[231]. Privy Council Record. Fountainhall’s Decisions.
[232]. Scots Acts, iii. 628.
[233]. [Leslie’s] Survey of the Province of Moray, p. 280.
[234]. The father of the present Earl of Stair, Sir John Dalrymple, was born in 1726, and might have heard these particulars from his grand-uncle, the second President Dalrymple, who died in 1737. Sir John’s Memoirs of Great Britain are here followed, therefore, as the best authority available.
[235]. Dalrymple’s Memoirs.
[236]. Memoirs of John Macky, Esq., 1733, p. 205.
[237]. Acts of S. Parl., x. 136. Wodrow’s History, i. 320.
[238]. Privy Council Record.
[239]. Ibid.
[240]. This gentleman, who became Earl of Hopetoun, first of the title, was married, on the 31st August 1699, to ‘the very vertuous Lady Henrietta Johnston,’ daughter of the Earl of Annandale. A congratulatory poem on the occasion contains the following passage: