ‘spirit imported.’

Footnote 407:

For the statistics of this article, the author is indebted to a
manuscript volume containing an abstract of the Scottish Excise
revenues, which has been kindly shewn to him by the gentleman above
adverted to.

Footnote 408:

_Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock_, Spald.
Club publication, p. 397.

Footnote 409:

The entire poem was published in the _Edinburgh Annual Register_ for
1813.

Footnote 410:

Burt’s _Letters_, i. 194.

Footnote 411:

_Letters_, i. 193.

Footnote 412:

See a small volume containing all these acts, printed by the heirs of
Andrew Anderson, Edinburgh, 1709.

Footnote 413:

_State Trials_, fol. v. 630.

Footnote 414:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 556.

Footnote 415:

_Dom. Annals of Scot._, ii. 424.

Footnote 416:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 554.

Footnote 417:

Act, Town Council of Edinburgh.

Footnote 418:

Wodrow Coll. of Pamphlets. Adv. Lib.

Footnote 419:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 518.

Footnote 420:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, April 7, 1724.

Footnote 421:

_Decisions_, ii. 524.

Footnote 422:

Forbes’s _Journal of the Session_, 1714, p. 352.

Footnote 423:

Broadside printed by Reid, Bell’s Wynd, Edinburgh, 1709.

Footnote 424:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 237.

Footnote 425:

Ibid., iv. 288.

Footnote 426:

_Caledonian Mercury_, passim.

Footnote 427:

_Analecta_, i. 283.

Footnote 428:

_Scots Magazine_, 1771.

Footnote 429:

_Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland_, p. 10.

Footnote 430:

Letter of Campbell of Burnbank. _Argyle Papers_, p. 187.

Footnote 431:

_Analecta_, i. 309, 313.

Footnote 432:

9 Anne, c. 10.

Footnote 433:

‘The Tinklarian Doctor, in one of his singular pamphlets addressed to
the French king, and commencing: “Old Lewis, may it please your
majesty,” asks, “I would fain ken, Lewis, if ever you heard of me, for
many times I have heard of you, and more in the pulpits than anywhere
else; and if you were as oft at your own kirks in France as you are in
our pulpits in Scotland, you’d be very sib [akin] to the kirk—so
nearest the kirk, nearest the devil.”‘—Maidment’s _Collection of
Pasquils_, p. 74.

Footnote 434:

In the catalogue of a sale by Messrs Puttock and Simpson, Leicester
Square, London, June 1860, the following group of articles occurs:

‘157 Mitchell (Will.), the “Tinklarian Doctor” of Edinburgh, Tracts
by, viz.:

‘_Inward and Outward Light to be Sold. A wonderful Sermon preached
by the Tinklarian Doctor William Mitchell, in the sixty-first
year of his age, concerning Predestination._ 1731.

‘_Second Day’s Journey of the Tinklarian Doctor._ 1733.

‘_Short History, to the Commendation of the Royal Archers, with a
Description of six of the Dukes in Scotland, especially Argile,
written by the Tinklarian Doctor_, with a remarkable Colloquy in
Verse at the end, entitled _One Man’s Meat is another Man’s
Poison_. 1734.

‘_Voice (The) of the Tinklarian Doctor’s last Trumpet, sounding
for the Downfall of Babylon, and his last Arrow shot at her_,
&c. 1737.

‘_Prophecy of an Old Prophet, concerning Kings, and Judges, and
Rulers, and of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, and also of the
Downfall of Babylon, which is_ Locusts, _who is King of the
Bottomless Pit. Dedicated to all the Members of Parliament_
(1737).

‘_Revelation of the Voice of the Fifth Angel’s Trumpet_, &c.
Edinburgh, 1737.

‘_Tinklarian Doctor’s Dream, concerning those Locusts who hath
come out of the Smoke of the Pit, and hath Power to hurt all
Nations_, &c. The author refers to the Earl of Hyndford, and
wishes he had the knowledge of the hangman of Perth! Edinb.
1739.

‘_Tinklarian (The) Doctor’s Four Catechisms_, all published
separately. [Edinburgh] 1736, 1737, 1738.’

The auctioneers add: ‘A singular and remarkably rare collection of
eleven tracts. [The author] appears to have been a bookseller or petty
chapman in a small way. The most illiterate (and sometimes obscene)
language, applied to the aristocracy, is used in these works, and the
most severe animosity is displayed towards the Catholics (in the
advertisements at the end), because they would not accept, or purchase
for a penny, the _Light_, &c. The works of this author are unmentioned
by all Bibliographers, and we can trace only a single piece in the
British Museum under the heading of the _Tinklarian Doctor_, but none
of the above, neither do any occur in several other public libraries
where reference has been made.’

