320. Privy Council Record.

321. His lordship died in 1714.

322. Privy Council Record.

323. Caledonia, i. 881, note.

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.’

325. Reliquiæ Scoticæ (Edin. 1828).

326. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot. iii. 378.

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.

328. Dom. Ann. of Scotland, ii. 494.

329. Ibid. ii. 282.

330. Privy Council Record.

331. A term expressive of a tough, lean person.

332. Domestic Annals of Scotland, i. 68.

333. Ibid. ii. 318.

334. Ibid. ii. 401.

335. Letters of Lady Margaret Burnett, Edinburgh, 4to, 1828, p. 63.

336. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 66, 221.

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.

338. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 85.

339. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 203.

340. By Andrew Bell in Cornhill, London.

341. Boswell. Tour to the Hebrides, p. 401.

342. Anderson’s Hist. Fam. of Fraser, p. 110.

343. Miscellanies, p. 189.

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.’

345. Harrington’s Nugæ Antiquæ, by Park, 2 vols. 1804, i. 369.

346. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil, 4to (Abbotsford Club), 1842, p. 24.

347. This investigation occurred in the year 1665.

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

349. Original document quoted and abridged in a volume called The Court of Session Garland. Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson. 1839.

350. Analecta, iii. 364.

351. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 125.

352. See Court of Session Garland, p. 20.

353. Published in 1754.

354. Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopædia, art. ‘Burnett, James.’

355. Privy Council Record.

356. Petition against Mr Greenshields, 1709, Defoe’s History of the Union, p. 21.

357. Privy Council Record.

358. Minutes of the Session of Torryburn, printed in a Collection of Tracts on Witchcraft, by David Webster. Edinburgh: 1820.

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.

360. Acts of S. Parl., xi. 180.

361. Hume of Crossrig’s Diary. Stevenson, Edin. 1843.

362. Memorial by his Lordship, Culloden Papers, p. 35.

363. Chamberlayne’s Pres. State of Great Britain, 1718.

364. Privy Council Record.

365. Account of the Bank of Scotland, p. 7.

366. Privy Council Record.

367. Account of the Bank, &c., p. 8.

368. Anderson’s Essay on the Highlands, 1827, p. 142.

369. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 527.

370. Book of the Thanes of Cawdor (Spald. Club), p. 417.

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

372. Broadside of the time.

373. Privy Council Record.

374. Analecta Scotica, i. 238.

375. Analecta Scotica, ii. 59.

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.

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

378. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 273.

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.

380. Crim. Proc., MS. Ant. Soc.

381. Wodrow’s Analecta, iv. 115.

382. Wilson’s Life of Defoe (3 vols., 1830), passim.

383. Maclaurin’s Criminal Cases, p. 21. Wood’s Peerage.

384. Contemporary broadside.

385. Defoe’s Hist. of Union, p. 591.

386. Statutes at large, v. 149.

387. Domestic Annals, ii., 311.

388. Scots Acts, iii. 810.

389. Hist. Acc. of the Bank of Scotland, p. 9.

390. Introduction to Anderson’s Diplomata, reprint 1773, p. 174.

391. Hist. Union, p. 598.

392. Historical Account of the Bank of Scotland, p. 10.

393. Ruddiman, Introduction to Diplomata.

394. Wood’s History of Cramond, p. 39, note.

395. Edinburgh Gazette, Nov. 4, 1707.

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.

397. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 409.

398. Parish Register of Spott.

399. Defoe’s Hist. Union, pp. 602, 604.

400. Analecta, i. 218.

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.

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.

403. [Mackie’s] Journey through Scotland, 1723, p. 194.

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

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.

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

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.

408. Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock, Spald. Club publication, p. 397.

409. The entire poem was published in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1813.

410. Burt’s Letters, i. 194.

411. Letters, i. 193.

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

413. State Trials, fol. v. 630.

414. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 556.

415. Dom. Annals of Scot., ii. 424.

416. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 554.

417. Act, Town Council of Edinburgh.

418. Wodrow Coll. of Pamphlets. Adv. Lib.

419. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 518.

420. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, April 7, 1724.

421. Decisions, ii. 524.

422. Forbes’s Journal of the Session, 1714, p. 352.

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

424. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 237.

425. Ibid., iv. 288.

426. Caledonian Mercury, passim.

427. Analecta, i. 283.

428. Scots Magazine, 1771.

429. Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland, p. 10.

430. Letter of Campbell of Burnbank. Argyle Papers, p. 187.

431. Analecta, i. 309, 313.

432. 9 Anne, c. 10.

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.

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.’

435. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 667.

436. Crim. Proc. MS. Ant. Soc.

437. Wodrow’s Analecta.

438. Ibid.

439. History of the Art of Printing, Edinburgh, 1713.

440. Lee’s Memorial for the Bible Societies, 1824, p. 168.

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.

442. Brochure of two pages, Miscellany Papers, Adv. Lib.

443. Wodrow’s Analecta.

444. Wodrow Correspondence, index.

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.

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.

447. Courant newspaper, quoted in Reliquiæ Scoticæ.

448. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 735, 738.

449. Sir Hugh Dalrymple’s report of the case, quoted in Burton’s Criminal Trials, i. 55.

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.

451. Alamode, ‘a kind of thin silken manufacture.’—Johnson.

452. Fountainhall’s Decisions.

453. Analecta, ii. 76.

454. These expressions are from the Engagement to Duties, printed in Struthers’s Hist. Scot. from Union to 1748.

455. Analecta, i. 322.

456. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 756.

457. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 85, 86.

458. Analecta Scotica, i. 877.

459. Courant newspaper, Reliquiæ Scot.

460. Analecta, ii. 206.

461. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 254.

462. P. Rae’s History of Rebellion of 1715–16, p. 40.

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

464. Analecta, ii. 261.

465. From a private letter, dated Edinburgh, Feb. 20, 1714, Analecta Scotica, i. 14.

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.

467. Journal of Mr James Hart (Edinburgh, 1832), preface.

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.’

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.

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