[132]. ‘James Peedie of Roughill and John Anderson of Dowhill were the first merchants who brought a loading of cherry-sack into this city.’—M‘Ure’s Hist. Glasg., p. 250.
[133]. Arnot’s Criminal Trials, p. 163.
[134]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 30. Bower’s Hist. Univ. of Edinburgh, ii. 153.
[135]. Privy Council Record.
[136]. Privy Council Record.
[137]. These legends appear to have been intended to read as follows: ‘Three years thou shalt have to repent, and note it well. Wo be to thee, Scotland! Repent and take warning, for the doors of heaven are already barred against thee. I am sent for a warning to thee, to flee to God. Yet troubled shall this man be for twenty days and three. Repent, repent, Scotland, or else thou shalt’——.
[138]. On the 7th of January 1696, the Privy Council gave licence to George Mossman, stationer in Edinburgh, to ‘print and sell a book entitled A True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions, and Actings of a Spirit which infested the House of Andrew Mackie, in Ring-croft of Stocking, in the Parish of Rerrick, &c.,’ with exclusive right of doing so for a year.
[139]. Privy Council Record.
[140]. Caledonian Mercury, Nov. 20, 1732.
[141]. Privy Council Record.