[429]. Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland, p. 10.
[430]. Letter of Campbell of Burnbank. Argyle Papers, p. 187.
[431]. Analecta, i. 309, 313.
[432]. 9 Anne, c. 10.
[433]. ‘The Tinklarian Doctor, in one of his singular pamphlets addressed to the French king, and commencing: “Old Lewis, may it please your majesty,” asks, “I would fain ken, Lewis, if ever you heard of me, for many times I have heard of you, and more in the pulpits than anywhere else; and if you were as oft at your own kirks in France as you are in our pulpits in Scotland, you’d be very sib [akin] to the kirk—so nearest the kirk, nearest the devil.”‘—Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils, p. 74.
[434]. In the catalogue of a sale by Messrs Puttock and Simpson, Leicester Square, London, June 1860, the following group of articles occurs:
‘157 Mitchell (Will.), the “Tinklarian Doctor” of Edinburgh, Tracts by, viz.:
‘Inward and Outward Light to be Sold. A wonderful Sermon preached by the Tinklarian Doctor William Mitchell, in the sixty-first year of his age, concerning Predestination. 1731.
‘Second Day’s Journey of the Tinklarian Doctor. 1733.
‘Short History, to the Commendation of the Royal Archers, with a Description of six of the Dukes in Scotland, especially Argile, written by the Tinklarian Doctor, with a remarkable Colloquy in Verse at the end, entitled One Man’s Meat is another Man’s Poison. 1734.