[369]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 527.
[370]. Book of the Thanes of Cawdor (Spald. Club), p. 417.
[371]. This anecdote is related in a memoir of President Forbes (Scots Magazine, 1802), as having been derived from his lordship’s own conversation.
[372]. Broadside of the time.
[373]. Privy Council Record.
[374]. Analecta Scotica, i. 238.
[375]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 59.
[376]. The town of Kirkcaldy was at the same time favoured with a like imposition on its beer, with certain little drawbacks or burdens, as ten pounds a year to the professor of mathematics in King’s College, Aberdeen, and twenty-five to the seven macers of parliament.
[377]. Colonel Erskine had purchased the earl’s estates in 1700.
[378]. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 273.