[77] Patrick Walker, Some Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr Daniel Cargill, &c. Edinb. 1732. (Reprinted in Biographia Presbyteriana. Edinb. 1827, II. 25.)
[78] Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland. 1st ed. III. 62.
[79] Ibid. II. 544.
[80] Ibid. VI. 122.
[81] In the remote parish of Kilmuir, Skye, the famine is referred to the year 1688, “when the poor actually perished on the highways for want of aliment.” (Ibid. II. 551.) In Duthil and Rothimurchus, Invernessshire, the famine is referred to 1680, “as nearly as can be recollected:” “A famine in this and the neighbouring counties, of the most fatal consequence. The poorer sort of people frequented the churchyard to pull a mess of nettles, and frequently struggled about the prey, being the earliest spring greens.... So many families perished from want that for six miles in a well-inhabited extent, within the year there was not a smoke remaining.” (Ibid. IV. 316.) In the Kirk session records of the parish of Kiltearn, Rossshire, which I have seen in MS., there are various entries in the year 1697 relating to badges of lead to be worn by those licensed to beg from door to door: on 12 April, 34 such persons are named, and on 19 April, Robert Douglas was reimbursed for the cost of 35 badges. On 2 Aug., the number of poor who were to receive each from the heritors ten shillings Scots reads like “nighentie foure.”
[82] John Freind, M.D., Nine Commentaries on Fevers, transl. by T. Dale. London, 1730.
[83] Cal. Coke MSS. II. 405.
[84] Joannes Turner, De Febre Britannica Anni 1712. Lond. 1713, p. 3. “Vere proximè elapso, per Gallias passim ingravescere coeperunt febres mali moris in nobiles domos, et regiam praecipue infestae; quò Ludovicum Magnum ipsa infortunia ostenderent Majorem, et patientia Christianissima Maximum.”
[85] From London, on 25 February, 1701, we hear of the illness from a violent fever of Mr Brotherton, at his house in Chancery Lane; he was member for Newton, and Mr Coke was advised to look after his seat. A letter of 18 April, 1701, from Chilcote, in Derbyshire, says that it has been a sickly time in these parts and that a certain lady and her daughter were both dead and to be buried the same day. In the same correspondence, cases of fever in London are mentioned on 18 June and 4 December the same year (1701). Cal. Coke MSS. II. 421, 424, 429, 441.
[86] Tractatus Duplex. Lond. 1710. Engl. transl. 1737, p. 253.