[52]. Privy Council Record.
[53]. Privy Council Record.
[54]. Privy Council Record.
[55]. Burt’s Letters, i. 128.
[56]. A phrase of the time, found in the Privy Council Record.
[57]. John Callander, master-smith, petitioned the Privy Council in June 1689, regarding smith-work which he had executed for Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, to the amount of eleven hundred pounds sterling, whereof, though long due, he had ‘never yet received payment of a sixpence.’ On his earnest entreaty, three hundred pounds were ordered to be paid to account. On the ensuing 23d of August, he was ordained to be paid £6567, 17s. 2d., after a rigid taxing of his accounts, Scots money being of course meant. Connected with this little matter is an anecdote which has been told in various forms, regarding the estate of Craigforth, near Stirling. It is alleged that the master-smith, failing to obtain a solution of the debt from the Scottish Exchequer, applied to the English treasury, and was there so fortunate as to get payment of the apparent sum in English money. Having out of this unexpected wealth made a wadset on the estate of Craigforth, he ultimately fell into the possession of that property, which he handed down to his descendants.[[58]] John Callander was grandfather of a gentleman of the same name, who cultivated literature with assiduity, and was the editor of two ancient Scottish poems—The Guberlunzie Man, and Christ’s Kirk on the Green. This gentleman, again, was grandfather to Mrs Thomas Sheridan and Lady Graham of Netherby.
[58]. Sir James Campbell’s Memoirs. A Week at the Bridge of Allan, by Charles Rogers, 1853, p. 334.
[59]. Justiciary Records.
[60]. Privy Council Record.
[61]. Privy Council Record.