Footnote 435:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 667.

Footnote 436:

Crim. Proc. MS. Ant. Soc.

Footnote 437:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_.

Footnote 438:

Ibid.

Footnote 439:

_History of the Art of Printing_, Edinburgh, 1713.

Footnote 440:

Lee’s _Memorial for the Bible Societies_, 1824, p. 168.

Footnote 441:

Watson was a man of some merit, and deserves to be remembered as the
first publisher of a collection of Scottish poetry. His death, with
the style of ‘his majesty’s printer,’ on the 24th September 1722, is
noticed by the _Edinburgh Courant_. He appears to have thriven by his
patent, as the paragraph stating his widow’s death, a few years later,
adverts to the considerable means which had been left to her, and
which she then left to a second husband.

Footnote 442:

Brochure of two pages, _Miscellany Papers_, Adv. Lib.

Footnote 443:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_.

Footnote 444:

Wodrow _Correspondence_, _index_.

Footnote 445:

Wodrow MSS., Adv. Lib., and printed entire in _A New Book of Ballads_,
Edinburgh, 1844. Lockhart admits that Cockburn was not one of the most
respectable of the Episcopal clergy.

Footnote 446:

_Strange News from Scotland, or Scotch Presbyterian Piety evidently
proved by the Regard they shew to Consecrated Churches; a late
Instance whereof may be seen at this Day at Dunglass, belonging to Sir
James Hall, Bart., near Cockburnspath._ Sold by J. Morphew, near
Stationers’ Hall. 1712.

Footnote 447:

_Courant_ newspaper, quoted in _Reliquiæ Scoticæ_.

Footnote 448:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 735, 738.

Footnote 449:

Sir Hugh Dalrymple’s report of the case, quoted in Burton’s _Criminal
Trials_, i. 55.

Footnote 450:

‘The building of Inversnaid Fort was contracted for by —— Nasmyth,
builder in Edinburgh, grandfather of Alexander Nasmyth, the well-known
landscape-painter. One winter-night, Mr Nasmyth and his party of
workmen were roused from sleep in their lodging at the rising fort by
some travellers, who piteously beseeched shelter from the snow-storm.
On the door being opened, Rob Roy’s men rushed in, and began to abuse
the poor masons in a shocking manner; could scarcely be restrained
from taking their lives; and finally drove or dragged them half-naked
through the snow to a place where they dismissed them, after taking
them solemnly bound by oath never to come back to that country. Mr
Nasmyth, being held by government to a contract which he could not
fulfil, was seriously injured in his means by this affair; but its
worst consequence was the effect of the exposure of that dreadful
night on his health. He sunk under his complaints about eighteen
months after.’—_Information communicated by Mr James Nasmyth, late of
Patrickcroft, near Manchester._

Footnote 451:

_Alamode_, ‘a kind of thin silken manufacture.’—_Johnson._

Footnote 452:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_.

Footnote 453:

_Analecta_, ii. 76.

Footnote 454:

These expressions are from the _Engagement to Duties_, printed in
Struthers’s _Hist. Scot. from Union to 1748_.

Footnote 455:

_Analecta_, i. 322.

Footnote 456:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 756.

Footnote 457:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, ii. 85, 86.

Footnote 458:

_Analecta Scotica_, i. 877.

Footnote 459:

_Courant_ newspaper, _Reliquiæ Scot._

Footnote 460:

_Analecta_, ii. 206.

Footnote 461:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, ii. 254.

Footnote 462:

P. Rae’s _History of Rebellion of 1715–16_, p. 40.

Footnote 463:

A congenial spirit, Matthew Prior, produced a sort of paraphrase of
this piece:

‘In total death suppose the mortal lie,
No new hereafter, nor a future sky,
Yet bear thy lot content, yet cease to grieve,
Why, ere Death comes, shouldst thou forbear to live?
The little time thou hast ’twixt instant now
And death’s approach, is all the gods allow:
And of this little hast thou aught to spare
To sad reflection and corroding care?
The moments past, if thou art wise, retrieve
With pleasant memory of the bliss they give;
The present hour in present mirth employ,
And bribe the future with the hope of joy.’

Footnote 464:

_Analecta_, ii. 261.

Footnote 465:

From a private letter, dated Edinburgh, Feb. 20, 1714, _Analecta
Scotica_, i. 14.

Footnote 466:

His son Robert, father of Walter Scott, W.S. The youth was designed
for the sea, but became disgusted with it in consequence of a
shipwreck on the first voyage, and settled as a farmer at Sandyknowe,
near Kelso.

Footnote 467:

_Journal of Mr James Hart_ (Edinburgh, 1832), _preface_.

Footnote 468:

This play was entitled _Marciano, or the Discovery_, and was described
on the title as having been ‘acted with great applause before his
Majesty’s High Commissioner and others of the Nobility at the Abbey of
Holyroodhouse on St John’s Night.’

Footnote 469:

George Chalmers, _Life of Ramsay_, quoting the _Scots Courant_ for
August and December, 1715. The Tennis Court still exists, but reduced
to the condition of a smith’s workshop.

Footnote 470:

Alex. Maxwell to R. Wodrow, Edin., Feb. 15, 1715, in _Private Letters,
now first printed from Orig. MSS._ Edin. 1829.

Footnote 471:

Preface to the _Journal of Mr James Hart_. Edinburgh, 1832.

Footnote 472:

Meaning the total solar eclipse which happened on the 29th of March
1652, of which see an account in _Domestic Annals_, vol. ii. p. 215.

Footnote 473:

_Historical Summary of the Post-office in Scotland._ By T. B. Lang.
(For private circulation.) Edinburgh, 1856.

Footnote 474:

Justiciary Record. Sir John, soon after his collision with Mr Houston,
was actively engaged in raising volunteers at Greenock for the
suppression of the Rebellion.

Footnote 475:

_Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland_, p. 10.

Footnote 476:

Orig. letter in Paper Office, quoted by George Chalmers, _Caledonia_,
i. 870, _note_.

Footnote 477:

_Private Letters_, &c., Edin., 1829, p. 17.

Footnote 478:

_Life of Carstares_, prefixed to his _State Papers_. Edinburgh, 1774.

Footnote 479:

Notes on Old Tolbooth, _Scottish Journal_, p. 299.

Footnote 480:

Chalmers’s _Life of Ruddiman_, p. 37.

Footnote 481:

Justiciary Record.

Footnote 482:

_Caldwell Papers_, i. 235.

Footnote 483:

_St James’s Evening Post._

Footnote 484:

Newspaper advertisements.

Footnote 485:

See _Domestic Annals_ under those dates.

Footnote 486:

_Reports of the Commissioners_, fol.

Footnote 487:

The original subscription list is in possession of N. Fergusson Blair,
of Balthayock, Esq.

Footnote 488:

Burton’s _History of Scotland_, ii. 218.

Footnote 489:

Colonel Patrick Vans of Barnbarroch.

Footnote 490:

_Scottish Elegiac Verses_, 1842.

Footnote 491:

See Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, index.

Footnote 492:

Justiciary Record.

Footnote 493:

Notes to _Peveril of the Peak_.

Footnote 494:

Pope’s Works, Roscoe’s ed., ix. 34, 35.

Footnote 495:

_The Scots Courant._

Footnote 496:

_Scots Courant_, Oct 24, 1716.

Footnote 497:

_A Treatise on Forest Trees, in a Letter_, &c., published at Edinburgh
in 1761.

Footnote 498:

Perhaps Sir Archibald was wrong here. See the account of Baldoon Park
in this volume, under the date October 1696.

Footnote 499:

_Spalding Club Miscellany_, ii. 97.

Footnote 500:

The above facts are gathered from an anonymous volume, published in
1729, entitled _An Essay on the Means of Enclosing and Fallowing
Scotland_.

Footnote 501:

MS. of Graham of Gartmore, App. to Burt’s _Letters_, 2d ed., ii. 349.

Footnote 502:

Gordon of Ellon, son to a farmer in Bourtie—a merchant in Edinburgh,
and once a bailie there, and a rich man. By him the house of Ellon was
built anew in a handsome style.—_View of Diocese of Aberdeen_, Spal.
Club, p. 301 (written about beginning of the 18th century).

Footnote 503:

In February 1721, John Webster, a gardener, having committed murder
upon a young woman named Campbell, ‘on Heriot’s Hospital ground,
behind our town-wall,’ was tried in the barony of Broughton, and
condemned to die.

Footnote 504:

_Celebrated Trials_, iii. 272 (name and date of incident there given
erroneously). _Scottish Journal_, Oct. 23, 1847. Contemporary
confession. _Notes and Queries_, Dec. 1859, quoting three numbers of
the contemporary newspaper, the _Scots Courant_.

