Part 68
Lord Viscount Kingston was a cadet of the Winton family, and had delivered a Latin oration to Charles I., at his father’s house of Seton, in 1633.
Footnote 37:
In the parliament which sat down in September, robbing the post-packet was declared to be ‘robbery,’ to be punished with death and confiscation of movables.—_Scots Acts._
Footnote 38:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 39:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 40:
Privy Council Record. The privileges of Mr Hamilton were confirmed by the Estates in June 1693.
Footnote 41:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 42:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 43:
A portrait of the house, and some particulars of the family, are to be found in Robert Stuart’s _Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former Times_, 4to, 1847.
Footnote 44:
This must have been Lady Raeburn (Anne Scott of Ancrum).
Footnote 45:
Probably his sister Isobel’s husband, described in Burke as Captain Anderson.
Footnote 46:
_Acts of General Assembly_, 1690, p. 18.
Footnote 47:
See page 10.
Footnote 48:
_Melville Correspondence_, p. 150. The parliament, on the 18th July 1690, gave a warrant for subjecting one Muir or Ker to the torture, in order to expiscate the truth regarding the murder of an infant, of which he was vehemently suspected.
Footnote 49:
Mr Burton, in his _History of Scotland from 1689 to 1748_, gives the following account of this nobleman: ‘The Earl of Crawford, made chairman of the Estates and a privy councillor, was the only statesman of the day who adopted the peculiar demeanour and scriptural language of the Covenanters. It is to him that Burnet and others attribute the severities against the Episcopal clergymen, and the guidance of the force brought to bear in the parliament and Privy Council in favour of a Presbyterian establishment.’
Footnote 50:
_Melville Correspondence._ Privy Council Record.
Footnote 51:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 52:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 53:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 54:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 55:
Burt’s _Letters_, i. 128.
Footnote 56:
A phrase of the time, found in the Privy Council Record.
Footnote 57:
John Callander, master-smith, petitioned the Privy Council in June 1689, regarding smith-work which he had executed for Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, to the amount of eleven hundred pounds sterling, whereof, though long due, he had ‘never yet received payment of a sixpence.’ On his earnest entreaty, three hundred pounds were ordered to be paid to account. On the ensuing 23d of August, he was ordained to be paid £6567, 17_s._ 2_d._, after a rigid taxing of his accounts, Scots money being of course meant. Connected with this little matter is an anecdote which has been told in various forms, regarding the estate of Craigforth, near Stirling. It is alleged that the master-smith, failing to obtain a solution of the debt from the Scottish Exchequer, applied to the English treasury, and was there so fortunate as to get payment of the apparent sum in English money. Having out of this unexpected wealth made a wadset on the estate of Craigforth, he ultimately fell into the possession of that property, which he handed down to his descendants.[58] John Callander was grandfather of a gentleman of the same name, who cultivated literature with assiduity, and was the editor of two ancient Scottish poems—_The Guberlunzie Man_, and _Christ’s Kirk on the Green_. This gentleman, again, was grandfather to Mrs Thomas Sheridan and Lady Graham of Netherby.
Footnote 58:
_Sir James Campbell’s Memoirs._ _A Week at the Bridge of Allan_, by Charles Rogers, 1853, p. 334.
Footnote 59:
Justiciary Records.
Footnote 60:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 61:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 62:
Record of Convention of Burghs, MS. in Council Chamber, Edinburgh.
Footnote 63:
Anderson’s Prize Essay on the State of the Highlands in 1745, p. 95.
Footnote 64:
_New Stat. Acc. of Scotland_: Ross, p. 220.
Footnote 65:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 66:
Dr John Brown: _Locke and Sydenham_, &c., 1858, p. 457.
Footnote 67:
The second edition of Tippermalloch was published in 1716, containing Dr Pitcairn’s method of curing the small-pox. It professes to be superior to the first edition, being ‘taken from an original copy which the author himself delivered to the truly noble and excellent lady, the late Marchioness of Athole, and which her Grace the present duchess, a lady no less eminent for her singular goodness and virtue than her high quality, was pleased to communicate to us and the public.’
Footnote 68:
_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 176.
Footnote 69:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 70:
Crossrig’s _Diary_.
Footnote 71:
Kilravock Papers, Spald. Club, p. 388.
Footnote 72:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 73:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 74:
_Life of Peden_, _Biogr. Presbyteriana_, i. 112.
