[178] Mercurius Politicus, May 20, 1658.
[179] Baillie’s Letters, iii. 387.
[180] Lives of the Lyndsays, i. 296.
[181] Parliamentary Diary, iv. 168. Desborough, along with one Downing, represented Edinburgh in the parliament which Cromwell assembled at Westminster in 1654.
[182] Baillie. Letters, iii. 438. The countess is said by Baillie to have been the medium through which the Scottish nobility acted on General Monk, in prompting him to go to London, just before the Restoration.
[183] A Journey through Scotland, in Familiar Letters, &c. 8vo. London, 1723.
[184] In August 1657, his son, Lord Linton, was cited before the presbytery of Peebles for certain scandalous miscarriages—as, frequent absence from church, drinking, and swearing. He submitted, and was rebuked. On the 3d of December of the same year, ‘the presbytery, taking into their consideration a letter of complaint formerly sent unto them by the Lord Linton, complaining of his father as slandering him of unnatural dealing towards his parents,’ appointed a committee to speak with them both, and report. Lord Linton was afterwards asked to give in particulars of his complaint, but he does not appear to have complied with the request.
[185] Inverness Courier, January 1851.
[186] Stirk, a young ox. Hawkit, white-faced.
[187] John Mean had assisted Montrose and the Engagement, and incurred losses on these accounts. Acts of S. Parl., vii., App. 93.