Footnote 505:

Broadside reprinted in _Analecta Scotica_, i. 246.

Footnote 506:

Letter of Rev. Mr Murray, dated Comrie Manse, 2d July, 1717; _Ant.
Scot. Transactions_, iii. 296.

In a letter of Mr James Anderson, editor of the _Diplomata Scotiæ_, to
his son, Edinburgh, June 20, 1717, it is noted, as a recent event,
that ‘Rob Roi surrendered to D. Atholl, but not meeting with such
things as he expected, has made his escape.’—_MSS._, _Adv. Library_.

Footnote 507:

_Steele’s Correspondence_, edited by John Nicholls. 2 vols. 1787.

Footnote 508:

_Streams from Helicon_, 1720, p. 48.

Footnote 509:

He wrote to his daughter on the 17th September and 7th October, 1720,
from Edinburgh.—_Steele’s Letters._

Footnote 510:

_Analecta Scotica_, i. 16.

Footnote 511:

Cibber’s [Shiels’s] _Lives of the Poets_, iv. 118.

Footnote 512:

Gibson’s _History of Glasgow_, 1777, p. 208. It was asserted that the
duties paid to government for tobacco brought to Glasgow between
August 1716 and March 1722, amounted to no more than £2702. A
representation for the Glasgow merchants shewed that the real sum was
£38,047, 17_s._ 0¾_d._—_Edin. Ev. Courant_, Jan. 21, 1723.

Footnote 513:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 129.

Footnote 514:

_The City of Edinburgh’s Address to the Country_, Ramsay’s _Poems_, i.
19.

Footnote 515:

_Journey through Scotland_ [by Macky?], 1723, p. 274.

Footnote 516:

_Edinburgh Evening Courant_, June 14, 1722. ‘On Tuesday last [19th
January 1725], being the birthday of Prince Frederick, there was an
extraordinary appearance of ladies and persons of distinction, at a
musick opera in this city.’—_Ibid._

Footnote 517:

M‘Gibbon died on the 3d October 1756, bequeathing the whole of his
means to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Footnote 518:

‘My Lord Colville died in March last, and about Culross it is very
currently believed that he has appeared more than once, and has been
seen by severals. Some say that he appeared to Mr Logan, his
brother-in-law [minister of Torry]; but he does not own it. Two of his
servants were coming to the house, and saw him walking near them; and,
if I remember, he called to them just in the same voice and garb he
used to be in; but they fled from him, and came in, in a great fright.
They are persons of credibility and gravity, as I am told.”[521]

Footnote 519:

Arnot’s _Hist. Edinburgh_, p. 379.

Footnote 520:

Adam Craig died in October 1741. For this and several facts involved
in the above article, I have to express my obligation to Mr David
Laing’s Introduction to Johnson’s _Scots Musical Museum_.

Footnote 521:

Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 519.

Footnote 522:

_Analecta Scotica_, i. 195.

Footnote 523:

Ibid. ii. 830.

Footnote 524:

From documents printed in Law’s _Memorials_.

Footnote 525:

George Chalmers’s _Life of Ruddiman_, p. 83.

Footnote 526:

_Edin. Ev. Courant_, Feb. 18, 1850.

Footnote 527:

Those who are desirous of further light upon the Marrow Controversy,
may be referred to Struthers’s _History of Scotland from the Union_,
&c., 2 vols. 8vo, which, by the way, is a book entitled to more notice
than it has received. The worthy author, a self-educated working-man,
has been led by his own taste to give details, not elsewhere to be
easily met with, of the ecclesiastical proceedings of the earlier half
of the eighteenth century, all of which he treats in the spirit of a
strenuous old-fashioned west-country Presbyterian. He is copious and
severe about the Jacobite and Episcopalian movements, but slights the
troubles of the Catholics as ‘beneath the dignity of history.’

Footnote 528:

Letter of Alexander Jaffray of Kingsmills, to Sir Archibald Grant of
Monymusk.—_Spalding Club Miscellany_, ii. 98.

Footnote 529:

Jaffray’s letter, as above.

Footnote 530:

‘LONDON, _September 3, 1720_.—Last Wednesday, the York Buildings
Company sent down to Scotland about sixty thousand pounds in guineas,
guarded by a party of horse, being part of the purchase-money for
forfeited estates. The same is to be lodged in the Exchequer at
Edinburgh.’—_Newspapers of the day._

Footnote 531:

The Commissioners, who were engaged in their task for nearly nine
years, seem to have had £1000 per annum each.

