[9] Robertson's History of Scotland, ii. 32.
[10] Wood's Peerage. The year of his birth is not stated.
[11] Cunningham's History of Great Britain, i. 326.
[12] Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 100.
[13] Chambers's Biography, art. Erskine.
[14] See Dr. Coxe's MSS. in the British Museum, vol. iii.
[15] Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 98.
[16] Lockhart's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 114.
[17] Lockhart, vol. i. p. 45.
[18] Granger, vol. ii. p. 31. Somerville's Queen Anne, p. 184.