Domestic annals of Scotland

by Robert Chambers

[320]. Privy Council Record.

[321]. His lordship died in 1714.

[322]. Privy Council Record.

[323]. Caledonia, i. 881, note.

[324]. Arnot’s Hist. Edinburgh, 4to, p. 195. It would appear that the combativeness of the cock furnished in those days no insignificant part of the amusements of the English people. We find in the London newspapers of March 1720, the following paragraph, speaking strongly of the prevalence of the sport: ‘On the last Monday of the month, there will be kept a famous cocking betwixt the gentlemen of Shropshire and Cheshire, at Mr George Smith’s, at the Red Lion, at Whitchurch.’

[325]. Reliquiæ Scoticæ (Edin. 1828).

[326]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot. iii. 378.

[327]. This tourist’s manuscript, after lying for many years in the possession of Mr Johnes of Hafod, was printed by Mr Blackwood of Edinburgh in 1818.

[328]. Dom. Ann. of Scotland, ii. 494.

[329]. Ibid. ii. 282.