[712]. Wodrow’s Analecta.
[713]. Domestic Ann. Scot., ii. 495.
[714]. See under June 24, 1736.
[715]. It is rather curious that, in a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by a fire in the Lawnmarket of Edinburgh, in 1725, ‘Colonel Francis Charteris, £4, 4s.’ is the only contribution from a private individual. Uncharitable onlookers would probably consider this as intended for an insurance against another fire on the part of the subscriber.
[716]. Private Letters, &c., p. 80.
[717]. Gentleman’s Magazine, ii. 674.
[718]. Caledonian Mercury.
[719]. Cal. Mercury, August 8, 1732.
[720]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 136.
[721]. Caledonian Mercury, May and July 1733.