Footnote 75:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 76:
_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 29.
Footnote 77:
Criminal Proceedings, a Collection of Justiciary Papers in Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Footnote 78:
Macdonald of Glencoe bore the subordinate surname of M‘Ian, as descended from a noted person named Ian or John.
Footnote 79:
Addressed to Sir Thomas Livingstone, commander-in-chief of the forces in Scotland.
Footnote 80:
See _Papers Illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands from 1689 to 1696_. Maitland Club. 1845.
Footnote 81:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 82:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 83:
This was the father of Mr Andrew Drummond, the founder of the celebrated banking-house in the Strand.
Footnote 84:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 85:
From papers in possession of John Hall Maxwell, of Dargavel, Esq.
Footnote 86:
Privy Council Record. (See onward, under December 31, 1692, and July 13, 1697.)
Footnote 87:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 88:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 693.
Footnote 89:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 90:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 693.
Footnote 91:
_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 326.
Footnote 92:
_Mem. of John Earl of Stair by an Impartial Hand_, p. 7.
Footnote 93:
Murray’s _Literary Hist. of Galloway_, p. 155.
Footnote 94:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 95:
Minutes of Merchant Company, MS. in possession of the Company.
Footnote 96:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 518, 564.
Footnote 97:
_Ibid._, i. 525.
Footnote 98:
_Ibid._
Footnote 99:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 100:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 101:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 102:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 103:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 104:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 105:
In July 1695, there was a further act ‘anent burying in Scots linen,’ ordaining that none should be used for sepulchral purposes above twenty shillings Scots per ell, and also commanding that the nearest elder or deacon of the parish, with one or two neighbours, should be called by the friends of deceased persons to see that the shroud was in all respects conform to the acts thereanent.
Footnote 106:
_Wodrow Pamphlets_, Adv. Lib., vol. 115.
Footnote 107:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 108:
_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 429.
Footnote 109:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 110:
_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 420.
Footnote 111:
See _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 398.
Footnote 112:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 113:
_Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend at Edinburgh_, &c. Edin. 1696.
Footnote 114:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 115:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 590.
Footnote 116:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 117:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 118:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 119:
_Scottish Journal_, ii. 200.
Footnote 120:
The troubles from the meeting-houses at Coldingham and two neighbouring parishes, led to their being entirely suppressed by the arm of the government in March 1700 [q. v.]
Footnote 121:
The above, and some other curious extracts from the parish register of Coldingham, are given in an interesting volume, entitled _History of the Priory of Coldingham_. By William King Hunter. Edinburgh, 1858.
Footnote 122:
_Analecta_, ii. 250. Wodrow tells us that Lady Dundee had been very violent against the Presbyterians, and ‘used to say she wished that, that day she heard a Presbyterian minister, the house might fall down and smother her, which it did.’
Footnote 123:
_Analecta Scotica_, i. 187. Wodrow’s _Analecta_, ii. 250.
Footnote 124:
William Livingstone survived his wife nearly forty years. In the _Caledonian Mercury_ for February 6, 1733, is this paragraph: ‘We are assured private letters are in town, giving account, that on the 12th of last month, the Right Hon. the late Viscount Kilsyth died at Rome, in an advanced age, in perfect judgment, and a Christian and exemplary resignation.’
Footnote 125:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 126:
_A Summer’s Divertisement of Mathematical and Mechanical Curiosities, being an Account of the Things seen at the House of Curiosities, near Grange Park._ Edinburgh: James Watson. 1695.
Footnote 127:
Nicolas’s spelling is here given _literatim_.
Footnote 128:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 129:
From ‘a double of the oath’ in the _Kilravock Papers_, Spald. Club publication, p. 387.
Footnote 130:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 629.
Footnote 131:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 132:
‘James Peedie of Roughill and John Anderson of Dowhill were the first merchants who brought a loading of cherry-sack into this city.’—_M‘Ure’s Hist. Glasg._, p. 250.
Footnote 133:
Arnot’s _Criminal Trials_, p. 163.
Footnote 134:
Chalmers’s _Life of Ruddiman_, p. 30. Bower’s _Hist. Univ. of Edinburgh_, ii. 153.
