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:
What seems sufficient to set this matter in a clear light is the fact
that, up to this time, such a thing as a sawn deal was unknown in the
Spey Highlands; they could only split a tree, and chip the pieces into
something like a deal; and some of the upper rooms of Castle-Grant are
actually floored of wood prepared in this manner.
Footnote 681:
At the end of the voyage, he took the curragh upon his back, and
trudged back to the point of departure. An example of this primitive
kind of canoe was exhibited at the archæological museum connected with
the British Association at Aberdeen, September 1859.
Footnote 682:
[Leslie’s] _Survey of the Province of Moray_, 1798, p. 267. Anderson’s
_British Poets_, viii. 655.
Footnote 683:
_Analecta_, _passim_.
Footnote 684:
Private Letters, &c., p. 66; also newspapers of the day.
Footnote 685:
Wodrow’s _Analecta_, iv. 97.
Footnote 686:
See under the year 1716 for some notice of her Grace’s services to the
country as a promoter of agricultural improvements.
Footnote 687:
Faculty Records, quoted in _Analecta Scotica_, ii. 170. The plate of
Sallust is now shewn under a glass-case in the Advocates’ Library.
Footnote 688:
_Biog. Memoirs of William Ged._ Nichols, London, 1781. To a daughter
of Ged, it was proposed that the profits of this publication, if any,
should be devoted; hence it may be inferred that the family continued
poor.
Footnote 689:
Mores’s _Narrative of Block-printing, with Notes, apud_ Topham and
Willett’s _Memoir on the Origin of Printing_. Newcastle, 1820.
Footnote 690:
Maitland’s _History of Edinburgh_, p. 460.
Footnote 691:
Arnot’s _History of Edinburgh_, p. 546.
Footnote 692:
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, v. 555.
Footnote 693:
The remaining verses of the poem are thus given in the _Scots
Magazine_ for June 1773:
‘Ah! where is now th’ innumerous crowd,
That once with fond attention hung
On every truth divine that flowed,
Improved from thy persuasive tongue!
’Tis gone!—it seeks a different road;
Life’s social joys to thee are o’er;
Untrod the path to that abode
Where hapless _Penury_ keeps the door.
Drummond! thine audience yet recall,
Recall the young, the gay, the vain;
And ere thy tottering fabric fall,
Sound forth the deeply moral strain.
For never, sure, could bard or sage,
_Howe’er_ inspired, more clearly shew,
That all upon this transient stage
Is folly, vanity, or woe.
Bid them at once be _warned_ and taught—
Ah, no!—suppress th’ ungrateful tale—
O’er every frailty, every fault,
_Oblivion_, draw _thy_ friendly veil.
Tell rather what transcendent joy
Awaits them on th’ immortal shore,
If well they _Summer’s_ strength employ,
And well distribute _Autumn’s_ store.
Tell them, if _Virtue_ crown their bloom,
_Time_ shall the happy period bring,
When the dark Winter of the tomb
Shall yield to everlasting _Spring_.’
Footnote 694: