[42]. Privy Council Record.
[43]. A portrait of the house, and some particulars of the family, are to be found in Robert Stuart’s Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former Times, 4to, 1847.
[44]. This must have been Lady Raeburn (Anne Scott of Ancrum).
[45]. Probably his sister Isobel’s husband, described in Burke as Captain Anderson.
[46]. Acts of General Assembly, 1690, p. 18.
[48]. Melville Correspondence, p. 150. The parliament, on the 18th July 1690, gave a warrant for subjecting one Muir or Ker to the torture, in order to expiscate the truth regarding the murder of an infant, of which he was vehemently suspected.
[49]. Mr Burton, in his History of Scotland from 1689 to 1748, gives the following account of this nobleman: ‘The Earl of Crawford, made chairman of the Estates and a privy councillor, was the only statesman of the day who adopted the peculiar demeanour and scriptural language of the Covenanters. It is to him that Burnet and others attribute the severities against the Episcopal clergymen, and the guidance of the force brought to bear in the parliament and Privy Council in favour of a Presbyterian establishment.’
[50]. Melville Correspondence. Privy Council Record.
[51]. Privy Council Record.