[168] Bringing down the price, perhaps alluding to Zech. xi. 31.
[169] I have no want of.
[170] My being silenced as to preaching, and my grief, keep me from saying.
[171] Spin fine.
[172] Ask.
[173] Kirkcudbright.
[174] Leave the mark of their teeth.
[175] Unbelief has not its origin in reason.
[176] There is a village of Craighall near Inveresk, in the barony of Pinkie, which got its name from this family, just as there is an Earlston in Borgue parish, called from the old Earlston.
[177] Who is here meant cannot now be well ascertained. It may have been Mr. Loudian, of whom Baillie says, "He was an excellent philosophe, sound and orthodox, opposite to Canterbury's way, albeit too conform. I counselled oft Glasgow to have him for their Divinity Lecturer" ("Letters and Journals," i. 77).