Footnote 532:

5 George I. cap. 20. _Statutes at large_, v. 152.

Footnote 533:

Mr James Drummond, on the 26th May 1720, writes from Blair-Drummond to
‘Mr David Drummond, Treasurer of the Bank, Edinburgh:’ ‘I’m heartily
glad the Bank holds out so well. Ther’s great pains taken in the
countrey to raise evill reports upon it. I had occasion to find so in
a pretty numerous company the other day; yet I did not find any
willing to part with your notes at the least discount.’—_MSS. in
possession of N. Fergusson Blair of Balthayock._

Footnote 534:

The arrangement of the Friendly Society consisted simply in a
combination of house-proprietors, each paying in 100 merks per £1000
Scots, or a fifteenth of the value of the property, as a stock out of
which to compensate for all damage by fire.

Footnote 535:

_The Scribblers Lashed._ Ramsay’s _Poems_, i. 316.

Footnote 536:

From a contemporary account appended to _Satan’s Invisible World
Discovered_.

Footnote 537:

Private Letters, &c.

Footnote 538:

See under September 1711.

Footnote 539:

Dr Mitchell’s _Strange and Wonderful Discourse concerning the Witches
and Warlocks in Calder_, quoted in Sharpe’s edition of Law’s
_Memorials_.

Footnote 540:

_Edin. Evening Courant._

Footnote 541:

_Ibid._

Footnote 542:

Bishop Keith’s _Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops_.

Footnote 543:

_Edin. Evening Courant._

Footnote 544:

From the documents printed in _Criminal Trials illustrative of the
Heart of Mid-Lothian_. Edinburgh, 1818.

Footnote 545:

Edinburgh, 1835.

Footnote 546:

Private Letters, &c., p. 29.

Footnote 547:

Sir Walter Scott mentions this little fact in the _Border Minstrelsy_.

Footnote 548:

For a short time before the insurrection, he had acted as factor to
Sir John Preston of Preston Hall, in Mid-Lothian, now also a forfeited
estate, but of minor value.

Footnote 549:

_Memorial of William and Robert Ross to the Commissioners on Forfeited
Estates. Report of Commissioners_, printed for Jacob Tonson,
1724.—Traditional and topographical notes from a relative of Donald
Murchison.

Footnote 550:

It may be curious to contrast with the above account of the fight of
Aa-na-Mullich, framed mainly from authentic documents, the following
traditionary account, which has been communicated by Mr F. Macdonald,
residing at Druidag Lodge, Lochalsh.

‘The first encounter that this famous man [Donald Murchison] had with
the royal commissioner and troops was at the pass of Aa-na-Mullich,
about a hundred yards from the end of Loch Affaric. He stationed
himself and his Kintail men at the pass, on the north side of the
river which empties itself into Loch Affaric, on a place called
Tor-an-beithe, or Birch Hillock, where they had a good view of the
enemy some miles off. On advancing towards this pass, Captain Monro of
Fearn [mistake for Ross of Easterfearn], the royal commissioner, sent
his son forward to reconnoitre on horseback, and when he appeared on
the opposite side of the river, the poor fellow was shot at once,
receiving a mortal wound. Upon hearing the report, and that Monro’s
son was shot, the bulk of the royal troops wheeled round, and took to
their heels, leaving Captain Monro with very few of his men to help in
the painful duty of conveying his wounded son back. In this emergency,
he implored Murchison to lend him some of his men to assist in
carrying the wounded young man till he should be able to join his own
fugitive troops; which, with his wonted generosity, he immediately
complied with. They constructed a litter the best way they could, and
retraced their steps to Beauly, which, however, they did not reach
before the young man died. Murchison and his men followed, lest those
troops who formerly fled should turn round and assault the men he had
given to assist them. He followed as far as Knockfin on the heights of
Strathglass.’ [Mr Macdonald ends by quoting two or three stanzas of a
Gaelic poem composed by an old woman at Beauly, as they were passing
with the dead body.]

Footnote 551:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant._

Footnote 552:

_Caledonian Mercury_, May 7, 1722.

Footnote 553:

_Wodrow Correspondence_, ii. 640.

Footnote 554:

Arnot’s _Crim. Trials_, p. 335.

Footnote 555:

_Wodrow Correspondence_, ii. 646.

Footnote 556:

_Cal. Mercury_, Aug. 7, 1722.

Footnote 557:

_Caledonian Mercury._

Footnote 558:

English contemporary journals. Broadside account of the skirmish.
Information from Lochcarron, MS.

Footnote 559:

Wade’s Report in App. to 2d ed. of Burt’s _Letters_, 1822, vol. ii. p.
280.

Footnote 560:

_Lockhart Papers._

Footnote 561:

MS. poem on _Wade’s Roads in Scotland_, dated 1737, in possession of
the Junior United Service Club.

Footnote 562:

The traditional account of Donald Murchison, communicated by Mr F.
Macdonald, states that the heroic commissioner had been promised a
handsome reward for his services; but Seaforth proved ungrateful. ‘He
was offered only a small farm called Bundalloch, which pays at this
day to Mr Matheson, the proprietor, no more than £60 a year; or
another place opposite to Inverinate House, of about the same value.
It is no wonder he refused these paltry offers. He shortly afterwards
left this country, and died in the prime of life near Conon. On his
death-bed, Seaforth went to see him, and asked how he was. He said:
“Just as you will be in a short time,” and then turned his back. They
never met again.’

Footnote 563:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, ii. 368.

Footnote 564:

_New Statistical Account of Scotland_, art. _Tranent_.

Footnote 565:

‘The brave Locheil, as I heard tell,
Led Camerons on in clouds, man.’
_Contemporary Ballad._

Footnote 566:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, Jan. 29, 1723.

Footnote 567:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, April 1, 1723. _Scot. Elegiac Verses_, p.
247.

Footnote 568:

MS., Advocates’ Library.

Footnote 569:

Letter by Andrew M‘Dowall (subsequently Lord Bankton) and J. M‘Gowan.
_Nugæ Scoticæ_, Edinburgh, 1829.

Footnote 570:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, May 1723.

Footnote 571:

From pamphlets published by Sir Alexander Murray.

Footnote 572:

Probably some attempt had been made to turn to account the foliated
gypsum beds which exist near Kelso.

Footnote 573:

Poem on the Highland Roads, Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior
United Service Club.

Footnote 574:

_Edin. Ev. Courant_, August 22, 1743.

Footnote 575:

_Memoirs of George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grizel Baillie_,
&c. 1822.

Footnote 576:

_Chalmers’s Brit. Poets_, xiv. 576.

Footnote 577:

_Celebrated Trials_, 6 vols. 1825. Vol. iii. p. 395.

Footnote 578:

_Memoirs of Lady Grizel Baillie._

Footnote 579:

_Edin. Ev. Courant_, May 9, 1723.

Footnote 580:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_.

Footnote 581:

This was the place of worship which Dr Johnson attended when in
Edinburgh in 1773. It is now demolished.

Footnote 582:

_Analecta._

Footnote 583:

It may be satisfactory to local antiquaries to know that this hall was
situated in what was consequently called the _Assembly_ (latterly, Old
Assembly) _Close_, on the south side of the High Street. The assembly
to be held on the 25th May 1736 was advertised as to take place ‘in
their _new hall_, behind the City Guard.’ This last site was that
afterwards occupied by a building used as an office by the Commercial
Bank, now the Free Church of the Tron parish. A rent of £55 was paid
for this new hall, which continued to be used for fifty years,
although confessedly too small, and very inconvenient.

Footnote 584:

Burt’s _Letters_, i. 193.

Footnote 585:

The Horn Order and Crispin Knights are satirised in several pasquils
of the time of Queen Anne as fraternities practising debauchery to an
unusual degree. A satire on the Union says:

The Canongate know no cabals,
Nor knights of the Horn order;
And lights were not put out at balls,
When I was a dame of honour.

The Crispins, and the Crispin pins,
Wore things unknown unto us;
We ladies then thought shame to sin,
It cost pains to undo us, &c.
_Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils_, il. 75.

Footnote 586:

Burt’s _Letters_, i. 193.

Footnote 587:

_Caledonian Mercury_, November 14, 1723.

Footnote 588:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant._

Footnote 589:

_Letters from the North of Scotland_, ii. 143.

Footnote 590:

Chalmers’s _Life of Ruddiman_, p. 75.

Footnote 591:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 142.

Footnote 592:

Mortgage.

Footnote 593:

Burt’s _Letters_, ii. 73.

Footnote 594:

Alexander Pennecuik, of Edinburgh, has a poem entitled _A Curse on the
Clan Macphersons, occasioned by the News of Glenbucket being murdered
by them_:

‘May that cursed clan up by the roots be pluckèd,
Whose impious hands have killed the good Glenbucket!
Villains far worse than Infidel or Turk,
To slash his body with your bloody durk—
A fatal way to make his physic work!
Rob Roy and you fight ’gainst the noblest names,
The generous Gordons and the gallant Grahams.
Perpetual clouds through your black clan shall reign,
Traitors ’gainst God, and rebels ’gainst your king,
Until you feel the law’s severest rigour,
And be extinguished like the base Macgregor!’
Pennecuik’s _Poems_, MS., Adv.
Lib.

Footnote 595:

Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior United Service Club.

Footnote 596:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, April 9, 1724.

Footnote 597:

_Private Letters_, &c., p. 37.

Footnote 598:

_Analecta._

Footnote 599:

Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes, writing, in 1811, from personal
recollection of the incidents.—_Murray’s Lit. Hist. Galloway_, p. 337.

Footnote 600:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 152, 157, 170.

Footnote 601:

‘A ewe which has given over bearing.’—_Jamieson._

Footnote 602:

That is, a native of Ireland.

Footnote 603:

Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes to W. M. Herries of Spottes, dated
February 1811.—_Murray’s Lit. Hist. of Galloway_, Appendix, p. 337.

Footnote 604:

See _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, under September 1583.

Footnote 605:

_Caledonian Mercury_ of the day.

Footnote 606:

_Edin. Ev. Courant._

Footnote 607:

Lovat’s Memorial to the King, Burt’s _Letters_, 2d ed., ii. 264, App.

Footnote 608:

Letter of General Guest, _Spalding Club Miscellany_, iii. 229.

Footnote 609:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant_, September 6, 1725. This paper remarks that
the extent of country which belonged to the late Earl of Seaforth, and
disarmed on this occasion, was no less than sixty miles in length and
forty in breadth.

Footnote 610:

Lockhart Papers.

Footnote 611:

Miscellany Papers, Adv. Lib.

Footnote 612:

_Ed. Ev. Courant._

Footnote 613:

D. Webster’s _Account of Roslin Chapel_, &c., Edinburgh, 1819.

Footnote 614:

_Transactions of the Society of Improvers._

Footnote 615:

_Caledonian Mercury_, July 1735.

Footnote 616:

[Sinclair’s] _Stat. Acc. Scot._, xx. 74.

Footnote 617:

[Sinclair’s] _Stat. Acc. Scot._, viii. 525. A drawing and description
of a winnowing-machine used in Silesia appears in the _Gentleman’s
Magazine_ for 1747, as a thing unknown in England.

Footnote 618:

_Old Mortality_, chap. vii.

Footnote 619:

Newspapers of the day.

Footnote 620:

Introduction to the _Pirate_—a novel, it need scarcely be remarked,
founded on the story of Gow.

Footnote 621:

‘LONDON, _March 29, 1720_.—Sunday evening the Duke of Douglas and the
Earl of Dalkeith fought a duel behind Montague House, and both were
wounded.’—_Newspapers of the day._

Footnote 622:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 208.

Footnote 623:

_Lockhart Papers._ Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 210, et seq. Contemporary
narration.

Footnote 624:

See _antea_, under February 1697.

Footnote 625:

Sinclair’s _Statistical Acc. of Scotland_, article ‘Erskine.

Footnote 626:

Notice from the Edinburgh Post-office, Nov. 23, 1725.

Footnote 627:

_Caledonian Mercury_, Oct. 1733, and Jan. 1734.

Footnote 628:

_Edin. Ev. Courant._

Footnote 629:

Chamberlayne’s _Present State of Great Britain_ for the years cited.

Footnote 630:

_Scottish Journal_, p. 208.

Footnote 631:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_.

Footnote 632:

_New Stat. Acc. of Scot._, vi. 157.

Footnote 633:

Scrap-book of Dugald Bannatyne, quoted in _New Stat. Acc. of Scot._,
vi. 231.

Footnote 634:

Smollett’s _Humphry Clinker_.

Footnote 635:

Ramsay’s Works, i. 285.

Footnote 636:

Arnot’s _History of Edinburgh_, p. 366.

Footnote 637:

Mr Jackson had heard that Aston’s theatre was ‘in a close on the north
side of the High Street, near Smith’s Land. A Mrs Millar at that time
was esteemed a capital actress, and was also a very handsome woman. Mr
Westcombe was the principal comedian. The scheme was supported by
annual tickets, subscribed for by the favourers of the drama.’—_Hist.
Scot. Stage_, p. 417.

