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: