[671]. Representation by the linen-drapers at the bar of the House of Commons, Jan. 1720.
[672]. Letter in the Paper-office, quoted by Chalmers, Caledonia, i. 873, note.
[673]. Analecta, iii. 452.
[674]. Private Letters, &c., p. 59.
[675]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant.
[676]. Mr Wodrow relates that, about the same time, a number of ministers in England met occasionally together under the name of the Orthodox Club, and ‘frequently their conversation is gay and jocose’—‘gay and’ being here a Scotch adverb meaning considerably.
[677]. Private Letters, &c., p. 61.
[678]. State Trials, ix. 26. Arnot’s Crim. Trials, p. 190.
[679]. Private Letters, &c., p. 64. Mr Lindsay was soon after lord provost and member for the city, in which latter capacity he made a remarkably good speech in the House of Commons on the bill for taking away the privileges of the corporation in consequence of the Porteous Riot. See Gentleman’s Magazine, vii. 457.
[680]. What seems sufficient to set this matter in a clear light is the fact that, up to this time, such a thing as a sawn deal was unknown in the Spey Highlands; they could only split a tree, and chip the pieces into something like a deal; and some of the upper rooms of Castle-Grant are actually floored of wood prepared in this manner.