Footnote 638:

Arnot’s _Hist. Edinburgh_, p. 366.

Footnote 639:

_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 211.

Footnote 640:

‘EDINBURGH, _April 9, 1728_.—Yesterday, Tony Astons, elder and
younger, stage-players, were committed prisoners to the Tolbooth. ’Tis
said they are charged with the crime of carrying off a young lady
designed for a wife to the latter.’—_Ed. Ev. Courant._

Footnote 641:

Private Letters, &c.

Footnote 642:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 309.

Footnote 643:

Printed by James Duncan, Glasgow, 1728, pp. 168.

Footnote 644:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iii. 318.

Footnote 645:

MS. in possession of the Junior United Service Club.

Footnote 646:

_Struan Papers_, MS. The Earl of Mar, writing to Struan from Paris,
January 6, 1724, says: ‘Our poor friend John Menzies has been very
near walking off the stage of life; but I now hope he may still be
able to act out the play of the Restoration with us, though he must
not pretend to a young part.’ Among Struan’s published poems is ‘an
Epitaph on his Dear Friend John Menzies;’ from which it would appear
that Menzies had died abroad, and been buried in unconsecrated ground.

Footnote 647:

_History of the Robertsons of Struan.... Poems of Robertson of
Struan_, Edinburgh, no date, p. 167.

Footnote 648:

_Feb. 4, 1755._ ‘At London, Edmund Burt, Esq., late agent to General
Wade, chief surveyor during the making of roads through the Highlands,
and author of the _Letters concerning Scotland_.’—_Scots Mag.
Obituary._

Footnote 649:

Burt’s _Letters_, ii. 189.

Footnote 650:

This poem exists in MS. in the library of the Junior United Service
Club, London.

Footnote 651:

Usquebaugh, whisky.

Footnote 652:

Library of the Junior United Service Club, London, to which body I
have to express my obligations for the permission to inspect and make
extracts.

Footnote 653:

_Letters_, &c. i. 77.

Footnote 654:

This road was completed in October 1729. See onward.

Footnote 655:

_Select Transactions of the Society of Improvers._

Footnote 656:

Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Dalloway’s ed., iii. 127.

Footnote 657:

_Gentleman’s Magazine_, iii. 515.

Footnote 658:

_Cyc. of Pract. Medicine_, iii. 749.

Footnote 659:

_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 322.

Footnote 660:

_Boswelliana_, privately printed by R. Monckton Milnes, Esq.

Footnote 661:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant._

Footnote 662:

_Hist Acc. of the Bank of Scotland_, 1728.

Footnote 663:

_Analecta_, iii. 476.

Footnote 664:

_A Letter containing Remarks on the Historical Account of the Old
Bank_, by a Gentleman concerned in neither Bank. Edin., James Davidson
& Co., 1728.

Footnote 665:

This is a statement of the pamphlet last quoted, p. 30.

Footnote 666:

In British Museum, 8223 C/2 (b/2).

Footnote 667:

_Analecta_, iii. 302.

Footnote 668:

Burt’s _Letters from the North of Scotland_, 2d ed., i. 230.

Footnote 669:

Sharpe’s Introduction to Law’s _Memorials_, cvi.

Footnote 670:

Scott’s _Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft_, p. 328.

Footnote 671:

Representation by the linen-drapers at the bar of the House of
Commons, Jan. 1720.

Footnote 672:

Letter in the Paper-office, quoted by Chalmers, _Caledonia_, i. 873,
_note_.

Footnote 673:

_Analecta_, iii. 452.

Footnote 674:

Private Letters, &c., p. 59.

Footnote 675:

_Edinburgh Ev. Courant._

Footnote 676:

Mr Wodrow relates that, about the same time, a number of ministers in
England met occasionally together under the name of the Orthodox Club,
and ‘frequently their conversation is _gay and_ jocose’—‘_gay and_’
being here a Scotch adverb meaning considerably.

Footnote 677:

Private Letters, &c., p. 61.

Footnote 678:

_State Trials_, ix. 26. Arnot’s _Crim. Trials_, p. 190.

Footnote 679:

Private Letters, &c., p. 64. Mr Lindsay was soon after lord provost
and member for the city, in which latter capacity he made a remarkably
good speech in the House of Commons on the bill for taking away the
privileges of the corporation in consequence of the Porteous Riot. See
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, vii. 457.

Footnote 680: