[449]. Sir Hugh Dalrymple’s report of the case, quoted in Burton’s Criminal Trials, i. 55.
[450]. ‘The building of Inversnaid Fort was contracted for by —— Nasmyth, builder in Edinburgh, grandfather of Alexander Nasmyth, the well-known landscape-painter. One winter-night, Mr Nasmyth and his party of workmen were roused from sleep in their lodging at the rising fort by some travellers, who piteously beseeched shelter from the snow-storm. On the door being opened, Rob Roy’s men rushed in, and began to abuse the poor masons in a shocking manner; could scarcely be restrained from taking their lives; and finally drove or dragged them half-naked through the snow to a place where they dismissed them, after taking them solemnly bound by oath never to come back to that country. Mr Nasmyth, being held by government to a contract which he could not fulfil, was seriously injured in his means by this affair; but its worst consequence was the effect of the exposure of that dreadful night on his health. He sunk under his complaints about eighteen months after.’—Information communicated by Mr James Nasmyth, late of Patrickcroft, near Manchester.
[451]. Alamode, ‘a kind of thin silken manufacture.’—Johnson.
[452]. Fountainhall’s Decisions.
[453]. Analecta, ii. 76.
[454]. These expressions are from the Engagement to Duties, printed in Struthers’s Hist. Scot. from Union to 1748.
[455]. Analecta, i. 322.
[456]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 756.
[457]. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 85, 86.
[458]. Analecta Scotica, i. 877.