[516]. Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 14, 1722. ‘On Tuesday last [19th January 1725], being the birthday of Prince Frederick, there was an extraordinary appearance of ladies and persons of distinction, at a musick opera in this city.’—Ibid.
[517]. M‘Gibbon died on the 3d October 1756, bequeathing the whole of his means to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
[518]. ‘My Lord Colville died in March last, and about Culross it is very currently believed that he has appeared more than once, and has been seen by severals. Some say that he appeared to Mr Logan, his brother-in-law [minister of Torry]; but he does not own it. Two of his servants were coming to the house, and saw him walking near them; and, if I remember, he called to them just in the same voice and garb he used to be in; but they fled from him, and came in, in a great fright. They are persons of credibility and gravity, as I am told.”[[521]]
[519]. Arnot’s Hist. Edinburgh, p. 379.
[520]. Adam Craig died in October 1741. For this and several facts involved in the above article, I have to express my obligation to Mr David Laing’s Introduction to Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum.
[521]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 519.
[522]. Analecta Scotica, i. 195.
[523]. Ibid. ii. 830.
[524]. From documents printed in Law’s Memorials.
[525]. George Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 83.