In the MSS. a copy of Macleod’s letter is given, and it runs thus:—
Reverend Dr. Sir,
You’l received from the bearer all that was to the for of the weast Coat that the P. gave to me, because no Body cou’d get it where I put it till I came home my self likwise tow of the Buttons that wor in it. I cou’d get that from Kingsborrow you desired me ——. However he has it. I have more to tell you when I see ——. Writ to me by the Bearer mind me most kindly to Lady Bruce & all aquantance Especiall Lady Balmirina & her sister.
I’m your very humble servant,
MAL MACLEOD.
Rasay, October 13, 1747.
The MSS., sold by the bishop’s widow to Sir Henry Steuart of Allanton, were acquired by Robert Chambers, who presented them to the Library. An account of the MSS. appears in Chambers’s Jacobite Memoirs. Edinburgh, 1834.
XVI. MACDONALD