[439]. History of the Art of Printing, Edinburgh, 1713.
[440]. Lee’s Memorial for the Bible Societies, 1824, p. 168.
[441]. Watson was a man of some merit, and deserves to be remembered as the first publisher of a collection of Scottish poetry. His death, with the style of ‘his majesty’s printer,’ on the 24th September 1722, is noticed by the Edinburgh Courant. He appears to have thriven by his patent, as the paragraph stating his widow’s death, a few years later, adverts to the considerable means which had been left to her, and which she then left to a second husband.
[442]. Brochure of two pages, Miscellany Papers, Adv. Lib.
[443]. Wodrow’s Analecta.
[444]. Wodrow Correspondence, index.
[445]. Wodrow MSS., Adv. Lib., and printed entire in A New Book of Ballads, Edinburgh, 1844. Lockhart admits that Cockburn was not one of the most respectable of the Episcopal clergy.
[446]. Strange News from Scotland, or Scotch Presbyterian Piety evidently proved by the Regard they shew to Consecrated Churches; a late Instance whereof may be seen at this Day at Dunglass, belonging to Sir James Hall, Bart., near Cockburnspath. Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers’ Hall. 1712.
[447]. Courant newspaper, quoted in Reliquiæ Scoticæ.
[448]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 735, 738.