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The Miscellany of the Spalding Club MISCELLANY THE SPALDING CLUB. ABEKDEBN : PKINTED BY WILLIAM BENNETT. THE MISCELLANY OF THE SPALDING CLUB, VOLUME THIRD. ABERDEEN: PRINTED I OR THE CLUB. M DCCC XLVI. ^cesnitfti to t|)p ^paltiitig oriub, THE VISCOUNT ARBUTHNOTT. LORD SALTOUN. THE RIGHT REVEREND DR. KYLE. P. CHALMERS OF AULDBAK WILLIAM GORDON OF FYVIE. HENRY LUMSDEN OF AUCHINDOIR. MAJOR-GENERAL H. ARBUTHNOTT, M.P. ALEXANDER PIRIE, JUNIOR, ABERDEEN. BERIAH BOTFIELD, M.P. SIR JOHN GLADSTONE OF FASQUE. SIR Wm. G. G. GUMMING, BARt. COLONEL ERASER OF CASTLE FRASER. ALEXANDER MORISON OF BOGNIE. JAMES EWING OF STRATHLEVEN. ALEXANDER THOMSON OF BANCHORY. VILLA. J. W. K. EYTON OF ELGIN JOHN BLAIKIE OF CRAIGIEBUCKLER. ROBERT SIMPSON OF COBAIRDY. J. A. GORDON OF KNOCKESPOCK TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Letters of I>ord Grange _. 1 The Book op the Annualrentaris and Wedsettaris within the Shirrefdome of Abirdein. 1633 . 71 Minutes op the Committee for Loan Monies and Taxations of the Shire op Aberdeen. 1643 _„ 143 Summons against the Magistratks of Aberdren. 1591 — 155 Process against the Egvptians at Banff. 1700, 175 List of Goods plundered from Tenants in Cromar. 1644-47 195 Protestation by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum against the Pres- bytery of Aberdeen. 1652 205 The Gordon Letters „ 209 Inquisitio Facta apud Keandkochit de Privilegiis Reliquiae Sancti Fillani. 1428 239 Articles op Agreement between the Earl of Huntly and the Regent Murray 243 ^i)e ^tiitov'^ i^VttHCt ^(^HE contents of the following sheets do not seem to require much prefatory remark. The plan of the Work generally is the same with that followed in the previous Volumes of The Club's Miscellanies ; and a few words of explanation on the several papers printed in the subsequent pages, are all that appear to be called for in this place I. iLettfrg of Horti CGrange. The Honourable James Erskine—better known in Scotland by his judicial style of Lord Grange^was the immediate younger brother of John, Earl of Marr, the leader of the rising in behalf of the Stuarts, in the year 1715. He was born in the year 1679, and, having been called to the Scottish bar in 1705, was two years afterwards raised to the bench of the Court of Session. In the year 1710, his brother's influence with the Tory ministry of the day served to secure for him the office of Lord Justice Clerk,' which he kept until the death of Queen Anne, in 1714. He took no share in the Jacobite enterprise of the subsequent year which led to the forfeiture of his brother, and the loss ultimately of the last ' Carstare's State Papers, pp. 787—789. Vm THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. remains of the once great inheritance in the North fmni which tlie family took its title. Lord Grange, on the other hand, affected to be a zealous Presbyterian, and a devoted adherent of the House of Hanover ; and as such he figures prominently in the Diary or Anaiecta of the industrious Wodrow, supplying that writer with shreds of the Court gossip which he loved so dearly,' taking a conspicuous part in the proceedings of the General Assembly,^ or discussing abstruse questions of theology with the leading divines of the Kirk.* The honesty of his profes- .sions, both in religion and politics, did not escape question : on one occasion we find him complaining " that he was e.xtremely abused by not a few at Edinburgh, and represented as a hypocrite and pretender to religion, as a Jacobite and in the same bottome with his brother, the Earl of Mar, and spoken of very much for his visiting his cousine, Mrs. Baderstoii ;"' and on another he informs his corre- spondent that placards had been affixed on his door, at the Market Cross, and on the gates of the Assembly of the Kirk, demanding to know " whither my Lord Grange be a Jesuit or not ? whither he be a pensioner of the Pope ? whither he can answer these queries ? and whither, if he answer them, he ought to bi- believed ?" ^ This is no place for discussing the justice of these imputations, and the confidential letters which are now printed must be left to speak for themselves as to the writer's sincerity. They certainly contain no evidence of partiality to the cause of the exiled Royalists ; but it may be permitted to doubt how far they are in all places consistent with the character of devotion which I^ord (irange was so anxious to maintain. Honest Wodrow would probably have somewhat modified his opinion of his lordship, liad he been permitted to read liis sneers at " the usual honesty of clergymen in the Church judicatorys, runnins; headlong against the weak, and servilely crouching to the prevailing."'' ' tfit) Wuiiniw's Anaiecta, vol. ii, p. 376; vol. iii. pp. 467— : vol. iv. pp. 141— 14« • 1 J vol. ii. p. 227 ; vol . iii. pp. 206. 358, 359, 498, 511; vol. iv. p. 254. ' '* A.D. 1725. My Lord Grange telLs me a strange passage which hapned in the tinie of tlie committy with Mr. Simson. One day, when they were waiting for Mr. Simson, and had sent for him to a sub-committy in my Lord's Chamber, to fill the field, my Lord proposed a question for conversation. Wherein the Spirit's proper work upon the soul did lye ? or whither there was any- tliing further necessary to be done by the Spirit for spirituall actions but the irradiations of spi. : 20". rituall light on the mind, and tht- strenthning of the mind to receive it (Id vol. iii. ]. i • Id. vol. iii. p. Mi. Id. vol. iii. p. 510. ,; r. 27. THE EUITOR'S PREFACE. ix In the year 1734, Lord Grange resigned his seat on the Scottish Bench, in order that he might enter on the wider field of British politics in the great combination of parties which then began to press Sir Robert Walpole to his downfal. In this career, he met with considerable success, though it fell short of what his ambition had shaped out, his highest reward being the office of Secretary to the Prince of Wales. He died at London, on the 24th of January, 1754. Some of the letters now printed afford a curious picture of the state of parties at the time, and the political intrigues of Sir Robert Walpole and his Scotch allies. Lord Grange is now chiefly remembered for the romantic story of his wife, which has long filled an interestuig page in popular literature.' This unhappy lady was the daughter of that Chiesly of Dairy, who assassinated the Lord President of the Court of Session, in the streets of Edinburgh, on Sunday, the .31st of March, 1689-^ Some portion of the father's violent temper appears to have descended to the daughter, and, aggravated by drunkenness,^ rendered her marriage for many years miserable, and led at last, in the year 17.30, to her formal separation from her husband. The annoyance which she still inflicted on him determined him to take measures for placing her in strict and secret confine- ment ; and on the evening of the 22nd of January, 1732, she was suddenly seized by a party of Highlanders, and carried ofl" from her residence in Edinburgh, under cloud of night. She was taken, in the first place, to Lord Lovat's country, and thence to the island of Hesker, where she remained two years, being removed at the end of that time to the remote islet of St. Kilda. Here she was detained for seven years, when tidings of her situation reaching her friends in Edinburgh, measures were taken for her release, which, though they failed of complete success, procured her removal to the less distant island of Harris, where she ended her days in May, 1745. The letters now printed must considerably impair the mystery of the reasons which led to the abduction of Lady Grange. They may be conclusively held to refute the supposition,* that the aflTairhad any connection with the political intrigues of the period. The necessity of her seclusion was, indeed ' It found a place in Buswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, published in the vear 17aj. - An account of the murder, written four days after the event, is printed in the lliscellany of the Spalding Club, vol, ii. pp. 296, 297. ' Wodrow's Analecta, vol. iv. p. 16.5. * Life of Dr Johnson, vol. ii. p. 451. Jlr. broker's edition. — X THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. confessed by her own friends,' who wished only that she might be placed in a situation where her health and comfort might be duly provided for. The Aber- deenshire seat of her daughter, the Countess of Kintore, seems at one time to have been suggested as a fit place for her residence,^ but Keith-Hall missed this distinction, as at a later period it escaped the notoriety to which the last Earl Mareschal had destined it—of affording a refuge to a more widely celebrated monomaniac, Jean Jacques Rosseau.^ The letters of Lord Grange now submitted to the Club are printed from the originals in the possession of Captain Knight Erskine of Pittodrie. They were addressed to his lordship's kinsman, Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie, a gentleman of ancient blood and considerable estates in the Garioch, who took arms with his chief in the rising of 1715, and survived to lend the benefit of his counsels to the Jacobite captains of 1745, when age or prudence kept him from taking the field in person.'' II. tUfft ISoofe of t\)t annualrcntariB of EfterUeen.
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