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: