[122]. Analecta, ii. 250. Wodrow tells us that Lady Dundee had been very violent against the Presbyterians, and ‘used to say she wished that, that day she heard a Presbyterian minister, the house might fall down and smother her, which it did.’
[123]. Analecta Scotica, i. 187. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 250.
[124]. William Livingstone survived his wife nearly forty years. In the Caledonian Mercury for February 6, 1733, is this paragraph: ‘We are assured private letters are in town, giving account, that on the 12th of last month, the Right Hon. the late Viscount Kilsyth died at Rome, in an advanced age, in perfect judgment, and a Christian and exemplary resignation.’
[125]. Privy Council Record.
[126]. A Summer’s Divertisement of Mathematical and Mechanical Curiosities, being an Account of the Things seen at the House of Curiosities, near Grange Park. Edinburgh: James Watson. 1695.
[127]. Nicolas’s spelling is here given literatim.
[128]. Privy Council Record.
[129]. From ‘a double of the oath’ in the Kilravock Papers, Spald. Club publication, p. 387.
[130]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 629.
[131]. Privy Council Record.