Footnote 135:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 136:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 137:
These legends appear to have been intended to read as follows: ‘Three years thou shalt have to repent, and note it well. Wo be to thee, Scotland! Repent and take warning, for the doors of heaven are already barred against thee. I am sent for a warning to thee, to flee to God. Yet troubled shall this man be for twenty days and three. Repent, repent, Scotland, or else thou shalt’——.
Footnote 138:
On the 7th of January 1696, the Privy Council gave licence to George Mossman, stationer in Edinburgh, to ‘print and sell a book entitled _A True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions, and Actings of a Spirit which infested the House of Andrew Mackie, in Ring-croft of Stocking, in the Parish of Rerrick, &c._,’ with exclusive right of doing so for a year.
Footnote 139:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 140:
_Caledonian Mercury_, Nov. 20, 1732.
Footnote 141:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 142:
From _Information for his Majesty’s Advocate, &c., against James Edmonstoun of Newton_.
Footnote 143:
Maclaurin’s _Criminal Cases_, p. 10.
Footnote 144:
_Introductions, &c., to Waverley Novels_, i. 255.
Footnote 145:
_Acts of Scot. Par._, ix. 452.
Footnote 146:
Hugh Miller’s _Sketch-book of Popular Geology_, pp. 13, 14.
Footnote 147:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 148:
A few of the subscriptions are here subjoined: For £1000 each, the Faculty of Advocates, John Anderson of Dowhill, Provost of Glasgow, the Earl of Annandale; Alexander Brand, merchant in Edinburgh; James Balfour, merchant in Edinburgh; George Clerk, merchant in Edinburgh; Daniel Campbell, merchant in Glasgow; Sir Robert Dickson of Sorn-beg, Andrew Fletcher of Salton, the town of Glasgow, John Graham younger of Dougalston, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Yester, Sir David Home of Crossrig, Sir John Home of Blackader, Sir Alexander Hope of Kerse, William Hay of Drumelzier, Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Lockhart of Carnwath, William Livingstone of Kilsyth; George Lockhart, merchant in Glasgow; the Merchant House of Glasgow, the Marquis of Montrose, Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre, Francis Montgomery of Giffen, William Morison of Prestongrange, William Nisbet of Dirleton, Sir James Primrose of Carrington, the Countess of Rothes, the Countess of Roxburgh, Lord Ross, Lord Ruthven, William Robertson of Gladney, the Earl of Sutherland, the Earl of Southesk, Viscount Strathallan, Viscount Stair, Sir John Swinton, Sir Francis Scott of Thirlstain, Sir John Shaw of Greenock; Thomas Spence, writer in Edinburgh; John Spreul, _alias_ Bass John, merchant in Glasgow; the Marquis of Tweeddale, Viscount Tarbat; Robert Watson, merchant in Edinburgh; George Warrender, merchant there; and William Wardrop, merchant in Glasgow: for £1200, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh: for £1300, James Pringle of Torwoodlee: for £1500, the Earl of Argyle, William Lord Jedburgh, and Patrick Thomson, treasurer of Glasgow: for £2000, Mr Robert Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh; Sir Robert Chiesley, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, John Lord Glenorchy, Lord Basil Hamilton, the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl of Leven; William Menzies, merchant in Edinburgh; the town of Perth, Sir William Scott of Harden: for £3000, Lord Belhaven, the Good Town of Edinburgh, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Duke of Queensberry, the Easter Sugarie of Glasgow, and Sir John Stuart of Grandtully.
Footnote 149:
Scots Acts, _sub anno_ 1695.
Footnote 150:
[Sinclair’s] _Statistical Account of Scotland_, vi. 586.
Footnote 151:
In April 1703, John Dunbabbine, an Englishman, who in his own country had for several years followed the trade of pin-making ‘to the satisfaction of all those with whom he had any dealing,’ was now inclined to set up a work at Aberdeen, which he thought would be ‘very much for the advantage of the kingdom [of Scotland] and all the inhabitants thereof.’ All he required previously was his work being endowed with the privileges and immunities of a manufactory; which the Privy Council readily granted.
Footnote 152:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 153:
Mr James Foulis and Mr John Holland are probably identical with the persons of the same names who received some encouragement from the parliament in April 1693, for the setting up of a manufacture of _Colchester Baises_ in Scotland. See _Domestic Annals_, under that date.
Footnote 154:
See a pamphlet by Mr Holland, published in 1715, under the title of _The Ruine of the Bank of England and all Publick Credit inevitable_.
