May Hopetoun flourish still with Lady Hen-
Rietta, and have a stock of good childrén.[[241]]
[241]. Wodrow Pamphlets, Adv. Lib.
[242]. See Blackwood’s Magazine, ix. 345.
[243]. Privy Council Record.
[244]. Ibid.
[245]. Of this fact, the use of the word siller for money generally in Scotland is a notable memorial.
[246]. Account of Bank of Scotland, p. 6.
[247]. Letter of Earl of Argyle, Carstares Papers, 458.
[248]. James Donaldson seems to have been engaged in the poetic elegy trade; that is, the writing of deplorations in verse on great personages for sale in the streets: see an example of his verse of this description under November 1695. He seems also to have been the author of Husbandry Anatomised, or an Enquiry into the Present Manner of Tilling and Manuring the Ground in Scotland, 12mo, 1697; and of A Picktooth for Swearers, or a Looking-glass for Atheists and Profane Persons, &c., small 4to, 1698. See Scottish Elegiac Verses, with Notes, 1847.