In a letter of Mr James Anderson, editor of the Diplomata Scotiæ, to his son, Edinburgh, June 20, 1717, it is noted, as a recent event, that ‘Rob Roi surrendered to D. Atholl, but not meeting with such things as he expected, has made his escape.’—MSS., Adv. Library.
[507]. Steele’s Correspondence, edited by John Nicholls. 2 vols. 1787.
[508]. Streams from Helicon, 1720, p. 48.
[509]. He wrote to his daughter on the 17th September and 7th October, 1720, from Edinburgh.—Steele’s Letters.
[510]. Analecta Scotica, i. 16.
[511]. Cibber’s [Shiels’s] Lives of the Poets, iv. 118.
[512]. Gibson’s History of Glasgow, 1777, p. 208. It was asserted that the duties paid to government for tobacco brought to Glasgow between August 1716 and March 1722, amounted to no more than £2702. A representation for the Glasgow merchants shewed that the real sum was £38,047, 17s. 0¾d.—Edin. Ev. Courant, Jan. 21, 1723.
[513]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 129.
[514]. The City of Edinburgh’s Address to the Country, Ramsay’s Poems, i. 19.
[515]. Journey through Scotland [by Macky?], 1723, p. 274.