[497]. A Treatise on Forest Trees, in a Letter, &c., published at Edinburgh in 1761.
[498]. Perhaps Sir Archibald was wrong here. See the account of Baldoon Park in this volume, under the date October 1696.
[499]. Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 97.
[500]. The above facts are gathered from an anonymous volume, published in 1729, entitled An Essay on the Means of Enclosing and Fallowing Scotland.
[501]. MS. of Graham of Gartmore, App. to Burt’s Letters, 2d ed., ii. 349.
[502]. Gordon of Ellon, son to a farmer in Bourtie—a merchant in Edinburgh, and once a bailie there, and a rich man. By him the house of Ellon was built anew in a handsome style.—View of Diocese of Aberdeen, Spal. Club, p. 301 (written about beginning of the 18th century).
[503]. In February 1721, John Webster, a gardener, having committed murder upon a young woman named Campbell, ‘on Heriot’s Hospital ground, behind our town-wall,’ was tried in the barony of Broughton, and condemned to die.
[504]. Celebrated Trials, iii. 272 (name and date of incident there given erroneously). Scottish Journal, Oct. 23, 1847. Contemporary confession. Notes and Queries, Dec. 1859, quoting three numbers of the contemporary newspaper, the Scots Courant.
[505]. Broadside reprinted in Analecta Scotica, i. 246.
[506]. Letter of Rev. Mr Murray, dated Comrie Manse, 2d July, 1717; Ant. Scot. Transactions, iii. 296.