Footnote 155:
Exchange was not dealt in by the Bank of England, any more than the Bank of Scotland, during many of its earlier years.
Footnote 156:
_Account of the Bank of Scotland_, published in 1728.
Footnote 157:
_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 465.
Footnote 158:
_Culloden Papers_, Introduction, p. xliv.
Footnote 159:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 160:
Patrick Walker’s _Life of Donald Cargill_, _Biog. Pres._, ii. 24.
Footnote 161:
Patrick Walker.
Footnote 162:
Ibid.
Footnote 163:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 164:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 165:
We have no means of knowing if this concert was connected with the enterprise of Beck and his associates, noticed under January 10, 1694. The name of Beck does not occur in the list of performers on this occasion.
Footnote 166:
W. Tytler, _Trans. Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland_, i. 506.
Footnote 167:
Ramsay’s _Scribblers Lashed_.
Footnote 168:
Through her, as daughter of William first Duke of Queensberry, her descendant, the Earl of Wemyss, succeeded in 1810 to large estates in Peeblesshire and the earldom of March.
Footnote 169:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 170:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 171:
See under Feb. 2, 1693.
Footnote 172:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 173:
Ibid.
Footnote 174:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 175:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 176:
Printed informations in the case. Justiciary Records.
Footnote 177:
_Acts of Scot. Parliament._
Footnote 178:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 179:
The authority for this is a very bad one—the scurrilous book called _Scots Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_; but on such a point, with support from other quarters, it may be admitted.
Footnote 180:
Calamy’s Account of his Own Life.
Footnote 181:
Watson’s _Collection of Scots Poems_, 1709.
Footnote 182:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 183:
A tolerably full detail of Mr Hepburn’s persecutions is given in Struthers’s _Hist. Scot. from the Union to 1748_. 2 vols.
Footnote 184:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 185:
Scots Acts, vol. iii.
Footnote 186:
See _Domestic Annals_, under date August 24, 1669.
Footnote 187:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 188:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 189:
Records of Parliament and Privy Council.
Footnote 190:
_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 82.
Footnote 191:
Ibid.
Footnote 192:
_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 111.
Footnote 193:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 194:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 195:
The above account of the prosecution of Aikenhead is derived from Howell’s _State Trials_, in which there has been printed a collection of documents on the case, collected by John Locke.
Footnote 196:
Preface to _Two Sermons_, &c., by Mr Lorimer.
Footnote 197:
Foun., _Decisions_.
Footnote 198:
Privy Council Record, under various dates.
Footnote 199:
Signed at Glasgow, December 31, 1696.
Footnote 200:
_Domestic Annals_, _sub_ July 9, 1668, vol ii. p. 321.
Footnote 201:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 202:
Justiciary Record.
Footnote 203:
_New Stat. Acc. of Scotland_, iv. Wigton, 226.
Footnote 204:
Criminal Proceedings, &c., MS., in possession of Ant. Soc. Scot.
Footnote 205:
_New Stat. Acc. Scotland_, _ut supra_.
Footnote 206:
_Decisions_, i. 522.
Footnote 207:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 208:
_A Voyage to St Kilda_, &c., by M. Martin, Gent. 4th ed., 1753.
Footnote 209:
Macaulay’s _History of St Kilda_, 1766, p. 241.
Footnote 210:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 211:
Ibid.
Footnote 212:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 213:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 214:
_Letters from North of Scotland_, ii. 134 (2d ed.).
Footnote 215:
_Edin. Courant_, May 1720.
Footnote 216:
_Letters_, &c., i. 135.
Footnote 217:
Arnot’s _Crim. Trials_, Anderson’s _Hist. Fam. Fraser_, Carstares’s _State Papers_.
Footnote 218:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 219:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 220:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 221:
Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 5.
Footnote 222:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 223:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 224:
_Acts of General Assembly._
Footnote 225:
_Wodrow Pamphlets_, Adv. Lib.
Footnote 226:
Under extremity of suffering during the dearth, in September 1699, one David Chapman, belonging to Crieff, broke into a lockfast place, and stole some cheese, a sugar-loaf, and about four shillings sterling of money. His sole motive for the crime, as he afterwards pleaded, was the desire of relieving his family from the pains of want. Apprehended that day, he confessed the crime, and restored the spoil; yet, being tried by the commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands, he was condemned to death.
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: