T H E M O N R O

O F A U C H I N B O W I E

A N D C OGN ATE F A M I LI ES

JOHN A LEX AND ER IN GLIS

E D I N B U R G H

ABLE PRIVATELY PRINTED BY T. AND A. CONST

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MY object has been to trace and arrange as accurately as possible the historical material relating to a branch of the i Monro family, which I have called for conven ence the

’ Au hin e Monros of c bowi .

As u di I have made a f ll sclosure of my authorities , and I have provided a copious index , hope the book may be

ul usef to other workers in the field of genealogy.

n nn I have i cluded the Bi ing family, as they were direct

Mrs Al r S eaundus n ancestors of . exander Mon o ( ) , whose you ger son, David, inherited the family name and traditions from

i lli nni hi s . his cous n , Wi am Bi ng, the last of race

Th e last five chapters deal with the Scotts of B a vela w and the Boyds of Kipps and of Temple . They also were

of nni direct ancestors the later Monros through the Bi ngs , and though I have little to offer except the bare facts of

- genealogy and land transfer, I have included them for the sake of completeness .

ll n I must gratefu y ack owledge the kindness of my friend,

. W. S. Mr James Steuart, , who read my manuscript, and made several valuable suggestions .

C O N T E N T S

C RAP. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE MONROS

SIR ALEX AN DER MON RO OF BEARCROFTS

III O O O O O OF . C L NEL GE RGE M NR AUCHINBOWIE AND HIS DESCENDANTS

JOH MO O SU EO IN EDI BU H N NR , RG N N RG

PROFESSOR ALEX AN DER MONRO (P RIM US)

V SIR O L C O L OF SL T I. D NA D MA D NA D EA

II H O O OF AUCHINB WIE V C V . JO M O AD O TE N NR , A

O L O O DR. D NA D M NR

PROFESSOR ALEX ANDER MONRO ( SE C UN D US)

PROFESSOR ALEX ANDER MONRO ( TERTI US)

DR J MES C MICH EL - SMYTH . A AR A

V O O B HIS SC TS X II. DA ID M NR INNING AND DE ENDAN

XIII THE A LY OF P O SSO L X O . F MI R FE R A E ANDER M NRO ( TERTI US)

THE GS OF WALLYFORD X IV. BINNIN

IR W X V. S ILLIAM BINNING

V C H LES BI I OF P ILMUIR X I. AR NN NG

I THE MO T OME YS OF BROOMLAND S XV I. N G R

II THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW X VI . CONTENTS

C RAP .

x1x . LAU E CE SC OTT OF HARPERRIG DIED 1637 R N ,

L U E CE S TT OF BAVELAW DIED 1 669 A R N CO ,

X X I. THE BOYDS OF KIPPS

ST OY or T xxn. EPHEN B D EMPLE

INDEX I L L U S T R A T I O N S

P AG E

AUCHINBOW IE

JOH N MONRO

PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P rimus)

G O G M AR AT MRS . E R E HO E OF G Y

P ROFESSOR A LEX ANDER MONRO (Semmdus)

L A D O O S undus MRS . A EX N ER M NR ( ec )

PROF ESSOR A LEXANDER MONRO ( Tertius)

L A D O ius MRS . A EX N ER MONR (Tert )

BAVELAW

2 6 nd re u s l n in Ma Geo M n N os. a 7 a m i b , , fro p ct re e o g g to j or rge o ro,

i a i u b n in A lV M n o An kin 4 s om . . a N o. fr p ct re elo g g to o ro f

b wi N os 3 5 a nd 8 a re om n a vin s. o e, . , , fr e gr g

C O A T S O F A R M S

S IR A LEXANDER MO NRO SIR DONALD M ACDONALD

PROFESSOR A LEXANDER M ON RO (Secnndus)

SIR WILLIAM BINNING

GEORGE MONTGOMERY OF BROOMLANDS

LA F A LAW 6 . URENC E SCOTT O B VE

P E D I' G R E E S

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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES

k f a = B f il d S si s nd S . ook s o oun a n es on. Boo o C . C c

= f Sa in s S . ra i R . Gene l Re ster o s e . G . g

= P ti ula R ist r f Sa sin s. P R. S . a c e e o e . r r g

= i R. Re ster of th e P iv oun i f S tla nd . P . C . g r y C c l o co

= M S . i i i i G a t Sea l f S la nd . R . i Ma n S ll Re ist f th e re o ot . Re strum e o g g g , g r c

= P . th R. S Re ister of Priv S l . g e y ea .

CHAPTER I

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE MONROS

THE home of the clan Munro is a district lying into the u Mackenzie co ntry on the north shore of the Cromarty Firth .

The chief seat of the clan is , and has been since the beginning Foulis of the twelfth century, the Castle of , and the Barons Foulis u r of trace their descent from Hugh M n o , who died 2 about 1 1 6 . The branch of the family which includes Sir Alexander Monro of B ea rcrofts and the Monros of Auch inbowie is said n r Milntown to have sprung from Joh Mon o of , son of Hugh f F o uli nr O s. Th e Milntown Mu o , ninth Baron family are the r n senior cadets of the clan , and thei descendants are disti guish ed from the other branches by the spelling of the name ’ t Monro . Miln own lies on the Bay of Nigg near the site of

the present Tarbat House . r fi John Mon o , who lost an arm at a clan ght between the a nd n Cla ch na h a rr 1454 Munros the Macki toshes at y in , is f i described as a bold , orward, dar ng gentleman, esteemed ’ 1 by his sovereign and loved by his friends . He died about 14 5 A dr 7 , and was succeeded by his elder son, n ew Mor r l Mon o , a bold, austere and gal ant gentleman, esteemed ’ by his friends and a terror to his enemies . About the year 1500 Andrew built the castle of Milntown of r in spite the opposition of his neighbou s , the Rosses of Ba lna h gown. John Earl of Sutherland went imself in ’ person to defend them [the Monros] from Ba lna gown s brag

1 - Ma k n i is o the M a n as . 265 76 . c e z e , H tory f r , pp A 2 EARLY HISTORY

gings which kindness the Monros of Milntown do ack now ’ 1 : ledge to this day . The Kalendar of Fearn says On the 1 2th of May 1 642 the house of Milntown was negligently ’ ’ ’ ck l ul k ea i s a d a w s . n burnt by ane [j ] nest O y the va ts remain . A r i in 1 501 nd ew d ed , and was succeeded by his son, r Wh o in di Andrew Beg Mon o , the Black Baron, lives tra tion

hi . as a cruel, bloodt rsty sensualist He greatly increased his possessions in the county of Ross, his most important pur in 1 505 n chase being , when he obtai ed a charter of the lands 2 a rt D a wa ch c a rt D a lc a rt D och c . of y, y or y near Dingwall In

1 51 2 he was appointed by James IV. to be Chief Maor of the 3 Earldom of Ross . A r 4 Black nd ew married Euphemia, daughter of James

Dunbar of Tarbat and Ballone Castle, Easter Ross, and had 1 22 ‘ r . Milntown 5 at least th ee sons He died at before , in ’ nf s great extravagance and co u ion, and was buried at the church of Kilmuir Easter. nr Milntown D a lc a rt George Mo o of and y, his eldest son 5 1556 Custum a r and successor, was appointed in to be (collector of customs) of Inverness , Ross , Sutherland and Caithness , and in 1 560 to be Bailie and Chamberlain of the Crown lands Of ffi and lordships Ross and Cromarty. He held these o ces ll 1 543 6 ti his death . In he acquired from John Bisset, N ewm ore N ewm ore fiv Chaplain of , the lands of , about e l Milntown 1 5 0 7 mi es west of , and in 7 disponed them to his

A dr . In 1559 r eldest son, n ew he obtained a charter in favou his hi ill of himself and t rd son, Donald, from Sir Robert Melv e ,

Chaplain of Tarlogie , of the lands of Tarlogie, two miles north f west O Tain .

1 Sir R b t G d n Ea d m o Su h a nd . 146 . o er or o , rl o f t erl , p

2 - E . M S . , 1424 15 13, No. 2830 . 8 l b No. 3746 . 4 ’ a r ne s G n a o i a i ns . is i. M a cf la e e l g c l Collect o (Scot H t . 5 d xx Ex he u R l-3 v s. xix . a n . c q er ol , ol

6 - R . . S . . 14 15 . P , fol 7 Old Rosshire . Ma i NO . 25. , W cg ll, EARLY HISTORY 3

n George Mo ro married Janet, daughter of James Fraser Ph o a c h hr . of p y, and had at least three sons and t ee daughters Milntown 1 1576 r He died at on November , , and was bu ied il i . A at K mu r Easter ndrew, the eldest son, carried on the Milntown N ewm ore D a lc a rt f i line of , and y, but the am ly E O E with which we are concerned are descended from G RG , one of the younger sons .

E O O O A G RGE M NR was educated at berdeen for the ministry, and became one of the leaders of the Reformed Church in r 2 1 1 570 the no th . On December , he was appointed by I f m or James V . to the Chaplaincy o New e with provision that he continue his study quh ill he be able to a d m inistra t the ’ 1 f Word of God . In the ollowing year he became Minister a nd l Of Kinneta s of Suddie Chance lor Ross , the parish of 1 5 4 being also in his charge during 7 . His stipend that year

£1 73 68 . 8d . of was , Scots , out which he had to pay two readers 20 2 1 5 76 merks each ; in , when he had Suddie alone , it was 2 £1 5 1 . 1 d . 1 590 1 593 , l s From to he was Minister of Tarbat, £200 3 1 594 his stipend being He returned to Suddie in , 1 59 a nd but was translated to Rosemarkie in 7, two years Ch a nonr efice later to y, holding the latter ben till his death 1 63 0 i i 16 1 . in , and reta n ng Suddie till 0 Mr . George Monro was elected to the General Assembly 1 1 1 1 581 on many occasions between 58 and 1 6 0 . In and 1 582 he was appointed 4 by the General Assembly to serve on a deputation for the erection of presbyteries in ROSS , 1 586 1 591 a Sutherland, and Caithness . In and he was p pointed to be commissioner of the synod of Ross with a f general oversight o the churches within these limits , his fie being £100 per ann um payable out of the emoluments

1 ’ S s Fas i Iii. 274 2 84 . cott t , , 3 Wodrow Mis a n l. 336 R is o Minis e s Ma i a nd lub . 90. cell y, ; eg ter f t r ( tl C ) , p 3 Old Rosshire . Ma c il1 4 No. 5 . , W g , B o the Universa l Ki . l Ba nna n ub 11 . 530 531 566 699 ook f rk ( ty e Cl ) , , , , 4 EARLY HISTORY

1 1588 2 of the old bishopric of Ross . In he was appointe d mi ui com ssioner to visit Orkney, where the Jes ts and Papists fi i chiefly resort, and therein to plant kirks with quali ed min ters fi s , depose and deprive such as be unquali ed, whether in i i l fe or doctrine, as well bishops as others of the m nistry to Of l crave all men, as wel of high estate as others , subscription ’ to the Confession of Faith, and participation of the Lord s c onveen Supper ; to try, call and papists and apostates , and proceed against them conform to the Acts of the Assembly ; and finally to do all other things that are necessary for reformation of the said bounds and reducing them to a good order, establishment of the Evangel and good discipline of ’ the Kirk . In March 1 589- 90 he was appointed by the Privy Council to be one of the special clerical commissioners in the Sh ires of Inverness and Cromarty to summon the lieges and take their subscriptions to the Confession Of Faith and to the general band tuich eing the m a ntena nce and defens of the reli ioun Ma esteis said trew g , his j persone and estate , and withstanding of all foreyne prepa ra tionis and forceis tending t ff ’ 3 to the trouble h a iro . In 1 596 the General Assembly ordered 4 him and two Z colleagues to conduct another visitation of Orkney, etland, hn 1607 5 Cait ess and Sutherland, and in he was appointed constant Moderator of the presbyt ery of Ardm ea noch or the

Black Isle . AS a prominent Presbyterian he had to encounter much r opposition in the ea ly part of his career . On September 1 2 15 3 6 , 7 he complained to the Privy Council that Rore , ‘ M Ka inze Kinta le h a va nd continewa ll broder to Colene of , steo ill Ch a nonr uh ilk residence in the p of the y of Ross, q he c a usit big not only to oppress the cuntrie with m a isterfull

4 2 hire e a ll Ki ii. 724 . Old Ross No. 44 . B o the Unio rs , ook f rk, 3 ’ 4 Ki iii. 863. C . R . iv. 466 . B o the Universall P . , ook f rk, 5 6 R. vii. 301 . . C . R. ii. 276. P . C . , P , EARLY HISTORY 5

i oirnin d a lie O ressioun a lsua re f, s g and y pp , bot for suppress uh ilk a rech eit ing of the Word of God, q wes y p in the said — Kirk preceding his intery th a irtO quhilk now is becum ane of th evis m a isterfull violentlie filthie sty and den hes y and , f of O ressouris tenentis with ane grite orce pp , cum to the it ir id a d d ebt . benefice fo sa in pament of the said Mr George , and hes m a isterq y reft thame of all and baill the frutis th a irof Obtenin , and sua he , having na uther refuge for g of benefice c om ellit h a ill the said , wes p to denunce the saidis entis rebellis m ten and put thame to the ho e , as the saidis letters and ex ecutioun th a irof mair fullely proportis ; and

ford er c om ellit . i , is p for feir of the said Mr George l fe to remane ’ voc a tioun uh a irunto c a llit fra his q God hes him . ‘ M Kenzie f S Rore , the respondent, ailed to appear, O the Regent Morton with avise of the Lordis of Secreit Counsa ll ordered him to be put to the horn as a rebel and his goods

to be escheated . ’ This was by no means the end of Mr . George Monro s for A 1 5 5 troubles , in ugust 7 he had to answer before the 1 General Assembly to the charge that he waites not on his ’ tra vell cure , and pled in defence that he might not at his ’

ir l . k k for dead y feed . The excuse was accepted In 1586 he was again given the protection of the Privy 2 u . Council, who bo nd over certain persons not to molest him 1 602 i In he was the v ctim of another attack , and on July 8 of that year lodged a complaint before the Privy 3 Co uncil that on April 26 nine persons came to his house ’ Ch a nonr in the y by way of hamesucken, and ( l ) be oppin c erta ne instrum entis in nis force and violence, with and gy ur ois brocht with thame for the p p , thay brak up the durris O f enterit n u his said hons , withi the same, t ik the said com bedis plenar, and Mr . George Monro his sone , furth of thair rt w sark allane [with their shi s alone], dang thame ith thair

1 342 . B o the niv sa i Ki i. 336 ook f U er l rk, , 2 3 o. R. iv . 68 69 . 0 . R. vi. 41 1 . P . , , . P , 6 EARLY HISTORY

‘ neifiis [fists] and hiltis of thair suord is in dyvers pairt of thair ’ bod is 2 Levin stoun y ( ) they took Margaret g , the complainer s S sch a pouse, out of hir naked bed, reif hir sark , and m efullie unm erc ifullie w c om a ssioun i and , but [ ithout] pitie or p , stra k d vers a irtis and dang hir in y p of hir body, schot hir out of hous b hir uh ill the into the close , qu air thay held sark allane q scho wes a lm a st deid throw cauld and be the stra ik is and woundis quhilk is scho ressa vit of thame (3) they Spuilzied ’ [Spoiled] the complainer s house of most of its plenishing . The respondents were all put under caution not to molest

the complainer .

As . mentioned in the above complaint, Mr George Monro

1630 . had married Margaret Livingstone . He lived till about

E O E a His son G RG also went into the Church , and was p ‘ in 1 586 Cl nie pointed by James VI . to be Chaplain of y for ’ sch uli 1 his support at sustenying him at the s. He became 1 6 14 l minister of Suddie in , and about the same time a so ’ 2 succeeded to his father s appointment as Chancellor of Ross . He was nominated a member of the Court of High Commis

sion in and a Justice of the Peace for Inverness . He was the only minister in the presbyt ery Of Ch a nonry to Sign the National League and Covenant of 1642 He married Mary Primrose , and died about , leaving r s LEX A D E w th ee son , George , David and A N R (after ards Sir Be r Alexander of a crofts) . His widow died at a house on the u 1 6 r Castle Hill, Edinb rgh, in March 70, and was bu ied in f u Grey riars Ch rchyard .

George , the eldest son, like his father and grandfather, i t fi a s l became a min s er, and succeeded to their of ce Chance lor

4 ’ S s Fas i iii. 274 285 . cott t , , 2 La in ha s 17 79 g C rter , . 3 ’ Ba i li s L e s Ba nna t n ub i. 426. l e ett r ( y e Cl ) , ’

Roth es s R a i n Ba nna n ub . 106 . el t o ( ty e Cl ) , p

A A MON R0 OF BEAR SIR L X N D R CROFTB b . 1 629 d Jan 4 1 04 . 7 E E , , . , ,

m . Li ies d au h f J hn Ea stoun f C nstou. ll , g ter o o o o

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four sons and two 1 un d a u h e s . yo g. g t r . MONRO PEDIGREE

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a ne H un wh o d . su Hom of Ar a t . 1 836 J . , t ter, p e g y q Au 4 1 2 Ju 2 1 81 3 Isa 886. g. , ( ) ly , , b a d a u h f ell , g ter o n a i Lord Presid e t Bl r.

She d M 22 1 8 9. . ay , 7 CHAPTER II

SIR ALEX AND ER MONRO OF BEARCROFTS

X A N R ALE ND ER MO O , third son of Mr . George Monro and Mary Auchinbowie i Primrose , the ancestor of the fam ly, was born 1 629 wi h a s II in , and th his brother David fought for C rle . n l e 3 agai st Cromwe l at the battle of Worcester (Sept mber , After seeing some further service he retired with nk the ra of Major, and took to the study of the law. 2 1 1 65 l On December , 7 he bought a smal property in 2 Stirlingshire called Bea rcrofts the seller was Duncan ki is Ker, merchant in Fal rk, but the purchase price not

mentioned .

Bearcrofts lies in the parish of Grangemouth, formerly S Falkirk , on the flat hore of the Forth to the west of the A i mouth of the von, and a m le and a half east of Grange

s - mouth town . There was a man ion house on the estate , which also included the lands of Ha wa tfla t and Southlands

- fi hin As and the right of salmon s g in the Avon water.

part of the barony of Kerse, it had before the Reformation A 3 belonged to the bbey of Holyrood, and had been feued

to a family called Cra wfurd . On the suppression of the monasteries the lands of the Abbey were bestowed for a vi substantial money consideration on Sir Ludo c Bellenden, 4 and were incorporate d into the barony of Broughton. In

1 — o xa nd M imus M m i b Dr D na d Monro. Collected Works f Ale er onro ( Pr ) e o r y . o l 1 lin - Ma 8 1 660 R. S . S i . P. t r g y ,

3 - ha s o d Ba nna n ub 1 54 56 . C rter f Holyroo ( ty e Cl ), 4 - o . 1 304 . R. M . S . , 1580 93, N 1 0 SIR ALEXANDER MONR0 1 1

1606 n B ea rcrofts , on the resig ation of Sir James Bellenden, and other lands in the neighbourhood were erected into r Al fi the barony of Falkirk in favou of exander, rst Earl of 1 Linlithgow . I Act th e Charles . on his accession procured an revoking grants of Church lands , and the possessions of Holyrood house were then annexed to the bishopric of Edinburgh . In f l 1 637 James Lord Livingstone , a terwards Earl of Ca lendar, Wh o had bought the barony of Falkirk from his brother A lexander, second Earl of Linlithgow, obtained a Crown charter ratifying a charter by the Bishop of Edinburgh of 2 whom he was to hold the lands . Six years later he obtained another Crown charter from which the Bishop ’ s name had A B ea rcrofts disappeared. When lexander Monro bought a right of m id superiority was vested in a branch of the 1665 Hamilton family, and this right he acquired in from of m of John Hamilton, eldest son Sir James Ha ilton Grange , Of who had served heir to his uncle , Sir John Hamilton Bear 3 crofts . Two years previously Monro had bought the f 9 1666 superiority rom Lord Callendar, and on February , he got a Crown charter in favour of himself and Lillia s Eas toun f in f his wi e li erent, and George their eldest son in 4 Of fee . The lands were to be held the Crown for an annual payment of 10 merks .

A short digression is here necessary in order to trace ’ Mrs . Monro s ancestry . She was the second of the three daughters of John Ea stoun 5 ouston Ea st of C near Bathgate . The oun or Bistoun family hi had been settled in West Lot an for about a century . In 1572 a certain John Ea stoun Obtained from Lord Torphichen

1 - 2 - R M . S 1 1 60 1 2 . 593 8, NO. 79 . 1 b 1634 5 1 , Nos. 778, 1454 . 3 — 4 In uisiticmes S i in 240. R M . S q t rl g, . . 5 — In uisitiones Lin i h ow 212 Edinbu h T s am n s a m s Ea stoun un 25 q l t g , ; rg e t e t , J e , J e , 1 2 THE EAST OUNS OF COUSTON

Of Scottinfla t a feu of the lands , afterwards called Broom 1594 A Ea stoun park , in Torphichen parish, and in an lexander O btained a further feu of the neighbouring lands of Wood 1 r syde . Early in the seventeenth centu y their respective

h Ea stoun . W S . successors sold both feus to Jo n , Mrs ’ r - 1 610 Mon o s great grandfather, who also in bought the Couston ni property of from Sir Thomas Hamilton of Bin ng, ’ A h r King s dvocate . Sir T omas had acqui ed it two years Polwa rth s before from the , who had possessed it for several 2 fl d s d e Cousto . k c ttin a t Woo generations Li e S o and y , n was held in feu of Lord Torphichen. E a stoun John , who had practised in Edinburgh as a i 1 601 di 25 Writer to the Signet s nce about , ed on January , 1 616 w , survived by his ife Margaret Cant, who seems to have — been of the family of Grange of St . Giles her husband at 3 r as any rate refers in his testament to John Cant, the lai d, 3000 his especial friend . He left legacies of merks to his E a stoun 100 grandson, James , merks to his sister Margaret 200 ’ and her bairns , merks to his wife s niece, Jean Cant, A Ca lsie 100 daughter of rchibald Cant in , and merks to the r building of the ki k at Edinburgh . E a stoun nl John and Margaret Cant had an o y son ,

II . John . , who was kidnapped as a boy His father com plained to the Privy Council in 1 61 2 4 that on June 2 1 Cristea ne Levin stoun Bo h a ll A g , Lady g , relict of ndro Ker M lneri Levin stoun if of y g, and her sister Elizabeth g , goodw e ’ nn cra ftelie tra nit u of Ki aird, with their accomplices yo ng n ur th a irof Joh furth of the burgh of Edinb gh to the porte , uh a ir h a vein h orssis re a irit ur ois q , g some p p of p p , thay violentlie u oun h orsba k c a r it him set him p , and perforce y away with thame to the place of qubair thay

1 - - din s o S ci o An i ua i s 1906 7 . 338 70 . Procee g f o ety f t q r e , , pp 3 La in ha s N . 445 . g C rter , o 3 Edinbu h T s a m n s un 9 1 616 . rg e t e t , J e , 4 . C . R. ix . 396 . P , THE EASTOUNS OF COUSTON 1 3

d etene c a tivitie yit keip and him in prison and p , he being a young boy remaning in his said fa th eris company undir his e u i di ersonis intendis charge and d c a t oun. Lyke as the sai s p to compell the said JOh nne Eistoun younger to undirta k some suche unla uchfull cours and interpryse as may procure onlie n wra ik fa th eris not his aw e , bot also his said havie d is lea sour th a irwith m n dis a nd p , and y to urge force the said oh nne Eistoun n subscr ve J , you ger, to y and deliver unto thame all suche ba ndis and uth eris writtis as out of th eir ’

i rescr ve . fol e thay pleis p y , set doun , and present unto him The two ladies failed to answer the summons or to produce

un . the boy, so they were deno ced as rebels It may be that these proceedings were a violent way of negotiating a marriage between young John E a stoun and

Euphemia Ker, whom in fact he married about this time . ’

III . . r f They had two sons , John , Mrs Mon o s ather, and James,

e II . who became an advocat , John succeeded to the ’ on f 1 616 di properties his ather s death in , and ed in 1 2 6 5 . September Euphemia Ker , who survived him for nr in of Ga rd och over forty years , married He y Liv gstone , 1 B thk e r o nna r r . in parish , Sti lingshi e , and had a son George m f Coust n 2 . O o John married (contract dated March , 3 1 633 of i ) Jean, eldest daughter Michael Elph nstone of i O f Quarrel (now Carron Hall) , Stirl ngshire , ninth son Al f 3 r ins . r exander, ou th Lord Elph tone They had th ee Lillia s . r . daughters , Mary, (Mrs Mon o) and Euphemia Ea stoun fin ffi ul John soon got into ancial di c ties, and oust sold C on to his brother James . He also borrowed at various times from his brother on the security of Broompa rk Wood s d e r n and y , but thei mother conti ued to enjoy the l 6 liferent of these properties til her death in 16 7 .

Mr. E a stoun Couston 1640 James of , advocate , married in

1 - S i in T s a m n s a nua 1 1 668 69. t rl g e t e t , J ry ,

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r Som ervell r s Ma garet, daughter of Peter , merchant bu ge s 1 di 1651 . H of E nburgh, and died without issue in is widow B k married Gabriel an ene , merchant burgess of Edinburgh . l 25 1 65 1 He left a wi l made on June , , at the camp at Torwoodh ea d i r , St rlingshi e , where the Scots forces under the II personal command of Charles . entrenched themselves in 2 for n w readiness Cromwell . He begi s ith the preamble that thair is nothing mair certain nor death and that it is mair imminent to nobody nor soj oris and first I declair my ’ self clear in all the poynts of the Covenant . He leaves his r onlie three nieces his hei s portioners , to the eldest lass I leive the lands of Coustoune I wish e her to marie with the n B a th a itt win you g laird of g ; with the provisiones follo g, that my mother have out of the lands of Coustoun so long as she 300 zeirlie w 500 zeirlie lives merks , and to my ife merks ’ d ur in f - e . g her li etime He appointed his half brother, George

Ga rd och . Livingstone of , to be his executor The match between Mary E a stoun and Thomas Hamilton l of Bathgate never took place , but she married Wil iam 3 l . Sandi ands , third son of John , fourth Lord Torphichen

li Couston 1 04 . Their second son , Wil am , entailed in 7 Lillia s Al r B ea rcrofts married exander Mon o of , and S Al a im Euphemia, the third ister, married exander N of Green a rd s r Easter y near Bannockbu n, brother of Robert, 4 e . 1 686 i creat d Lord Nairn She died in May , leav ng at A 5 she least two sons , lexander and Robert. By her will nominate d her brother- in - law Alexander Monro to be one of ’ r Of Robert s tutors , and his son George Mon o was one the

witnesses . — To return to Alexander Monro h e was appointed on

1 - M . S . 1634 5 1 1 R. No. 687 Edinbu h M a ia R is r. , , rg rr ge eg te 3 Edinbu h T s a men s une 25 1 652 . rg e t t , J , 3 - din s o S i o Anti ua i s 1906 7 . 374 . Procee g f oc ety f q r e , , p 3 S o s a vi. 393 . S i in T s a m n s Au ust 1 1 1704 . c t Peer ge , t rl g e t e t , g ,

1 6 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO

1 fu illa t Bisch o s cue to g the p , and to cut Commissar Monro fi ’ its clerk short of all the bene t he could . In November 1 669 Monro was also nominated one of the B a vela w Clerks of Session in succession to Laurence Scott of , ll 26 1 676 and held the post ti June , , when Government reduced k the number of cler ships from six to three . The Lords of Session selected three to continue in office on the footing S that they hould give the other three , of whom Monro was

3500 . Com issa r nr one , compensation of merks each Mo o unles r refused, they gave him a reason of thei depriving ll if him , which was refused ti he raised his declarator he had t ’ 3 . 4 ni ht e a mind to doe it He within a g after accept d it . ’ 3 In Foulis of R a velston s D ia ry there are frequent entries v r of con ivial meetings with Commissary Mon o , but his fortunes underwent a disastrous change during the persecution that followed the battle of Bothwell Bridge the killing ’ times of bluidy Mackenzie . For prominent Presbyterians neither liberty nor property was safe , and the crisis was 1682 r reached in , when one Weir or Law ie of Blackwood was mn conde ed on a charge of treason , for having been in the company of a person who had been concerned in the affair of Bothwell Bridge but had never been prosecuted by

Government . A scheme was then suggested by the Earl of Shaftesbury i for sending a Scots colony to the Carol nas , and in the autumn

of 1682 he invited Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, second son Sir u of the Earl of Dundonald, and George Campbell yo nger

of Cessnock to come up to London and discuss the matter. i n They did so , and Obtained the leave of the K ng and Cou cil 4 to form a company with this Object . r Shaftesbu y, however , had another motive in seeking to

1 ’ u u ita t t. e. et rid . Q ery, f g e , g of 3 u na s o Sir hn La ud L rd F un a inha S t. is . . 225 . Jo r l f Jo er, o o t ll ( co H t p 3 i Scottish His tory Soc ety. 4 Wodrow is B III . ha . vi. 1 vol. 11 . . 230 . , H tory, ook c p , p SIR ALEXANDER MONR 0 1 7

get into association with them . He was planning a great Whig plot for a general rising throughout England to over i his throw the K ng and government, and to exclude the

uk . D e of York, a Catholic , from succession to the throne

He secured many supporters , said to number and the Carolina scheme suggested itself as a means whereby if the movement might be carried into Scotland, the Earl of Argyll could be induced to return from Holland and lead fi an invasion . The rising in England was originally xed for 1 9 November , but had to be abandoned for lack of prepara f l di tion, and Sha tesbury then retired to Ho land, where he ed soon afterwards . n n n The in er worki g of the plot, which remai ed undis un Of — covered, was entrusted to a Co cil Six the Duke of of l Monmouth, the Earl Essex, Lord Russel , Lord Howard f Al d o Escrick, Colonel gernon Sy ney, and John Hampden and they sent a certain Aaron Smith to Scotland early in 83 n t 1 6 , to invite some of the promine t Presby erians to come up to London and confer with them under cover of the

. ll Carolina enterprise He was specially to see Lord Melvi e , l Of erviswood Sir John Cochrane , Robert Bail ie J , Sir George

Campbell , and his father Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock . A l Al bout this time Cochrane , Bail ie , and exander Monro Obtained commissions from the Carolina company to go to

London and arrange for a purchase of land . Monro left r A Edinbu gh in pril, and joined the other two on the way. He stoutly maintained that he never met Aaron Smith until ’ hr s he saw him at Coc ane s house in York hire, and that the object of his journey was the Carolina busin ess and nothing w else . Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, who rote the ffi 1 o cial account of the conspiracy, rejects that plea and says ’ Commissary Monroe had well serv d his Majesty in the Wars as an active brave man ; but upon some Injuries he ’ r i k La ud erd a il pretended to have ece v d from the Du e of ,

1 T u A un o the r id ns i a 1685 . 27 . r e cco t f Ho r Co p r cy, , p C 1 8 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO

’ enra d he grew g to such a degree , as led him into these ’ Courses .

On arriving in London they lodged in Blackfriars , and paid court to His Majesty at Windsor as part Of their Carolina ll r negotiations . They found that Lord Melvi e had al eady r Cessnock s v a rived, and they were joined by the , Da id h Montgomery of Langshaw and several others . T ey had s l meetings with the Duke of Monmouth, Lord Ru se l and u P l Ca rsta res Robert Ferg son, The lotter and Wi liam , P di ni afterwards rincipal of E nburgh U versity, arrived from Holland with a message from Argyll that he would land in Scotland on condition that the English conspirators would send him to buy arms and ammunition and would Th raise 1000 dragoons . e Scots found it impossible to get hi t s large sum raised, but they got promises that Ar would be found, and gyll agreed to act provided that the rising in the two countries could be arranged to take place S ul im taneously. nr Melvill Cessnock s Commissarie Mo o , Lord and the s i bec a us were again t medl ng with the Inglish, they judged them men that wold talk and wold not doe , but wer mor ’ 1 inclyned to doe something by themselves if it could be done . w dl £5000 ne otia The promised d in ed to , and g s a dl i tion re ched a dea ock, because the Engl shmen aimed hi ul at setting up a Commonwealth , to w ch the Scots wo d not agree . ’ At erviswood s nr a meeting at J lodgings, at which Mo o was present, it was resolved to send to Scotland Mr . Robert usticia r u Martin, late Clerk of J y, to hinder the co ntry from rising till they saw how matters went in England . Martin of arrived at the end May, and had interviews with Sir

Patrick Hume of Polwarth , Pringle of Torwoodlee, and ul Lord Tarras , who sent back word that it wo d not be so

e. easy a matter to get the gentry of Scotland to concur (i.

1 w l S a T ia s x . 698 . Ho e l, t te r l , SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 1 9

r r in delay) ; and Hume w ote to Mon o , with whom he was n i in regular correspondence , that the Cou try was read er ’ n than they imagi ed . According to Lord Tarras Martin said that a ll the Scots men at London would come down soe soon as things were na m ein erviswood concluded their, g Sir John Cochrane , J i and Commissar Monro , to act or doe h er conform to the ’ resolutions their . In the subsequent proceedings Monro maintained that n he and his friends , perceivi g that the oppressive conduct of r the Government would cause a rising, sent Ma tin to prevent this and to get information as to the state of the country. The Government , however , obtained evidence that fi i more than this was intended , and that a de n te plan for an r insur ection had been arranged . ’ F ounta inh a ll s account of the plot is as follows

Ther designe seims to have been, to joyne with the i English when they ware ripe to draw to a body, and, w th armes in the one hand, and a petition in the other, to compell the King to quite his Brother to the mercy of a tryall in r recea ve c ounsellers Pa liament , and to them to be his ; a nd S O ambition had blinded ther eyes , that they had pro m ised di ff succes to themselves , and ware viding the o ices l of State among them , and ta ked of seizing Berwick, and su Stirling Castle , and of surprizing the Chancelor, Trea rer , ’ and the d ra gouns horses wh er they ware gra izing ; and to try whare ther ware any armes to be got ; and to let the f fi freind S l project all to ther con dent , to try ther inc inations, and to keep up ther cesse for a tym e ; and to know the $ of strenth ther party by a word viz Harmony, and a f S . : O igne, viz the lousing a button ther breast and then ’ closing it again . A O ffi ccording to the cial account Sir Patrick Hume , Of dl George Pringle Torwoo ee, the Earl of Tarras and Murray

1 His i a N i es Ba nna ne lub 11 . 591 . tor c l ot c ( ty C ) , 20 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO of Philiph a ugh were to organise matters in Scotland ; while di A l the leaders in Holland were , in ad tion to rgyll himse f, of the Earl Loudoun, Sir James Dalrymple (Lord Stair) , A A James Steuart , afterwards Lord dvocate , and ndrew

Fletcher of Saltoun . Alongside of this project of insurrection was another f a plot, also originated by Lord Sha tesbury, to ass ssinate n uk fi the Ki g and the D e of York . It was con ned to about forty of the conspirators , including none of the Scotsmen ’ ’ f Sh a ftesbur s except Ferguson the Plotter, who a ter y r di r departu e was the lea ng spi it of the whole movement . hi Various schemes had been considered , but the one w ch came nearest to realisation was a plan to attack the royal party at the Rye House in Hertfordshire on their way back 1 682 from Newmarket . It was twice arranged, in October 1683 and in March , but in each case it miscarried owing to ’ a change in the King s plans . n Other proposals were u der discussion, when on June 1 2 1 683 nf , i ormation as to both plots was given to the govern

l . ment by one of the conspirators , Josiah Kee ing It was a couple of days before the authorities took action, and some i of the Scotsmen had timely warn ng and fled to Holland , 1 but Monro made no attempt to abscond ; the Campbells Ca rsta res were caught trying to escape , was taken a month ll later in hiding at Tenterden in Kent , and eventua y about a dozen of the Scotsmen and many of the Englishmen were f K secured . They were examined be ore the ing in Privy the Council at Hampton Court, and for most part were kept in prison .

Monro appeared for examination on June 23 . He had 3 ill of b been most the time he was in London, and he was a le to give a satisfactory account of himself and was released ;

r i - but fou days later Thomas Shephard, a w ne merchant, at

1 w S a T ia s ix . 853 . Ho ell , t te r l , ’ F x t Su m n Bu n s is . 1 13 1 18 . o crof , pple e t to r et H tory, pp , SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 2 1

1 whose house some of the meetings took place , gave evidence that he had talked with Monro about the promised i r by the English consp rators , and that Mon o had complained that it was too little, and that the delay in paying it would

re- 28th r ruin them all . He was arrested on the , and afte ’ fin 3 four months con ement in the Marshalsea, he and the other Scots prisoners were sent to Scotland for trial, as it was doubtful whether the sentence of an English court would ffi fi of be su cient warrant for con scation their heritage . The English ringleaders were tried and about half a dozen were executed . 3 Fountainhall records : On the 1 of November [1 683] 1 2 1 3 the Scots prisoners , to the number of or , ware em b a r ued Kitchen n wh er q on the yacht and se t to Scotland ; , f 14 a ter much tempest and tossing, they arrived on the l of Cesnock hi ther names ware , Sir [Hew] Campbel and s sons R owa lla n of , Muir of and his sone, and Fairly Brunts f - in- B a ilzie of Jerreswood Cra wfurd eild his son law, , [ ] of Cra wfurdla nd A B ea rcrofts u , lexander Munro of , M rray of Ti erm uir Mr Ar pp , . William Spence , late servant to gile , Mr . ’ lli r [Wi am] Carstairs and [John] Hepbu n, ministers . 4 k ur l : N C a rnoc Jo na or) . 1683 Erskine of wrote in his , 1 —h 4th . T is day the Scots gentlemen who were prisoners in of London , some of them being apprehended on suspicion

their having a hand in the late plot, landed at Leith . They ’ were guarded with a squad of the King s Guards , and the w ’ greatest part of the to n s company, and were carried to the lk Nether Bow port in coaches , and from that wa ed on foot i to the Tolbooth, being div ded among the ranks of the Foot, f and the horse going be ore . They were kept close prisoners

and divided in several rooms . n They were imprisoned in the Tolbooth all wi ter, and in

1 T u a nd a in A oun o the Dis v i s in S o a nd Adv. Lib. a m h s 257 . r e Pl cc t f co er e c tl , P p let , 3 S om s T a c s viii. 406 . er r t , 3 is i a Obs v s 108 . S ish is S i t . 21 . H tor c l er e , p. cott H tory oc e y, p 2 2 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO March Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock was tried for complicity in the Bothwell Bridge rising ; though the witnesses failed him r ll to identify , and the ju y acquitted him , he was sti kept in prison for his share in the great plot . The government then decided to indict Robert Baillie Jerviswood in of , who , though an old man feeble health , had been very active in the conspiracy ; and also to raise processes of forfeiture against the other prominent Scotsmen l r imp icated in it . In order to procu e the necessary evidence the Council gave orders for Spence and Ca rsta res to be examined under torture . 20 1 684 in in On July , Spence was put the boots order to induce him to reveal what he knew of the conspiracy, ’ and especially to disclose the cypher- key to Argyll s corre u of fi spond ence . The tort re the boots was not suf cient to

r nf - w ing the i ormation from him , so by a hair shirt and 5 k ee ed slei l pricking he was nights p from p, til he was turned ’ 1 A i u halfe distracted . On ugust 7 Spence is aga n tort red, and his thumbs crushed with pilliwinck s or thumbikins A fter this , when they ware about to have cawed him of new n t m e agai in the boots, he being frighted, desired y , and he would declare what he knew on the 22nd to avoid further torture he revealed the clue to the letters . ’ 5 Ca rsta res s turn came a few days later. On September he suffered the thumbikins for an hour and a half without nf co essing anything, so the Council ordered him to be tortured 3 in the boots the following morning . This was more than

ul . he co d endure , so he consented to give evidence In after- years Ca rsta res became chief Presbyt erian adviser to li U i I II . Wil am and Principal of Edinburgh n versity, and the hi thumbikins , w ch were never again used, were presented to him as a memento of his sufferings . ’ As the result of Ca rsta res s evidence the Earl of Tarras

1 F un a inh a l is i a N i s 11 . 545 548 552 . o t l , H tor c l ot ce , , , 3 Wodrow Su erin s B III . h a . viii. 4 vol. Ii. . 391 . , fl g , ook c p , p

24 SIR ALEXANDER MONR O It appears from the warrant of September 1 3 that they l fi had been kept in so itary con nement through the summer, v and it was not till they had given their e idence , after ten ’ 1 months detention in the Tolbooth, that they were sent to r fi r . A va ious prisons , Mon o being con ned in Stirling Castle i fortn ght later remissions were sent to them, and they were 2 set at liberty. The trial of Baillie of Jerviswood for treason took place r of 23 1684 in the High Cou t Justiciary on December , , and ended in the small hours of the next morning in a verdict of ’ guilty . He was hanged at the Market Cross the same his f . odrow a ternoon, and body was quartered W explains that the reason for this haste was that the authorities feared 3 he might die if they delayed the execution ; as Fountain 4 : Zuille n hall says the holy dayes of approachi g, they l ’ would not delay him ti l thay were ended . His property was forfeited .

The witnesses for the prosecution were Lord Tarras, r Ph ili h a u h Commissary Mon o , James Murray of p g , Hugh ’ ll a rsta re r Scot of Galashiels and Wi iam C s. Mon o s evidence S hi was rewarded with a free pardon, igned by the King at W te 29 hall Ou December , In January 1685 twenty- two persons were summoned before Parliament on a charge of treason in connection with A Cessnock s the plot . lmost all except the two were fugitives, but the trials of most of them took place at various times throughout the year and decrees of forfeiture were obtained

. in in all cases Monro was a witness , either person or through 6 n his deposition , against Lord Melville , Sir Joh Cochrane, Cessnock s the , Montgomery of Langshaw, and the heirs of

1 inha is o i a N i 1 F un a s ii. 559. . I b. ii. 56 o t ll , H t r c l ot ce , , 3 is B III . ha . viii. 4 vol ii. . 398 . H tory, ook c p ; . p 4 is o i a N i s ii. 594 . H t r c l ot ce , 5 C M SS . om . . . i in is . S m D um m nd 1885 . 94 H t , C H t rl g Ho e r o , , p . 3 ’ A s viii. A b a Th ms n s . 33 39 575 60a . o o ct , pp , , , SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 25

Mr. Robert Martin. It was of course a grave infraction of the criminal law to admit written evidence . ’ The deposition is printed in the Appendix to Thom son s 1 Acts f , and may be quoted in ull

I was engaged in that Commission concerning Carolina w relucta ncie severa lls most innocently and ith , as is known to And Of Of the undertakers . I declare I knew no other designe in it, bot to carry on a Scots plantation in that province , which was a thing wery seriously intended by all the under takers with whom I hade occasion to speak concerning it . And if his Maties letter to the Councill hade not authorized the designe, I hade never medled in it . U 3 u When in my journey to London I came to lar, I fo nd erveswood J ther, who told me that he was resolved to goe to n London and did stay ther to get my company, heari g of r of my coming. He told me the eason his going that journey was to shun the hazard that might follow upon the sentence a gt Blackwood which he beleiued no man in the west c ountrey A f could escape . nd he found himsel very ill stated with the h a c lla r late C n e . We mett W t Slr John Cochran in York shyre whom I In lishm a n a sk t who that g was who hade bein at his house . And ffi l i he a rmed to me that he knew not, bot he be e ued he

‘ was some trepan to insnare him . Neither did he at any di time after tell me what he was . Nor d I ever hear his name untill his Royall Highness questioned me what I knew r concerning Mr . Smith who hade bein at S John Cochrans s hou e , when I was called before the King and the Councill la n of Ing d . Some time after our a rriva ll at London Sr John Cochran r e begun to tell me of g eat discont nts amongst the Inglish, A At severa ll and that they were much concerned for rgyle . times he talked to that purpose and of ane association and of

1 ’ 3 Th ms n s A s viii. A . 33 34 . in N thumb a nd o o ct , pp , Wooler or erl . 26 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO

s petition from the Counties to the King, all which past a s

the language of that c ountrey. About the begining of May R owallans and Ce ssnock s elder and younger and Bruntsfeild and Cra wforla nd and r . S Langshaw came to London John Cochran heard of it, and told me he was going to visite them, and if I would goe wt him I might get the news from Scotland . When we came to them they told us they hade come ther to Shun the hazard they found themselves under by the sentence against Black And di u a sk t wood . in the sco rse it was by some of them at Sr John e if he thought that by the secretaries or any other obta ine rel if m way they could any e from his Ma . To which Sr s di fi l John an wered that he thought it would be wery f cu t . Sr h hr Some weeks after My Lord Melvil, and Jo n Coc an , Cessnock s un and elder and yo ger, and Langshaw, and

. W l Weitch . l Ca rsta ires Mr il iam , and Mr Wil iam and I met erveswood s wh er di u at J chamber, ther was much sco rse of And ex r t the danger from Blackwoods sentence . they p es ther apprehensions that the countrey might run together to save S O And themselves and make a present disturbance . it was S proposed that some person hould be sent to prevent it, if n i c ountre possible, and to k ow the cond tion of the y and what Slr they inclined to for ther owin safety. John Cochran spake of money which he said the Inglish would furnish to Argyle ul to buy armes to send to Scotland, and if they wo d attempt any thing for ther owin releif they might get assistance of Cesnok horse from England. Bot my Lord Melvil and elder r t a t l n w . and yo were altogether g med i g the Inglish, and my t Lord Melvill said we never medled w them bot they ruined And ure wt ex rest dishk e us . I conc them and p my of these dangerous courses as much as I could : and they re solued dl wt not to me e the Inglish , bot to send one home to c ountre know the condition of the y, and what the people i run were inclined to doe, and if they were l ke to together, And to endeavour by a ll meanes to hinder it . to let them SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 27

i know what he heard of maters in England, that they m ght be the more circumspect .

Mr. Robert Martin was sent, and some money was given hi m by the company to bear his charge . He was advised to goe to a gentleman in the South whom I know not, bot I bel iue di e his name is Pringle . I doe not know if any bo e t u did write w him . When he ret rned he gave accompt that such as he Spoke with promised to endeavour as much as they ul co d to keep all quiet , though they thought it might be diffi enuch S dl cult , for a small parke might kin e the whole c ountre his y . Likewise at return he told me he hade met wt m r ili h a h P olwa t Ph uc . y Lord Tarras , , and p Shortly after I recea ued a letter from P olwa rt which was not subscribed telling me that he b eleiued ther would be maney in Scotland willing to shew th em selues concerned owin f for ther sa ety, or to that purpose , bot I doe not exactly remember the words . ‘ It was before the aboue meiting, as I remember, that Sh i hird wh er i hi p came in I was din ng, at w ch time ther was di ublict no scourse of any p concern , and I hade none at all wt Shi hird n l p , for I knew him not u ti l he was gone that I asked his name and came to understand that he was a midling rri man and hade bein a great trustie of Sh a ftsbu es. Some days after he saluted me upon the Exchange , and that day in the a fternoone as I was passing through the Exchange he mett me about the m idle of it and invited me to goe wt him 5 to a glasse of good wine which he was to get W Mr. Bailie . I S wt was faint and ick and would bein glade of it any other, evera ll bot I refused him and left him abruptly. S days after croud he mett me in the Strand and stopt me in the , and said rea die to me the money is , to which I answered passing away infa tu T from him, you are a t S , and I hade never more dis wt course him then as aboue . I did never know of any money intended to be sent to A Shi hir did belieue the late rgyle by p d or any other, nor I 2 8 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO

any such thing, though I heard it spoken off. Nor did I know of the late Argyles correspondence W 3 the Inglish or t w nl eitch any Scotts man, o y I heard the forenamed Mr . W say that he hade a letter from him , bot I know not what was the contents of it . ‘ If any thing more of these maters shall recurre to my memorie or can be brought to it I shall be rea die to give ane ingenuous accompt therof . Bot my memorie is truly so And sore chattered that every thing Slips out of it . I hade r eit t never remembered some passages aboue ec ed w out help . find S Bot I as much as is mater of hame and sorrow to me , though I know not how I have bein insnared into them , for I am sure my will never consented to any thing that I judged re udicia ll a p j to his M tie and the Government . I doe remember that the Lord Melvill called me one day from my lodging to goe wt him that I might salute the R ussa ls Duke of Monmouth, who being at the Lord house u e we went ther, and after some disco rse the Lord Russ ll 10 000lb Ar spoke to Melvil about sending , to gyle to buy l armes, at which Melvil laughed and said they might aswe l r wtin i send ten pence, and brake of the discou se , and a l tle S d left them , and when he came away he they were unhappy t that medled w these people . To the best of my memorie I heard Sf John Cochran i speak of a Man festo to be emitted by the Inglish . I heard to the best of memorie Sr John Cochran and Jerveswood or one or other Of them talk ing as if they might expect Tuentie thousand men in Scotland . R AL MON R O .

r 1 1 e r 1 684 in Ed [ ] S p . This deposition given by Comis Monroe was signed and sworne by him in presence of

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2 1685 On December , Monro completed his humiliation by taking the Test, whereupon he was readmitted an advocate . 1 h D ecisions Fountain all was very indignant, and wrote in his This gave a generall discontent to the Ad voc a ts and ’ S n of the Lords hould be more te der the Facultie s reputation, of n by which most themselves have risen, ules they ware ’ commanded to doe it by superior powers . ’ For the rest of King James s reign Monro remained in O S bscurity, but as oon as the Revolution was accomplished i he emerged again into prom nence . He joined in the stream of Scotsmen who rushed up to London to welcome William i of Orange, and, doubtless , to sol cit preferment from him . r di for In the latter pu pose he must have been sappointed, the only use made of him was to get him to carry back an order from the Duk e of Hamilton for the disbandment Of the of College Justice company of volunteers, who were suspected 3 lf of Jacobite leanings . Monro himse had been chosen Lieutenant at the original embodiment of the company on

2 1 666 . November 7, him 28 1 689 The Estates appointed on March , to be their solicitor to despatch proclamations and orders to the places where they were appointed to be published or put in execu 3 tion . He was also nominated a Commissioner of Supply for r r Sti lingshire , and was one of those cha ged with super di for l inten ng the election of magistrates the burgh of Stir ing, and with raising the county militia to resist the threatened n attack of Papists from Ireland and elsewhere . His appoi t ment as Commissioner of Supply was renewed in 1 690 a nd 1 696 .

of l Sir Patrick Hume in one his letters to Lord Melvi le, 4 : the new Secretary of State in London, says Everyone

1 F un a inh a l is o i a N ic s ii. 681 . o t l, H t r c l ot e , 3 S m s T a s xi. 504 . o er r ct , 3 ’ Th ms n s A s ix . 23 29a 52 140 x . 29. o o ct , , , , ; 4 L v n a nd M vi a s Ba nna n ub . 100. e e el lle P per ( ty e Cl ) , p 30 jSIR ALEXANDER MONRO r s i ek on Comm ssary Monro for a Lord of Session . I wish ’ he were, and it is your interest that he be . Monro was

not however to advance on a judicial career, but undaunted by his previous experiences he once again plunged into politics . As soon as the Estates were duly converted into a P s arliament, a con titutional struggle began, the government ’ party or courtiers being opposed by the country party, ’

i . or, as it was called by its enem es, the Club The latter ni Al was in a majority and was carefully orga sed, exander

r P i . Mon o , who was not yet in arl ament, acting as clerk

Canvassing was actively carried on, and preliminary meet ’ P enston s ings were held at tavern in the High Street, where 1 the plans of campaign for the debates were arranged. The chief ostensible question at issue was a proposal by the King to conduct the business of Parliament through A the Lords of the rticles, a committee for preparing the

measures to be submitted to the whole House . The opposi

tion fought for a free debating Parliament as in England . The constitutional struggle was complicated by personal i jealousies . The Club included several lead ng men who h a d expected but had failed to get appointments at the

Revolution, so the struggle was largely one between the ’ Ins and the Outs . P r Lord Stair, resident of the Cou t of Session, and his son, A i Sir John Dalrymple, the Lord dvocate , were the ch ef h objects of attack . T ey had been political trimmers, and as Officers of State under the Stuarts they shared the responsi ilit i b y for the late oppressive admin stration, Lord Stair fi was threatened with impeachment, and the ght was so bitter that the Club ’ s enemies alleged that it was engaged in a c o it l treasonable Correspondence with the J b es. The a lega tion may have been true of Sir James Montgomery of Skel m rlie Ann nl o , Lord andale, and Lord Ross , but it was certai y

1 M a L v n a nd vi a s Ba nn n C ub . 153 245 . e e el lle P per ( ty e l ) , pp ,

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dr e induced to with aw the latt r claim, and Parliament there upon passed e u Act recommending him to the King for A favourable consideration . s a result he was knighted in 1 695 and was granted a pension of £150 sterlin g : the value of the latter favour is somewhat discounted by the fact that at his death his pension was two and a half years in arrear . In the autumn of 1690 he was engaged to prosecute Lord fir Of Tarbat, afterwards st Earl Cromartie , late Lord Clerk

Register, before a special commission, on the charge of 1 embezzling (falsifying) the minutes of Parliament ; but the prosecution failed . He found time to take an active part in the local affairs 3 - k . re of Fal irk, where he was a heritor The establishment i u of Presbyterian sm caused a str ggle there , as in many mi di parishes . The old Episcopal nister ed at the beginning 1690 of , but his assistant claimed a presentation from the l Earl of Cal endar, the patron , and refused to obey the order of the General As sembly to desist from preaching and to deliver up the keys of the church, the registers and other r n A 1 691 church property . Mon o was appoi ted in pril along S Al with two other members of the new kirk ession , Sir ex

H . B a nt a sk ine ander ope of Kerse , and Mr Livingstone of , to recover the property, but it was many months before they succeeded and a new minister was settled . Th e Privy Council passed an act in April 1 692 conferring of r i the unpaid stipend the parish upon a neighbou ing min ster, and Monro was appointed to make a representation on behalf of the kirk session with a View to getting the decision reversed . 1 692 i — a n In Lady Stair d ed, event which was greeted with indecent glee by the many opponents of the Dalrymple U family. Maidment reprints a pasquil pon the long wished

1 Lev n a nd M vi a s Ba nna ne ub . 567 . e el lle P per ( ty Cl ) , p 3 Anna ls o Fa i G. 1 . Mu a vol. II . . 1 3 16 29. f lk rk, rr y, pp , , SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 33

t ’ m l R . for and ty e y death of the Hon The Lady Stair, in 1 which the following lines . occur :

R e o ce old c ubbers R osse a nd Sk elm or ie j i l , l , ’ w h e Da lrymple s fac tion no a th lost a ne ey .

3 Will Ba illie th en with C ommissa r Monroe R 3 h a h e e o c e for Aun e s ot t e fa a b o . j i , ti g t l l Sh e w ll er ex nor troub e ou no m ore i p pl l y , ’ ’ - w h h h h r Hell s turn k eey no a t s ut t e fa ta l d oo .

r mi Mon o acted as clerk to a com ssion, appointed by the A 29 1 695 King on pril , , to inquire into the circumstances of 4 Th i m . e the assacre of Glencoe commission, wh ch was l presided over by the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Chancel or, A s and included the Lord dvocate, Lord Ju tice Clerk, and of two other judges the Court of Session, hastened through 20 its work, and reported on June , severely censuring the

Master of Stair , Secretary of State , who was forced to retire . 1 696 1 697 1000 In , and again in , Scottish soldiers were required for service in the Low Countries, and the Com missioners of Supply in each county were responsible for A raising their quota . rbiters were also nominated to settle disputes between the Commissioners and the recruiting officers as to the suffi ciency of the men to be outreik ed for v A r l nni the le y, Sir lexander Mon o and Wi liam Cu nghame of 5 r Buchan being the persons nominated for the Shi e of Stirling . In 1 699 Monro and four other Commissioners of Supply for Stirlingshire were appointed to fix the maximum price 6 for the sale of victual at the markets within the county. In the parliamentary session of 1 696 Sir Alexander Monro n A supported the government in getti g supply voted . dam

1 3 B o m . Ba ili La min t n A S tish as ui s . 192. W . ook f cot P q l , p l e of g o 3 4 La d S a i . C a rsta res S a a s 237 . y t r t te P per , 5 c a ma i ns Ma h 3 1 696 a nd D mb 16 1 696 Adv. Lib. a m hl ts vol. i. Pro l t o , rc , ece er , , P p e , 3 Ma h 1 1 699 Ih. 3 . , rc , 34 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO

1 Cockburn wrote to the Earl Of Ann andale : The first year n s past u animou ly eneugh, but the second mett with great

. C ullodin Whi opposition In the committee Grant, , and t law wrought it throw . In the parliament the Chancellor ’ Comm issa re pres t it and Monro second him . No men so ’ hi nouvea ux onver is forward as t re c t . Of 1 698 si In the session supply was the main bu ness . V din otes were required for maintaining a stan g army, and the Tulliba rdine opposition, led by Lord , fought on the question of principle , and made capital out of the great sca rcity pre un vailing in the co try and the prospect of another bad harvest . Th e Officers of state made strenuous exertions to gain sup A r porters, and Sir lexander Mon o was one of those to whom Lord Chancellor Marchmont (Sir Patrick Hume) paid par ticular attention . The government had to play their trump i card, a threat from the K ng that any who opposed the vote hi would lose their places and pensions . T s was an argument i ul wh ch wo d carry weight with Monro , and he seems to have 3 given the impression that he would support them, but when the trial of strength came with the elections of the four P — committees of arliament for security, for trade, for con ’ troverted n i electio s , and for answer ng the King s letter h e l absented himself, and some of his associates, Cu loden, di l . Torwood ee, and Bro e, voted with the opposition The ’ e min government candidat s were carried, and Monro s trim g brought him into great disfavour in high places, and closed his political career. The next session ( 1 700- 1 701 ) was occupied with the affairs unf e hi of the ortunat Darien company, to w ch Monro had £2 i i subscribed 00 . Parl ament passed a series of unan mous but unavailin g resolutions to the effect that the company was a lawful association and should be supported by the ul k Crown, that redress sho d be demanded for the attac s of

1 Sir Wm . F a s Anna nd a F a mi B II. 1 27 . r er, le ly ook, 3 C a rsta res S a a s 384 387 398 401 4 12 . t te P per , , , , , SIR ALEXANDER MONRO 35

P i the Spaniards, and that the resolutions of the English arl a ment adverse to the company were an unwarrantable inter i nl meddl ng with Scottish affairs . The o y question was whether an address to the King should be voted or an Act of i Parl ament passed. The majority were in favour of an A r in address , but Sir lexander Mon o voted the minority, and

- 1 with eighty three others had his protest recorded . This was his last session in Parliament . Al r i ur 4 Sir exander Mon o died in Ed nb gh on January ,

1 704 - r aged seventy fou , and was buried two days later in f Grey riars Churchyard. He was predeceased by a daughter 30 1 664 i Margaret, who was baptized on May , and d ed in n Ar i fancy, and by his second son chibald, who was baptized 8 1 666 ’ on September , and was his father s colleague as Com 1 Th e missary of Stirling between 1 693 and 697 . family who Of —Ge Auchinbowie survived him consisted two sons orge of , Al r P rimus and John, the father of Professor exander Mon o ( ) , — r Lillia s . and th ee daughters , Jean and Mary Mary, who 20 1 706 was unmarried, died of a decay on May , aged

. 1 1 thirty, and was buried at Greyfriars Jean married in 7 0 li v Wil am Sempil , eldest sur iving son of Sir William Sempil of di A Cathcart, and died without issue at E nburgh in pril ill in ul e By his w , dated J y he appointed his daught r Jean his sole executrix and bequeathed her his movable property (an inconsiderable quantity recommending her to be helpful to her brother John until he attains to the ’ e benefit of his employment . The daught rs had provisions 6 00 r Bea rcrofts of 0 merks each, secu ed upon , which went to ’ m em or the eldest son. John s provisions depended upon a il andum by his father which led to litigation among the fam y. Though Sir Alexander was an a cc ura t man and a good ’ 2500 lawyer, this document, by which John was to get

1 ’ Tho ms n s A s x . 246 . o ct , 3 Edinbu h T s a m n s N v mb 16 1725 . rg e t e t , o e er , 3 S i in T s a men s F b ua 1 6 1704 . t rl g e t t , e r ry , 36 SIR ALEXANDER MONRO merks and an assignation of a holding in the Darien com £780 ul l pany of Scots, was mac ate, scored, inter ined and ’ cancelled with different ink in several parts . Th e matter ’ ’ was ultimately settled in John s favour after three years 1 litigation with his brother. 3 ’ Al r or Sir exander Mon o registered arms , an eagle s ules n in vert head erased g , holdi g her beak a laurel branch

or N on inferiora . crest, an eagle perching motto,

1 M is n Di i na 5052 A s S / s Adv. II . ni on ssi n a . 7 or o , ct o ry, ; r t e o P per ( 3 - a See Title p ge. CHAPTER III

COLONEL GEORGE ONRO OF AUCHINBOWIE AND HIS M , D ESCEND ANTS

E O E N R Bea rcrofts G RG MO O , who succeeded to , had been appointed a Captain in the Cameronian Regiment at its i 1 i in 689 i . embod ment , and was a sold er of some d stinction

The regiment was raised under unique circumstances . 1 689 of In March , during the sitting the Convention of Estates

O ff lli . which ered the Crown to Wi am and Mary, the perse cuted followers of Richard Cameron from the west country had volunteered to act as a guard for the members . Some did of them stay a while in the city, being employed in helping to keep guard and cast up trenches against the castle (which ai at this time stood out) , and others of them st d longer, and kept watch every night in a room of the house where the Earl r P olwart of Crawford, Lord Card oss and Sir Patrick Hume of lodged, to hinder any from assassinating them , which was ’ 1 feared then . A month later Lawrie of Blackwood and Captain William

Cleland, with the help of Sir Patrick Hume , got leave from i the Estates to levy two battal ons, each to consist of ten i An s compan es of sixty men . James , Earl of gu , a lad of twenty, the son of the Marquis of Douglas , was commissioned

ll - Colonel, and Wi iam Cleland, who was only twenty seven,

- Un te Lieutenant Colonel . A general meeting of the i d A 29 Societies of Covenanters was convened for Monday, pril , 3 r r r l n e i s. at the ki k of Douglas, for the pu pose of en ol i g r cru t

1 3 Mi ha a . 393 se . Shi d s F i h u C n nd in s . 388 Ib . c el el , t f l o te g , p . , p q 3 7 38 COLONEL GEORGE MONRO

The previous day was Spent by the great multitude of people

n . hi in heari g sermons from Messrs Lining, Boyd and S elds at fi n fi a eld meeting beside the tow , and on the Monday a erce debate took place on the question : Whether or not at this time it was a sinful association for one regiment to be in an ffi army, while there were many O cers malignant and bloody a ll men, and under one general The majority voted in the ffir a mative, but the minority felt so strongly the necessity of defending their country and their religion against the ’ hr Irish es t eatened attacks of Highlanders and , that they drew up a series of conditions upon which they were willing ’ ul to serve terms, as Maca ay says, subversive of all ’ 1 military discipline . They stipulated that the O fficers Should be such as have not served the enemy, nor persecuted and opposed the cause , nor engaged by the Declaration, Test, or other sinful oaths and bonds to Oppose and suppress the cause we fight for or if they had offended in that respect they were to make public acknowledgement on the head of the regiment the ffi li o cers were not to en st men, but the men were to raise the companies and select or approve their captains and officers they were not to be called upon for foreign service : they were to be allowed to select their ministers of religion ; and they were to have ‘ liberty to represent and remonstrate our grievances sustained these years bygone and impeach accord ing to law and justice the chief instruments a nd abettors ’ thereof, in church, state , army or country .

- These conditions were presented to Lieut . Colonel Cleland a next day, but he very properly replied th t while he would not give an officer’ s commission to any one who was obnoxious to them , most of their conditions were not in his power to An Of grant . amended set proposals was drawn up for pre u sc tation to General Mackay, Commander of the Forces in

$ n d i . Scotland, and the meeti g was a journed for a fortn ght

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- ch oo e against some captains which the lieutenant Colonel s d , l n r ffi especia ly agai st Captain Mon o, yet they were made O cers ’ in the regiment . nr Mo o , however, was soon to justify his appointment . By this time Claverhouse had raised the standard of 400 revolt in the Highlands, and of the Cameronians were ordered to the west to guard the coast of Lorne and Kintyre 1 r a cobites against invasions of I ish J . The rest of the regi 800 ment, consisting of men, spent the next few weeks in clearing the braes of Stirlingshire of lowse and ill- affected ’ men who might be found in arms, and during July they P r garrisoned erth to check in oads into the Lowlands . A In ugust, against the advice of General Mackay, they were ordered by the Estates to occupy Dunkeld, a defence mi less post in the dst of a hostile country, and immediately u r fo nd themselves obliged to lie to their arms . They a rived on A 1 7 ni the evening of Saturday, ugust , and next mor ng they began some Retrenchments within the Marquis of ’ - Athol s yard dykes, the old breaches whereof they made up ’ 3 3 Of with loose stones . In the afternoon 00 the enemy fi appeared on the hills, and sent in a message of de ance . On the Monday morning the regiment was reinforced by two troops Of horse and three of dragoons under the com At i mand of Lord Cardross . night they had intell gence of fi a great gathering by the ery cross, and the number of the enemy had increased by the morning to more than a thousand . i 20th Next morn ng ( ) about eight of the clock the horse , ’ d ta foot, and dragoons made ready to march out, but a e ch d party was sent before of fourty fusiliers and fifteen hal ertiers r b , under command of Capt George Mon o and thirty A horse with Sir James gnew, and twenty dragoons with the Lord Cardross his own cornet ; after them followed Ensign

h a lbertiers. fi Lockhart with thirty The rst detached party, a fter they had marched about two miles, found before them

1 2 Li e o n Bla ckadd er . 74 90. Ib. . 90 se . f f Colo el , pp , , p g COLONEL GEORGE MONRO 4 1

20 300 fi in a glen betwixt 0 and of the rebels, who red at a great distance and shot Cornet Livingston in the leg . The r r r horse reti ed, and Captain Mon o took up thei ground, and firein ur advanced, g upon the rebels to so good p p ose , that li of they began to reel and break, but ral ed on the face the

ll n . A next hi , from whence they were agai beat bout that Collonel time the Lieutenant came up , and ordered Captain Monro to send a serjeant with 6 men to a house on the Side of es ed of U the wood, where he py some the enemies . pon ’ of the serjeant s approach to the place , about twenty the rebels appeared against him , but he was quickly seconded i by the Captain , who beat them over the h ll and cleared the ground of as many as appeared without the woods ; and O ff upon a command sent to him brought his men in order. f Thereafter all the horse, oot and dragoons retired to the town r and that night the horse and d agoons marched to Perth, the dr i rec elve Lord Car oss, who commanded them , hav ng d two ’ peremptory orders for that effect . The departure of the cavalry and the k nowledge that they must soon expect the main body of Highlanders under ’ u i ’ Cannon, D ndee s successor, proved too much for the sold ers

nerve . Some of them proposed that they might also march, n ill seei g they were in an open useless place , provided of mi all things , and in the midst of ene es . The brave Collonel Of O fi Lieutenant , and the rest the gentlemen f cers a ll r amongst them, used arguments of honou to persuade them to keep their post ; and for their encouragement and

to assure them they would never leave them, they ordered dr Th e to aw out all their horses to be shot dead . souldiers for r r then told them they needed not that pledge thei honou , which they never doubted ; and seeing they found their

stay necessar they would run all hazards with them . d 1 ’ We nesday with the morning s light the rebels appeared, ll ’ standing in order, covering all the hi s about, (for Cannon s

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o ned A army j y the thole men the night before, and they were

5000 . in repute in all above men) Before seven in the morn g, n of ll their can on advanced down to the face a little hi , close 100 upon the town, and men , all armed with back, breast, w and head piece, marched straight to enter the to n , and a

battalion of other foot close with them . Two troops of w horse marched about the to n, and posted on the south west

part of it, betwixt the foord of the river and the church , and other two troops posted in the north- east of the town

near the Cross . The Lieutenant Collonel had before possessed some out n e r posts , with small parties, to whom he poi t d out eve y step ’ All n forc . d for their retreat the outposts bei g , the n rebels advanced most boldly upon the yard dykes all rou d, even upon those parts which stood less than fourty paces

from the river, where they crowded in multitudes, without ’ l our d regard to the shot liberal y p in their faces , and struck r ul with thei swords at the so diers on the dyk , who, with their i pik es and halberts returned the r blows with interest. Others ossest in great numbers p the town houses , out of which they ’

fir did hil . ed within the dyks, as they from the ls about Within an hour Colonel Cleland was killed and the Major disabled, so the command fell to Captain Monro . Finding the soldiers galled in several places by the ’ l enemies shot from the houses, he sent out smal parties of i n pikemen with burn ng faggots upon the poi ts of their pikes , who fired the houses ; and where they found keys in the ’ lock d ur i hi doors, them , and b nt all with n ; w ch raised a e hideous noise from those wretches in the fir . There was of in sixteen them burnt one house, and the whole houses r n n were bu nt dow , except three, wherei some of the regiment were advantageously posted . But all the inhabitants of the fi town , who were not with the enemy, or fled to the elds, ul were received by the so diers into the church . Notwithstanding a ll the gallant resistance which these COLONEL GEORGE MONRO 4 3 f r in u ious rebels met with , they continued their assaults cessantly, until past eleven of the clock . At r length , wea ied with so many fruitless and expensive fi r l assaults , and nding no abatement of the cou age or di i gence of their adversaries, who treated them with continual f l shot rom all their posts , they gave over and fe l back, and run to the hills in great confusion . Whereupon they within beat their drums and flourished their colours , and hollowed after them with a ll expressions of contempt and provocations ’ r a ssa d to return . Thei commanders y to bring them back f ul to a resh assa t , as some prisoners related, but could not ul fi prevail ; for they answered them, they co d ght against

fit fi i v l . men, but it was not to ght any more aga nst de i s ui The rebels being q te gone , they within began to con sider where their greatest danger appeared in time of the for ur conflict ; and rendring these places more sec e , they brought out the seats of the church, with which they made pretty good defences ; especially they fortified these places of the dyk which were made up with loose stones, a poor defence against such desperate assailants . They also cut ’ a ll d down some trees on a little hill , where the enemy g them under covert . Their powder was almost spent, and their su l ed bullets had been spent long before , which they pp y by of im lo ed the diligence a good number of men, who were p y all the time of the action in cutting lead off the house, and in r melting the same little fu rows in the ground, and cutting the pieces into Sluggs to serve for bullets . They agreed that r in case the enemy got over thei dyks , they should retire to ’ if find over ower d the house, and they should themselves p

in . there , to burn it and bury themselves the ashes 15 ll ffi In this action men were ki ed, besides the o cers 0 Th ’ 3 n . e u named, and wou ded acco nt of the enemies 1 300 . loss is uncertain, but they are said to be above slain

1 Th e a bite a unt wri t n b L hi ives the a m nia n ss a t 300 a nd J co cco t e y oc el g C ero lo ,

th a t th e i hla nd s a s ss h a n 20 : M m i s Abb sf d ub . 286 288. of H g er le t e o r ( ot or Cl ) , pp , 44 COLONEL GEORGE MONRO

That handful of inexperienced men was wonderfully animated to a steadfast resistance against a multitude of

r . obstinat fu ies But they gave the glory to God, and praised fi him , and sung psalms after they had tted themselves for a ’ new assault . r Captain Mon o was promoted to be Major after the battle . A The regiment then marched to berdeen, and thence back

n . to Montrose, where it remained for the wi ter 24 1 689 A On September , Sir lexander Monro wrote to Sir Patrick Hume expressing keen dissatisfaction with the ’ i 1 state of the regiment, probably a reflection of his son s v ews An Sir, if ye be acquainted with the Earl of gus, I pray you assure him that his regiment most necessa rly break if h they be not delivered from Blackwood and Mr . Shiels . T ey are worst payed of any of the forces , and they are naked, and their heads are blown up with such notions as renders r them intolle a ble . They are worse than ever they were every way ; the reputation they gained will quick ly wa nish .

I hear the Earl is a discreet youth, and understands his busines ui , and if he desires to have a regiment, he most q te all change the frame of this, for they refuse subjection to

i i . r d scipl ne They run away and retu ns as they please , ther owin brutish officers complies with them in a ll ther dis orders ; gentlemen are disgraced in conjunction with them , and no gentleman can bear Blackwood’ s arbitrary govern ment . If the Earl hade commissions from the King for men worthie O ffi who are to be cers , he might have a good regiment ’ in eight days time of these same souldiers or others . Bot n I fear I have i sisted too long upon this subject, which I was ’ ’ rovok t p to , reflecting upon your sone s company, which i was sent to Ca rdrosse with three more . Your sone is he r fi and some others of the of cers, who have got accompt that almost all these companies are not run away but gone away w ul n ll ith a high hand, declaring they wo d serve no more u ti

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they got ther pay for August and September, and all malig O ffi nant cers were rem owed from them , and these are in a a ll word the gentlemen . I saw a letter this day from Captain Campbell dated from Purgatorie , wishing he had gone to keep sheep when he fi rst put himself into such company. Yet these who under stands them are perswaded that if they were quite of ther

Ofli cer . beastly s and Mr Shiels and Blackwood , they might d oubtles be very tractable souldiers , and they would be l ’ brave fel ows . 1 6 l Early in 90 the regiment was reduced by bal ot, and ’ 1 5 . George Monro s company, No . , was one of those disbanded

He then took command of an independent company of foot , 100 A strong, which was quartered for a time at Blair thole and afterwards at Finla rig on Loch Tay as a garrison against 3 fi attacks by the Highlanders . He was ordered to take fty l 15 1 691 men to Fort Wil iam on December , just before the 3 l massacre of Glencoe . Subsequently he served in Ho land in ’ as Major Colonel George Hamilton s Regiment of Foot, and was present at the siege and capture of Namur from the A 16 5 A r French in ugust 9 . few months later he reti ed 4 owing to some pecuniary difficulties with his Colonel . He n r then married and settled down in Stirli gshi e , and was 29 1698 ’ appointed on January , his father s colleague and successor as Commissary. He was eventually given the rank of Colonel .

His wife was Margaret Bruce, second daughter of Robert

of Auchinbowie . Bruce This property, which lies in the

. five Of r parish of St Ninians about miles south Sti ling, had i 1506 been in the Bruce fam ly since , when it was acquired

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1 n O f P lm a i e from Robert Cun ingham o s by Robert Bruce , 3 r fif A Air . bu gess of Stirling , th son of lexander Bruce of th ’ Bruce s descendant and namesake , Robert Bruce, died in 1 694 , leaving three daughters , Janet , Margaret and Jean ; and Janet succeeded to the undivided property under an 3 . ll entail executed by him She married Captain Wi iam Bruce , ’ of Colonel John Buchan s regiment, eldest son of William

N ewtoun . A 3 1 699 ll Bruce of On pril 0 , Captain Bruce ki ed hi A a young neighbour , Charles Elp nstone of irth, in a quarrel as they were riding home from a convivial meeting at Lord ’ 4 2 2 Forrester s . He fled from justice , and on September ’ was fugitated. Ten years later he returned to stand his trial, and successfully pleaded the Act of Indemnity of r which granted, as an encou agement to loyalty, a general ff free pardon for past o ences . Meanwhile his wife found herself unable to cope with the Auchinb owie burdens on , and as she had no family she sold her interest in the property to her sister Margaret and Major r Mon o her husband . She died in October 2 1 1 02 7 The disposition is dated February , 7 , and narrates that some creditors have already raised sum m ond s and nl intented a process of adjudication, and others will certai y rovock ed be p to doe the same , whereby the said lands and estate are in hazard to be lost by me , to the great hurt and prejudice Of the heirs Of tailzie a fterm entioned ; all which c a a citie I am not in a p to prevent , being altogether destitute of money or any other means to free me of or support me under such a burden ; and seeing that my second lawful S ister Margaret Bruce and Major George Monro her husband are in a far better condition for freeing and relieving the said

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THE BRUCES OF AUCHINBOWIE 4 7

of Auchinbowie lands , estate and barony of the present burden l S it y under, and that she is the next heir after me to our said dearest father, and that by granting of these presents his memory and estate may be preserved accordingly she n £4 0 sold them the estate , reservi g a liferent annuity of 0 r Of Scots , and also stipulating that the su name Bruce should h n be preserved . T is last co dition was disregarded, and Major Monro and his wife were thenceforth known as Monros u h in ie of A c bow .

It is to be observed that at that time, and down to its in 1 789 S division , the property was twice its present ize ,

fifteen- - and was valued as a merk land . The mansion house is typical Of the seventeenth century : it is an L- shaped i bu lding , and used to have an octagonal staircase in the Old u n angle . On an s ndial on the law the Bruce and Monro — G . M. M arms are quartered, with the initials , . E . George 1 r . Mon o, Margaret Bruce

’ On his father s death George Monro succeeded to Bear 3500 crofts under burden of merks of debt, and subject to provisions in favour of his three sisters amounting to

merks . He represented to them that these encumbrances ul were more than the property co d bear, and induced them to forgo 1000 merks each ; but they stipulated that their fi Of brother John was to get half the bene t this concession . George Monro soon proved the groundlessness of his argument . li l by sel ng the property for merks to Margaret Hami ton, B widow of John Hamilton of a ngour . The sale took place 1 706 in January , but by arrangement the price was paid in n ur instalments rangi g over the next fo teen years . On A 4 1 720 B a n our ugust , Lady g sold the property to Patrick f 3 Haldane, advocate , a terwards of Gleneagles . It now belongs Z to the Marquis of etland .

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1 710 l Be Sir Robert Sibbald, writing about , cal s a rcrofts ’ fine s a House with Gardens and Inclosures, but the remain , i which now form part of the farm build ngs, are those of a very modest habitation . George Monro was one of the Commissioners appointed by the Crown in 1 71 8 to inquire into the disorders and U irregularities in Glasgow niversity, especially in connection 1 with the rectorial elections . e 1 720 r In Sept mber Colonel Mon o , who was by that time Auchinbowie Al hi a widower, disponed to exander, s eldest 4 1 1 son, who had lately married (contract dated March , 7 9) Tillicultr Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart of y, a Judge of the Court of Session . The Colonel stipulated to be i Auch inbowie allowed to l ve at with the young couple , and to be given £50 a year of pocket money. He also resigned fi A his of ce as Commissary, to which lexander was appointed

A 2 1 72 1 . on pril 7, Colonel Monro died later in the year. H r 26 1 0 is other child en were Margaret, born March , 7 7, was A 1 1 and George , who commissioned on ugust 9, 71 8 ’ Lieutenant in Maj or- General John Hill s Regiment ( 1 1 th Foot) ’ a s in D uroure s 1 2th he w afterwards Colonel ( ) Regiment, and 1 1 n 6 43 . was killed at the battle of Dettingen, Ju e , 7

An early misdemeanour brought ALEX AND E R MO NRO under i 2 u . ni his the cens re of St Ni ans k rk session, but after mar ria e . 20 g he reformed He was chosen an elder on January , 22 ll his 1 7 , and almost every year ti death he was selected n to represent the session at synod and presbytery meeti gs . In 1 734 he fought the kirk session before the presbytery over a prOposa l to erect the church steeple on part of the Old e Auchinbowi burying ground, but he was unsuccessful, and Of Old 3 eventua lly accepted the site the steeple in exchange .

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1 1 74 6 r n On February , the chu ch , which was bei g used as a powder magazine by the Highland army, was blown up , but the steeple , an elegant piece of architecture , escaped l t di destruction, and stil stands, hough at a stance from the present church . Auchinbowie was encumbered with merks of debt when Alexander Monro got it ; his finances soon became 1 33 seriously embarrassed, and eventually in 7 he granted a 1 trust deed in favour of five of his principal creditors -his

- in- of Tillicultr brother law, Sir Robert Stewart y, his cousin , f A r P rim us r Pro essor lexander Mon o ( ) , and th ee others . They n f r appoi ted their own actor, and managed the prope ty during the remainder of his life . ’ 1 738 fir In , on the death of his mother s st cousin, Grizel Al Reidh eu h Bruce, exander Monro succeeded to Riddoch or g , i Bea rcroft a small property adjoin ng s.

lli Grizel Bruce was the daughter of Wi am , brother of ru Auchinbowie Robert B ce of , and Riddoch had belonged Al 3 to her grandfather, James exander. She was an eccentric r and impulsive woman . When a gi l of nin eteen she gave orders for the uprooting of ninety- two trees which Sir Alex r ander Mon o had planted on the march between the properties, and in consequence was summoned before the Justices of the 3 Peace and fined . Th e succession to Riddoch came to Alexander Monro as the result of a curious and discreditable adventure of the ’ 4 1 14 lady s . In 7 , when she was of the mature age of thirty S di even, she made an expe tion to London . She was no r temptation for her beauty, her reputation was not enti e, and the company with whom she consorted was none of the

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’ h best . On short acquaintance she went t rough a ceremony of marriage with a man who held himself out to be Sir John C olvile n £1500 , with an i come of a year, but turned out

h - next day to be one Colqu oun, an ex sergeant of Footguards, r A r with several wives al eady . lexander Mon o , who was a 1 mere youth at the time, came up to London in March 715 he found lodgings for his cousin and busied himself in getting the marriage annulled and procuring the conviction of u Colq houn , who was burnt through the hand and imprisoned

as his punishment . In return for his services she promised ,

or else he suggested, a disposition to him of Riddoch in the n fi i event of her dying without children. Nothi g de n te was 2 1 i in done , and on May , while driv ng a coach with him, she ns was arrested for debt at the i tance of her lawyer, and taken to a spunging- house but whether this was a plot arranged Af ’ by young Monro was a matter of dispute . ter two days confinement she agreed to sign a disposition as the price of r her liberty, but on her retu n to Scotland she raised an action

to have it set aside . The Court of Session took her view,

but the decision was reversed in the House of Lords, and the disposition held good . Riddoch was in the barony of r nli Falki k , but as the Earl of Li thgow, the superior, was n e 1 15 attai t d after the 7 , Grizel Bruce took the opportunity n w 1 of getti g a charter direct from the Cro n, the annual reddendo being eighteen shillings . Al i 1 2 his exander Monro d ed on October , and di r 27 widow ed in Edinbu gh on September , They i had a large family, but all seem to have d ed unmarried, GE RGE in except O , the eldest son, an army surgeon, who h erited Auch inbowie and Riddoch . The others who grew 4 A din r A 10 up were lexander, a writer in E bu gh, born ugust , 1 24 r 15 1 750 7 , died unma ried February , , John , and the eldest

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1 6 1 719 15 girl Cecil , born December , , died January , f — Th e children who died in in ancy were Robert , born July 1 722 A 1 723 Grissell , Margaret, born ugust , , born January A 1 2 1 726 A 1 727 7 9. , Marion , born pril , and Heugh, born ugust

’ On his father s death GE OR GE MON R O made up a formal r title to both prope ties . He seems to have sold Riddoch , but the management of Auchinbowie continued in the hands of the trustees for the creditors , who advertised it to be let , 2 a describing it as including a l rge mansion house with stables , barns , pigeon house , etc . , all in good condition, and the garden and orchards containing about six acres stocked i with fru t trees of the best kinds , as also the laigh inclosures consisting of arable , pasture and meadow grounds , contain ing about eighty acres and the high inclosures and fir B a rsid e park called the Bar and , a good part of which is r ni 1 92 arable and the rest a good pastu e , contai ng acres and dr 2 fenced with a y stone dyke, ells in height, all well watered ’ and lying contigue . In May 1 744 Professor Monro and the other creditors entered into an arrangement whereby the Professor took i £5236 over all the debts on the estate, then amount ng to , and the trustees granted a renunciation in favour of the r di lai d, who thereupon sponed the estate to the Professor ’ un n 1 200 der burden of his mother s an uity of merks . On 22 1 744 3 June , the Professor obtained a Crown charter of hi f his in favour mself in li erent, and John eldest son in Auchinbowie u fee , and thus passed to the yo nger branch of Sir Al the family, who are descended from exander Monro r r fts of Bea c o through his son John . George Monro was appointed to the family office of 2 1 742 l 1 65 Commissary on November , , and held it til 7 , but for most of the time he must have exercised it by deputy,

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’ for as early as 1 750 he was Surgeon in the Earl of Paumure s

25th . in e ( ) Regiment He saw active service G rmany, and A H afterwards in the war against the French in merica . e

- 1 3 1 8 1 was placed on half pay in 77 , but in 7 he was appointed M n Physician General to the garrison in i orca, and went ’ through the six months siege by the French and Spaniards . It was on the strength of reports by him and his colleagues a fi u that General Murr y nally s rrendered. 1 1 1 782 : i On February , he reported The prevail ng di r sease, the scu vy, amongst the troops, is got to such an alarming height as seems to us to admit of no remedy in our present situation ; every means has been tried to palliate this formidable malady, but the daily and we may say, the fil hourly falling down of the men b a es all our endeavours . We are sorry to add that it does not appear to us that any one now in hospital will be able to do the smallest duty ’ under the present circumstances . The General in reply asked that the men on duty should

l r 3 . r be medica ly examined, and on Februa y Dr Mon o reported 560 106 that there were men in hospital, of whom had gone

i 660 ll . down in the last two days , wh le were sti on duty a dd We judge it necessary to that those men will, in all i in probab lity, be a few days incapable of performing any duty, from the rapid progress the scurvy makes amongst : them the constant duty the men are obliged to perform, the impossibility of procuring any kind of vegetables in the ff ul a ir present situation of a airs, and the damp fo those men n a re uffi t consta tly breathe in the subterraneans, cause s cien ’

e . to d read the consequences . Two days lat r Fort St Philip was surrendered. r A Dr. George Mon o married Jane, daughter of ndrew ‘

M m ish Oricfi i . di Co of , and rel ct of Law Robertson He ed A r din u 24 at gyle Square, E burgh, on Febr ary , aged

- ll 28 about seventy two : his widow survived ti December ,

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CHAPTER IV

JOHN MONRO S R EO IN EDI B RGH , U G N N U

N N R A r P rim us JOH MO O , father of Professor lexander Mon o ( ) , was the third son of Sir Alexander Monro of Bea rcrofts Lillia s E a stoun n and , and was baptized at Edi burgh on 1 19 6 . October , 70 wa s in h sio r He educated p y and su gery, being apprenticed w r 1 689 to William Borth ick, su geon, and after to the famous

. his i Dr Christopher Irvine . He got part of train ng at Leyden Uni 1 1 versity, which he entered on October ,

r 1 695 is r . On Ma ch 7, he was comm sioned Su geon in Lieut ’ ir Bela s General S Henry yse s Regiment of Foot, in after th n years the 6 (Warwickshire) Regiment . Duri g that spring in they were in camp between Bruges and Ghent, and later the yea r they took part in the siege of Namur under the personal command of King William II I . The regiment 1 696 returned to England in March , and was quartered at d l Win sor, and after being in Brussels from Ju y to November 1697 n A 1 698 , it agai came home, and in ugust was ordered

to n . Ireland, where it remai ed for three years During several successive winters John Monro got leave of absence, and lived in London, and some time during this his n period he married cousi , Jean, daughter of Captain

James Forbes , second son of the Duncan Forbes who bought A l 1 616 . the barony of Cu loden in Her mother, gnes Monro, 2 r P itlundie . was a daughter of Mr. George Mon o of

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A 15 Captain James Forbes , who died at Culloden on pril , 2 f —Al 1 67 , le t, besides his daughter Jean, two sons exander, i merchant in Edinburgh , who d ed in and Charles , who was Captain in the regiment commanded by the Colonel Hill who became notorious on account of the massacre of

Glencoe . Captain Charles Forbes afterwards joined the ill fated expedition to the Darien colony, and died there in 1 July 699. Professor Alexander Monro (P rim us) was born in London 8 1697—if nl on September , not an o y child, the only one who survived . r i In 1 700 John Mon o left the army, and settled in Ed n 1000 burgh . He had to borrow merks from his sisters to

- enable him to set up in business as a chirurgeon apothecary, but shortly afterwards he succeeded to £1 100 Scots on the death of his sister Mary. He was admitted to the Incorporation of Surgeons on 1 1 1 03 March , 7 , and his knowledge in his profession and engaging manners soon introduced him into an extensive ’ n practice . The Town Cou cil appointed him to take charge ’ fi of their sick pensioners . His apothecary s shop was rst ’ ’ 2 F fe s in Smith s new land at the head of Bailie y Close , and afterwards in David Kinloch’ s land 3 on the north side of ’ ’ the High Street between Ha lk erston s Wynd and Kinloch s

Close . 171 2 1 71 3 In and he was elected Deacon of the Surgeons , and in the same years was chosen Deacon Convener of the wi n Trades th a seat on the Town Cou cil, as a gentleman ’ ’ l - ff P we l a ected to Her Majesty s erson and Government . He also sat as one of the representatives of the City in the r r Convention of Royal Bu ghs du ing that period . On the his accession of George I . he gave allegiance to the House of

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H e anov r, and is mentioned among those who took part in A 5 1 14 the proclamation at the Cross on ugust , 7 .

All honour is due to John Monro . He conceived the scheme which created the Edinburgh Medical School and fi Royal In rmary, and he determined that his son should be n the instrument for accomplishi g it . He was careful to give him every advantage in general and professional education fit his to him for career, and while the bov was gron f up , he himsel was busy arousing enthusiasm for the scheme n among his professional brethren and the mu icipal authorities, l P u and especial y with the famous rovost George Dr mmond .

He lived . to see the complete success of his plan, and his r grandson, Dr. Donald Mon o , gives a pleasant picture of the ’ Ca rrolsid e r old man s latter days , which he spent at , a count y seat near Earlston in Berwickshire bought for him by his n h f ‘ son, happy in havi g ac ieved the idea of his li e and in ’ witnessing his son s renown . H 1 05 1 1 1 is wife died some time between 7 and 7 , and in 1 2 1 r n his i i August 7 he ma ried agai , second w fe be ng Margaret A i . Crichton, w dow of William Main , merchant bout a year later he bought a house of six rooms and a kitchen in a tene 1 His ment on the west side of Covenant Close . son after wards acquired another house on the third story of the 2 ll his same tenement, and lived there ti death . John Monro his also acquired, in right of second wife , a tenement of ’ Halk erston s W houses at the head of ynd, which involved his 3 son in a lengthy litigation . John Monro died at Ca rrolsid e in and his wife m Ai survived hi . His portrait by William kman hangs in ’ Surgeons Hall , Edinburgh .

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58 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

hi and a lasting friends p was formed between them . In order to gain as much experience as possible Monro lodged in the

house of an apothecary and visited patients with him, and Ha . wk sb he also attended lectures by Mr Whiston and Mr. y l on experimental phi osophy. He made dissections of the

human body and of various animals, and his career was nearly cut short owing to a scratched hand being infected by the Ch esel e e r suppurated lung of a phthisical subject . d n nc ou fi r aged his students to form a scienti c society, and Mon o di in took an active part in the scussions , and one of his papers ’ f first sketched his Account of the Bones in general . Be ore he left London he sent home to his father some of his anatom s ical specimen , and received the encouraging reply that on i r un his return to Ed nbu gh , if he continued as he had beg ,

Mr . Drummond would resign his share of the professorship

of Anatomy in his favour . 1 1 8 k In the spring of 7 he went to Paris , where he wal ed the hospitals and attended a course of anatomy given by

Bouquet . He performed operations under the direction of e i Thibaut, and had instruction in midwifery from Gr go re ,

Oe Ch om el. bandages from sau, and botany from 1 6 1 1 8 On November , 7 he entered as a student of Leyden

University in order to study under Boerhaave , the great r o physician, who lectu ed on the theory and practice of physi . l Many patients from Scotland came to consu t Boerhaave, ’ and were put under Monro s care : the young man had frequent and ready access to him , and the friendship thus

formed lasted for many years . On his return to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1 71 9 young

Monro was examined by the Incorporation of Surgeons , and was admitted a member on November 1 9. Mr . Drummond then fulfilled his promise of resigning his professorship , and

‘ M ill k rec omm end a Mr . G did li ewise and they gave him a U un . tion to the Town Co cil, the patrons of the niversity 22 This was backed up by the Surgeons, and on January , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RI M US ) 59 1 720 the Council appointed him Professor of Anatomy with of £15 a salary sterling , this modest sum being supplemented ’ f by the students ees of three guineas a head. An ’ His Colledge of atomy in all it s parts , with the Opera tions of Surgery and Bandages was advertised 1 to begin on fi the rst Monday of November following, and in the meantime his father privately made great exertions to attract notice l to the inauguration of the undertaking . The Col ege of Physicians presented to the Town Council a resolution in 2 u of ur u f on favo r its enco agement, which the Co ncil itsel 3 ’ d orsed and the opening lecture in the old Surgeons Hall was attended by the magistrates , the Deacon and board of the Surgeons , and the President and members of the College hi of Physicians . T s unexpected company so much alarmed of r the young professor that he forgot the words his lectu e , which he had committed to memory but fortunately he had the presence of mind to begin by showing some anatomical i preparations and explain ng them in impromptu language , f with success ul results . He afterwards adopted the practice of speaking from short notes . r n His anatomical cou se , which lasted u til the end of

- A i for . r pr l, was repeated thirty nine sessions His lectu es of were illustrated by dissections the human body, and also , 4 of of r fish es . for comparison , the bodies quad upeds, birds , and A fter giving the anatomy of each part he treated of its diseases, especially those requiring operation . He showed the opera i tions on the dead body , w th the various bandages and

ur . apparatus, and ended with a few lect es on physiology In the summer of 1 72 1 and 1 722 he was persuaded by his father to give a course of public lectures on wounds and tumours .

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Rutherford, Innes, and Plummer, who had also been study ing at Leyden under Boerhaave, were appointed by the Town Council to lecture on chemistry and various branches of medicine . The whole scheme was framed upon the model of Leyden U ’ niversity, and it is not surprising that Boerhaave s doctrines had a great influence in Edinburgh ; in the anatomy class the text - books were his I nstitutiones m edicee and Aphorisrni r i M de cognoscendis et cu a nd s orbis . Between 1 71 3 and 1 71 8 the University had conferred the i degree of Doctor of Med cine upon four applicants , no examina 1 18 Uni tion being required of them . In November 7 the versity applied to the Royal College of Physicians to nominate one or more of their Fellows to join with Dr . Crawford,

P . rofessor of Physic , in examining a candidate This practice was adopted on about eight occasions down to November 1 726 U i , when the n versity intimated to the College that now that there was a sufficient number of Professors of Fa cultie di ul Medicine to make a of Me cine, they sho d not

trouble the Colledge any more upon that head . But were r thankful for what favou s they had received, and desired to ’ 1 live in good correspondence with the Colledge . It does not appear that the Professor of Anatomy was one of the examiners at this date ; the degree was looked upon as

purely medical . ’ Monro s original appointment as professor was only during 1 22 the pleasure of the Town Council, but in 7 , encouraged

by his success, he applied for a permanent status, and although

1 Minu s o R C E N v mb 1 1726 . te f . . P . o e er , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RI M US ) 6 1 the Council had as lately as August 1 719 reaffirmed the principle that regentships and professorships were to be held r at their pleasu e , nevertheless they departed from it , and by ‘ Ma rch 14 1 722 his resolution of , , for better encouragement of new nominate Alexander Monro sole Professor of Anatomy ’

a nd a d vita rn a ut cul a ra . within this City and College , that p ’ This important precedent was probably due partly to Monro s own brilliance and partly to the sage advice of George f Drummond ; it was a terwards followed, and had the effect of giving the professors a position of independence and dignity which they had not hitherto enjoyed . ’ Till 1 725 Monro continued to lecture in the old Surgeons ’ Hall on the south side of Surgeons Square , but in that year r he was g anted a theatre in the University buildings . The fif change was due to special circumstances . For teen years past there had been a popular suspicion that some of the young surgeons were violating graves in order to get bodies for di 20 1 1 1 ssection , and on May , 7 the Incorporation of Surgeons held a meeting to consider measures for stopping this practice , and put on record their condemnation of it . ’ The great stimulus to anatomical study given by Monro s r ff lectu es had the e ect of reviving the alarm , and the Surgeons took further steps by ordering that a clause should be put into all indentures of apprentices against violation of the ’ 1 churchyards . The Professor himself had to submit to stringent regulations in procuring subjects, and had to notify ffi each body by letter to the o cials of the Incorporation.

These measures did not allay the excitement of the populace , who towards the end of the session 1 724 - 5 beset the Hall n diffi threateni g to demolish it, and the tumult was with culty quelled by the magistrates . A 1 7 1 725 r On pril , Professor Mon o wrote to the news 3 : papers Whereas several Reports have of late been spread,

1 Minu es o Su ons a nua 24 1 721 Ma h 2 1725 . t f rge , J ry , rc , 3 d n M i 2 172 a ia n u A 0 5 . C le o erc ry, pr l , 62 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US ) a nd nin P are believed by well mea g but too credulous eople, A r that the Surgeon pprentices , encou aged by the Professor A if l of natomy, have l ted or attempted to ift human Bodies Interrc m ent from their Graves or Places of , and that such , who because of the Vigilance of the Magistrats durst not r n n continue in thei vile Practices of Pilferi g and Robbi g , n u have , by personating Surgeo s , endeavo red to skreen themselves from Discovery, and thereby brought a Calumny if and Scandal on those Surgeons, as they could be so destitute of all Religion and Humanity, as to be guilty of that mon struousl y barbarous Crime of dissecting living Men and Women, r di 1 or of taking away thei lives in order to ssect them ; , Al r An exander Mon o , Professor of atomy, do therefore take this Opportunity publickly to declare my just Abhorrence i n of that vile , abom nable, and most i humane Crime of steal r ing human Bodies out of thei Graves , and which must ’ directly tend to the Ruin of my Profession . He ended by offering a reward of £3 sterling for the discovery of each ff hi f o ender, and t s was rein orced by the Incorporation of A ff 1 Chirurgeon pothecaries , who o ered a reward of £ 0 , and ff by the magistrates, who o ered To prevent a recurrence of these disturbances and to ensure the safety of his anatomical collection Monro applied to the Town Council on October 20 for a theatre within the e University. G orge Drummond had just been elected Lord

Provost, and at his instance the request was at once granted, and Monro was formally received into the University on 3 1 725 l November , , the day on which his friend Co in Maclaurin was inducted to his professorship of Mathematics as assistant r A to Professor Gregory . Incidentally the chai of natomy passed from the control of the Incorporation of Surgeons . At the end of 1 726 Monro published his Ana tomy of the 2 Hu n B ones di on in his ma , which went through eight e ti s

if . l etime, the later ones including a treatise on the nerves

1 3 un i R is 1. 478 . a donia n M u a nua r 5 1727 . Co c l eg ter, C le erc ry, J y , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US ) 63

It was translated into most European languages , and in 1 759 a folio edition with elegant engravings was published M Sué A in Paris by . Joseph , Professor of natomy to the Royal Schools of Surgery and to the Royal Academy of ’ Painting and Sculpture . The great reputation which Monro s work attained did much to increase the fame of the new school n r of medici e in Edinbu gh . Professor Monro and Provost Drummond are rightly fi considered the founders of the Royal In rmary, but this n institution, like the rest of the scheme, was originally plan ed ’ f by the Professor s ather . The magistrates had for long appointed a physician and a surgeon to attend the sick poor among the freemen burgesses, and the Physicians and Surgeons as corporations had given gratuitous advice and medicines to the rest of the poor. In 1 72 1 John Monro and some of his friends proposed l the establishment of a regu ar hospital, and an appeal for dr f 1 funds was awn up by the Pro essor and circulated. For ui for several years the scheme lang shed want of support, but 1 725 at the end of it was revived by Provost Drummond, who formed the nucleus of a fun d by obtaining assignations in un of some shares the morib d Fishing Company, of which 2 he was a manager . The plan was taken up by the Royal 3 College of Physicians , who headed the subscription list and secured the support of the ministers of the Church of

Scotland, the Episcopal clergy and the public of Edinburgh . In three years £2000 was subscribed : the College of Phy sicia ns called a meeting of subscribers , and a committee was elected to carry the scheme into execution . A 1 1 727 On ugust , the College of Physicians had passed a resolution binding its members to attend the hospital in rotation for a fortnight at a time , their services to be given

1 F i R r n M a na s o I ma s 1 730. r t epo t f fir ry ger , 2 — Adv. Lib. a m hl s . P p et , TgB 3 is o o R a In ma 1 778 . 4 se . H t ry f oy l fir ry, , p q 64 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

1 gratuitously. The provision of surgical treatment and fi ul ur medicines presented a dif c ty, for overt es had been made at the same time to the Incorporation of Surgeons suggesting similar action on their part , but there was con al sidera ble je ousy between the two bodies, and no answer was A di 1 3 1 729 received. ccor ngly on January , , at one of the r first meetings of the managers, Professor Mon o volunteered to undertake the whole surgical attendance and to furnish

medicines at cost price . This generous offer was accepted, but when the Surgeons heard of it, they entertained some dismal ’ s ff apprehension and consequences , and hastily o ered that their members should attend in turn and that they would furnish medicines gratis for two years . Professor Monro expressed his willingness to give way if the committee pre ferred this arrangement, but they seem not to have been satisfied that the offer contained a sufficiently definite obli a tion l wa s u g , and eventua ly a solution fo nd in a personal r i r undertaking by six su geons, includ ng Messrs . Mon o and ‘ ill u M G , to make themselves responsible for the s rgical u attendance and supply of medicines gratis, ntil the patients should exceed a certain number. 6 1 729 fi 3 On August , the rst hospital was Opened at a small house which the subscribers had rented at the ’ nn n head of Robertson s Close, a street ru i g south from the

Cowgate . us 25 1 36 n On Aug t , 7 the managers obtai ed a Royal u l infirm a r Charter, and appealed for funds to b ild a regu ar y .

There was a liberal response , and two years later Robert r Adam , the eminent architect, was employed to d aw plans 25 found a for a building to accommodate about 0 beds . The

A 2 1 738 . tion was laid on ugust , , and Messrs Drummond and Monro were unanimously chosen by the contributors to serve

1 indi a ion o the M a na s o the R a In ma 1741 . 4 se . Minu s o A V c t f ger f oy l fir ry, p q te f

E . Au ust 5 1729. R. C . P . , g , 3 u s a R s 1893 vol. i. . 3 . Edinb rgh Ho pit l eport , , p

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r r with Monro as secreta y . Du ing the first year the members n attended the meeti gs regularly, and papers were read and 1 732 discussed, but in , after the publication of the first M edica l Essa s a nd Observa tions mi volume of y , they grew re ss

in their attendance , and very soon the meetings ceased

altogether . The Society published six volumes, which passed hr t ough several editions and were translated into the French, nr German, and Dutch languages . Mo o is said to have con

tributed about a quarter of the material, and his labours

i s . as ed tor were con iderable Sir Robert Strange , the engraver, says that while apprenticed to Cooper he worked at some of mi the anato cal plates . In 1 737 a proposal was adopted to increase interest in the Society by enlarging its scope so as to include all branches 1 - fi of natural science . There were forty ve original members hi of the Philosop cal or Physical Society, as it was now

c fi - alled, and they met at rst in one of the lecture rooms in the University and afterwards in the Advocates’ Library on the first Thursday in each month except September and M October . James, fourteenth Earl of orton, was elected P nr resident, and Mo o was invited to be Secretary on the in P medical side , but decl ed, and his place was taken by ro; fessor r Plummer, with Colin Maclau in as his colleague for the $ new section? Once more keenness at the start was succeeded li 1 745 l by lethargy, and the rebel on of , fol owed a few months ’ Ma cla urin s later by death , dealt the Society such a blow as

. 1 752 vi to leave it comatose for several years In it was re ved, and Monro was persuaded to take the secretaryship jointly ‘ ’ 3 with the very ingenious and celebrated David Hume Esq. In 1 754 a volume of transactions appeared under the title E s a nd Observa tions P h sica l a nd Litera r of ssa y , y y, and it r was followed two years later by another volume . Mon o

1 - R a S i t Edinbu h G n a Ind x v s . 1 34 . 3 a nd 22 . List oy l oc e y of rg , e er l e of ol , pp of e i t origina l members a nd rules of th Philosophica l Soc e y. 3 S o s M a a in 1754 . 184 . c t g z e, , p PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONR‘ O (P RIM US ) 67 contributed two papers to the first series and four to the second .

The Society seemed likely to languish again , so Professor

- Al Monro was chosen a Vice President, and his son exander (S ecundus) became Secretary ; but the next volume did not appear until 1 771 .

Monro soon attained a European reputation as a teacher. 1 Principal Sir Alexander Grant says He was the first professor of any kind who drew great attention to the Uni nni versity of Edinburgh from without, and gave it the begi ngs ’ of its celebrity . The number of students in the class of anatomy increased 3 steadily during the first year there were 5 7 in attendance fir 67 109 the average for the st decade was , for the second , r S ecundus and for the third 14 7 . Mon o ( ) calculated that ’ 4431 hr students passed t ough his father s hands, and they were drawn from all parts of the British Isles and from the

Continent too . An interesting tribute to Monro comes from the pen of

i . Ol ver Goldsmith , perhaps his most famous pupil He spent

in di 1 752 - 3 1 753 - 4 two sessions E nburgh, and , and wrote to 3 Conta rine 8 1 753 his uncle , the Rev . Thomas , on May , A l ’ propos , I sha l give you the professors names , and, as

1 S o o th e niv si o Edinbu h 11 . 386. t ry f U er ty f rg , 3 B w is o o the niv si 11. 179 iv s numbe s whi h w e co m o er (H t ry f U er ty, ) g e r , c er munica ted b M n T ius as ws y o ro ( ert ) , follo 1 720 57 1730 83 1740 1 72 1 68 1731 82 1 74 1 1722 62 1732 107 1742 1723 68 1733 104 1743

1724 58 1734 1 1 1 1 744 1752 - 8 1725 51 1735 95 1745 1726 65 1736 1 31 1746 1727 81 1 737 1 23 1 747 1728 70 1 738 1 19 1748 1 729 90 1739 137 1749

3 ' la o G dsmi h hn F s i. 434 . fe f ol t , Jo or ter, 68 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

fir s d eserv far as occurs to me, their characters ; and st, as mo t

in Mr r A . g, . Mon o, Professor of natomy This man has brought the science he teaches to as much perfection as it is capable of and not content with barely teaching anatomy, he h sio a ll launches out into all the branches of p y , when his ’ remarks are new and useful . Tis he , I may venture to say, that draws hither such a number of students from most ul parts of the world, even from Russia . He is not only a skilf r physician, but an able orator, and delivers things in thei r nl nature obscu e in so easy a manner, that the most u earned may understand him . 18 the nl You see then, dear sir, that Monro o y great man among them so that I intend to hear him another winter, ’

Al . and go then to hear binus , the great professor at Leyden

. A d 1 790 Dr n rew Duncan, Professor of Physiology from 1 1 82 1 P rim us to , wrote of Monro ( ) He studied medicine i l w th a zeal and industry seldom para leled, perhaps never e exceed d . He taught it with an enthusiasm and liberality

of sentiment proportioned to the importance of the art, ’ and he neglected no opportunity of encouraging genius . u Dr . Thomas Somerville , Minister of Jedb rgh, gives the 3 following account of him a s a lecturer He lectured in

. H English is style was fluent , elegant and perspicuous , and his pronunciation perhaps more correct than that of any public speaker in Scotland at this time; I heard his con 1 757 cluding lecture at the end of the session , and I think I had never before been so much captivated with the power di r r dr and beauty of eloquent scou se . The pu pose of his ad ess was to impress on his students the moral and religious improve

ment of the science of anatomy, as it displayed evidence of nfi s the wisdom , power, and i nite goodne s of the Creator, w n whom , in conclusion, he entreated them ith great solem ity, ma n in the words of the wise , to remember now in the days $ of their youth .

1 3 - a v ia n O a i n or 1780 33 . Li a nd Tim s . 1 9 23 . H r e r t o f , p. fe e , pp PROFESSOR ALEXAN DER MONRO (P RIM US) 69

In the session of 1 753 - 4 the lecture - room proved too f small, and the Pro essor found it necessary to divide the class and repeat his lecture in the evening . He soon handed over A S ecundus the evening class to his youngest son , lexander ( ) ,

1 1 1 54 n . who was on July , 7 admitted co junct Professor The young man was only in his twenty- second year and his fi education was not nished, so during the next four years he could give little assistance , but he took sole charge of the class at the beginning of while his father was suffering f f fi rom a dangerous ever, which con ned him to bed for nearly of 1 758 fi l r three months . In the summer he na ly retu ned n from abroad, and assisted in lecturing duri g the next session . P rim us then gave up lecturing and confined himself to giving clinical instruction at the Infirmary in conjunction ll with Drs . Cu en and Whytt . He had been undertaking this duty for the past three years since the retirement of Dr . n Rutherford, and continued to give instruction u til his last illness . 1 1 5 6 U nf On January , 7 the niversity of Edinburgh co erred mi upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine . He was ad tted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians upon February 3 following, thereupon resigning his membership of the Incor ora tion p of Surgeons, and he was elected a Fellow of the 5 College on March of the same year, on the same day as his ll i friend and colleague Dr. Wi iam Cullen, whose cand dature he warmly supported for the chair of Chemistry in 1 755 and r l for that of Physic in 1 766 . Mon o had been elected a Fel ow ’ th e 1 723 Ch eseld en s of Royal Society of London in , on recommendation, and he was also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris . n a ll He had a large private practice , and was co sulted in of e kinds cases , but he was not an operating surgeon, at l ast i not nthe greater operations . His last public work was a

1 Edinbu h u a n F b ua 1 5 1757 . rg Co r t, e r ry , 70 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

treatise on the success of vaccination in Scotland, issued in n 1 765 in answer to inquiries by a board of French physicia s , who were investigating its results .

He could be a formidable antagonist on occasion . Since 1 758 his son Alexander had been engaged in controversy with

William Hunter, the eminent but pugnacious anatomist, as to the originality of their respective researches into the lymphatic glands ; and in 1 762 Hunter contribute d an M di l C m enta ries article to the e ca om , in which he made a r r fu ious onslaught on the Mon os , father and son, and charged them with deliberately suppressing all reference to his dis

c overies di . , and claiming the cre t themselves Monro (P rimus) then entered the lists by publishing An tl n lli E xpostula tory Epis e. He begins by averri g his unwi ng ness to forsake his retirement and resume controversy ; ’ r A but , he says , you late ttack in your medical Commentary t on my Candour and Veracity, the Part of my Charac er which I always valued most, piques me so much , that I must appeal to the P ublic for Redress ; and possibly when the r Spi it is thus roused, something more than my Vindication ’ may appear . ’ u He then demolishes H nter s case piecemeal, and incident s ally refers to one of his publication as a work, where, after

a pompous Introduction, which raises high Expectation of n Novelties, I fou d nothing that I had not seen in Books, ’ except several Mistakes . He brings his letter to an effective climax with a few trenchant paragraphs in the grand style I am a ffra id those ’ who read your Performance won t allow me to call it the ff E ects of Generosity, Charity or Reverence ; possibly you whom mean that you feel Contempt for a Dotard , you say, ou wish to ha ve done with y , which in a charitable Construction, ’ may be to wish him in Abraham s Bosom ; for which good ll Wish your old Master returns you Thanks, and sha at A present have done with you, after giving a friendly dvice PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RI M US ) 7 1 A to you and an Exhortation to the Students in natomy. if A Joke may sometimes pass for Demonstration, and it is f un A i o the sarcastical kind, may please a yo g ud ence ; but n u remember that indulgi g that Sort of Humo r frequently, on fi of f though e is ever so con dent having smooth , art ul, n ambiguous Words always at comma d, will create a Grudge in the Hearts of all good- natured People agains t the sly

- ff ln Back biter . You will give less O ence by speaking plain

Contradiction to those you have Occasion to dispute with , u as you see the bl nt , testy old Fellow you are now engaged with has done . He indulges in a final thrust by signing himself Your ’

ALEx . N R . old Master, MO O P rim us of Monro ( ) was a man extraordinary energy, with a wide range of interests outside the immediate work of his profession, and he took a prominent place in Edinburgh r society. He was libra ian to the Incorporation of Surgeons 1 2 1 72 7 U from 7 0 to , and was also curator of the niversity l i Library, where he provided a col ection of med cal works which he catalogued with his own hand . ’ After Colin Ma cla urin s death in 1 746 he helped to pre ’ pare for publication his Account of Sir I sa a c N ewton s Dis coveries fi , and the memoir pre xed to it is based on an oration which he delivered before the University. They h ad been ll close friends for over twenty years , and the memoir te s of ’ ur Ma cla urin s 1 their last conversation a few ho s before death . r Professor Mon o was an active member of many societies . His connection with the Medical and Philosophical Societies has been already mentioned . He joined the Honourable Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in A Scotland, the earliest forerunner of the Highland and gri

ul . 1 723 c tural Society It was founded in , and perished in ’ the confusion of the 45 .

He was one of the six presidents of the Select Society,

1 ’ Ma a u in A un o N won s Dis v i s . xi. cl r , cco t f e t co er e , p 72 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

hi 23 1 754 A w ch . was started on May , by llan Ramsay the ‘ younger for literary discussion, philosophical inquiry, and ’ 1 improvement in public speaking . It consisted at first f hi A ’ o t rty members, and met in the dvocates Library from six to nine o ’ clock every Wednesday from November 1 2 to

A 1 2 . ugust Professor Monro was an original member, as A were dam Smith and David Hume, who took no part in

the debates , Principal Robertson, the Rev. Hugh Blair, H u D ou la s Al n John ome, a thor of the g , exa der Wedderburn , r afte wards Lord Chancellor Loughborough, Lord Hailes and r Andrew Pringle (Lord Alem o e) . Dugald Stewart says on 3 : the authority of Dr . Jupiter Carlyle The Society was A r . A much indebted to Dr lexander Mon o senior, Sir lexander

Dick , and Mr . Patrick Murray advocate , who by their con stant attenda nce and readiness on every subject supported u fi the debate d ring the rst years of its establishment, when ’ vil otherwise it would have gone hea y on . 1 59 1 30 By 7 the members had risen to , and included — a ll the prominent men of Edinburgh Professor Adam

Fergusson , Lord Provost Drummond, three Lord Presidents ll in Robert Dundas, Thomas Mi ar and Ilay Campbell, Lord Monbodd o Kames , a very active member, Lord and many

other judges .

From the Select Society . sprang two offshoots . On 1 3 1 55 March , 7 the members resolved to establish The Edin r A bu gh Society for the Encouragement of rts , Sciences, ’ ff Manuf actures and Agriculture in Scotland . Its a airs were

put into the hands of nine ordinary managers , of whom Pro or r fess Mon o was one , and nine extraordinary managers ,

the subscription for members being two guineas . The Edin a burgh Society had successful career, and showed its activity mainly by offering premiums in its various departments

for public competition .

1 S o s M a a in 1755 . 1 26. c t g z e, , p 3 K T M m i s o a m s i. 175. in i a R b ts n W s i. 136 A . A t Pr c p l o er o , ork , , pp ; y ler, e o r f e ,

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every sort and afterwards procured carriages for bringing w them to town , where he attended them ith the greatest At ni hi assiduity and care . the same time his huma ty led m u to give assistance to many of the wo nded rebels , who from r thei wounds had become objects of compassion, even though hi engaged in a cause w ch he did not approve of . The same i li human ty led him , after the rebel on, to represent to govern ment the assistance he had got from some of the rebel oflic ers in procuring provisions and necessaries for the wounded fi ’ of cers and soldiers in his Majesty s service on that occasion, hi ’ w ch contributed to procure their pardon . He exerted hi if Ar hi mself to save the l e of his old pupil, Dr. c bald ur 1 753— Cameron, who was executed at Tyb n in the last ’ victim of the 4 5 . his i l With abil ty and energy he combined other qua ities , ll which go to make the character of a rea y great man . Bower

speaks of his unaffected modesty, the absence of professional e jealousy, and the court sy and sympathy which endeared 1 ll him to his students . His pupil, Dr . John Fothergi , spoke of him as ‘ justly denominated the Father of the College 3 3 li : As i and Smel e says he felt strongly for d stress , he was liberal to the poor, but as he hated ostentation , his charity was always privately bestowed . He was a sincere and l i steady friend, and a most cheerfu and agreeable compan on , censure and detraction being almost the only subjects in ’ which he could bear no part . ff His home life was cons picuously happy . His a ectionate r care of his father has been al eady noted, and his son Donald says of his family : All that a child can owe to the best of fathers , a pupil to his tutor, or a man to his friend, they owed r to him . In thei youth he not only superintended their education, but was himself their master in several branches

1 is o th e niv si 11 . 191 . H tory f U er ty, 3 A oun o J hn F h i M D . . Lettsom vn. cc t f o ot erg ll, . , J. C , p. 3 Edinbu h R vi w a nd M a a in 1 773 i. 343 . rg e e g z e, , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US ) 75

and when they grew up he made them his companions and ’ friends . His portrait by Allan Ramsay the younger hangs in ’ Surgeons Hall, and was engraved by Basire as a frontispiece to the Collected Works which his son Alexander published n in Lavater, the physiognomist, was show the n n engravi g without bei g told whom it represented, and i pronounced the follow ng character, a wonderful tribute 3 to the accuracy of his science A i — good, gentle and peaceable character, of a sangu ne phlegmatic temperament . Goodness is depicted in his eyes : the mouth breathes only peace ; and an amiable

serenity is diffused over the whole countenance . This man is incapable of giving offence to any one ; and who could ever suffer himself designedly to offend him He loves

l . tranqui lity, order, and simple elegance He takes a clear view of the object he examines ; he thinks accurately ; his ideas and his reasonings are always equally well followed a ll up his mind rejects that is false and obscure . He gives

with a liberal hand, he forgives with a generous heart, and

- takes delight in serving his fellow creatures . You may

safely depend on what he says , or what he promises . His sensibility never degenerates into weakness ; he esteems

find . diff worth, it where he may He is not in erent to the pleasures of life ; but suffers not himself to be enervated by l them . This is not what is usua ly denominated a great — — man [Lavater is surely wrong here but he possesses a much more exalted character he is the honour of humanity,

his k . and of ran in life Respectable personage, I know you — not ; I am entirely in the dark concerning you but you shall not escape me in the great day which shall collect us all r di r fi together ; and you form, sengaged and pu i ed from all l earthly imperfection, shal appear to me, and strike my ’ ravished eye in the midst of myriads .

1 3 ’ s b 2 M edica n. 1 51 . Edinbu h Adv i N v m 22 178 . u hins n s Bio ra hia rg ert er, o e er , H tc o g p , 76 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US )

The bus t in the University Library bears the following inscription

ALEX AN D RI MONR O PRIM I Ana tom ia e per annos X L Professoris m eritissim i

Florentissim a e Sch ola e Medicina e

in h a o Ac a d emia

Cond itoris D iscipuli quid a m j a m c onsenescentes Et plures Filii et N epotis ipsius D iscipulorum D iscipuli Sum mi Viri Mem oria m venera ti h a nc ejus Im a ginem sta tuerunt Ann o o t bi p s O tum xnv .

A . D . 1 812

Dr . Donald Monro prefixed to the C ollected Works the short memoir which has been already quoted . He describes l r his father as a man of muscu ar make , of middle statu e, and possessed of great strength and activity of body ; but subject for many years to a spitting of blood on catching i the least cold, and through his whole l fe to frequent inflammatory fevers ; which he used to attribute to the his too great care parents took of him in his youth, and to wi their having had him regularly blooded t ce a year, which in those days was looked upon as a great preservative of ’ health . In the year 1 762 he had an attack of influenz a ; soo n e ll aft r symptoms of cancer appeared, and from May 1 766 ti fi his death a year later he was con ned to the house . This long and painful disorder he suffered with the fortitude of h i a man and the resignation of a C ristian, never once rep ning at his fate ; but conscious of having acted an upright part and of having spent his life in the constant exercise of his k his duty, he viewed death without horror, and tal ed of own dissolution with the same calmness and ease as if he were ’ going to sleep . PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (P RIM US ) 77

di his in l 1 1 6 He ed at house Covenant Close on Ju y 0, 7 7, and r was bu ied in Greyfriars Churchyard . if n r 3 His w e, whom he married at Edi bu gh on January , 1 725 ir , was Isabella, third daughter of S Donald Macdonald u 1 694 of Sleat, fo rth Baronet. She was born in , and was n therefore three years his senior . Little or nothing is k own

ur ll 10 1 774 . of her, except that she s vived ti December , l u — h They had eight children, but on y four grew p t ree h Al S ecundus i sons , Jo n, Donald, and exander ( ) , who w ll be dealt with later, and a daughter Margaret, who married on 24 1 5 l November , 7 7 , James Philp of Green aw, advocate, f r Judge o the High Court of Admi alty. She died without A 30 1802 issue on pril , , and her husband predeceased her on

1 1 782 - dr May , aged sixty six . Two of the other chil en who nf 3 1 29 1 died in i ancy were Jean, born June , 7 , died May , 1 31 7 26 1 3 . , and Mary, born June , 7 0 CHAPTER VI

SIR D ONALD MACDONALD OF SLEAT

THE Macdonalds of Sleat were a powerful family settled at the south end of the island of Skye , and after the death in 1498 of John, last Lord of the Isles , the head of the family became —one of the three claimants for the chieftainship of the clan a dispute still unsettled . A Sir Donald, fourth Baronet, the father of Mrs . lexander a nd Monro , was the eldest son of Sir Donald, third Baronet,

Lady Mary Douglas , younger daughter of Robert , seventh e Earl of Morton . He was a prominent Jacobit , and was SIR DONALD MACDONALD 79 known among his countrymen as D omh null a Choga idh ’ At f or Donald of the Wars . the Revolution, his ather fi 5 of s being still alive, he took the eld with 00 his clan men to join Claverhouse , and conspicuous in a red coat com m a nd ed a battalion on the left of the line at Killiecrankie . five of He lost near relatives in the battle , and by Order the 3 1 690 1 Privy Council on January , the rents of the Sleat property were sequest rated . He succeeded to the baronetcy of hi 5 1 5 s 69 . on the death father on February , Gra meid The , a metrical account of the rising, contains Sir n 3 the following passage relating to Donald, the you ger

P a rte a ia m a ni D ona ld i c a ra ro a o l g l p p g , Et entis P rince s et R e ulus Aebud a rum g p g , E re ius be lo et florentibus nsu er ann s g g l , i p i , Orb s a b ex trem s terra rum Sla tius or s i i i , Acer in a rm a ru t secum ue in bel a furent es i , q l Aere ciet uvenes uin entos ensibus o es j q g , mn Cominus a rm a tos ri id is ue ha stilibus omnes , g q , ’ I u a os on s tra nsm isit Sk a ca r i ns l qu l gi y in s .

Which being translated is : At another point the noble hi f of scion of great Donald of Sleat, c e the clan and Lord his f of the Isles, illustrious in war beyond youth ul years , ’ u r shes eager to battle from the world s uttermost shores , and with the trumpet- call summons with him to the fight

500 warriors , all armed with swords hand to hand and with stout spears , warriors whom the Isle of Skye has sent across ’ in their long boats . Drummond of B a lh a ldy describes Sir Donald 3 as con ducting all his actions by the strictest rules of religion and l his cla n his mora ity. He looked upon as children, and upon the King as the father of his country ; and as he was possessed of a very Opulent fortune, handed down to him

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r r i by a long race of ve y noble ancesto s , so he l ved in the f ’ greatest a fluence, but with a wise economy . In the early years of the eighteenth century Sir Donald lived for the most part in Glasgow. During a great flood 23 1 1 2 five on September , 7 fathom of his Lodging at least u ll is nder Water, but I hope there wi be no Fear, the House ’ 1 3 ea being strong and Story high . He was a s th old er in the Laigh or Tron Kirk . He came out again in the 1 71 5 at the head of his clan u 700 strong, and put himself nder the command of the Earl 3 r of Seafo th . He afterwards joined the Earl of Mar at Perth , but before the King’ s troops arrived he had a stroke of H paralysis and was carried home to Skye in a litter. is brothers James and William commanded the clan at the Sh eriffm uir 1 3 r battle of on November , thei men forming ’ nk part of the Highlanders right fla , which delivered the in i h first attack, and a few m nutes t rew the government

n nf . ul troops i to co usion The inconclusive res t of the battle, combined with the news of the defeat at Preston and the di departure of the Old Chevalier to France, sheartened the 1 71 6 Highlanders, and at the beginning of the Macdonalds returned home . Sir Donald himself retired to the island of ’ Uist when the King s troops were sent to Skye . Act A 3 unl He was included in the of ttainder, ess he 3 1 1 6 surrendered in person before June 0, 7 . He wrote to d A ff his i 4 Lord Ca ogan in pril o ering subm ssion, and was ordered to come to Fort William , but by this time his health was so bad that he could not make the journey, and asked to u U be excused . In J ne he crossed from ist to his own house ulm l at D unt at the north end of Skye , where he stayed til the middle of September, and was then carried by stages to his ’ brother s house at Knock near the south of the island .

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82 SIR DONALD MACDONALD

H i dr nl l is widow and ch l en were left portio ess, but Par ia in ment, on her petition, gave the K g power to allow the daughters’ provisions to remain secured on the estates in 1 n e spite of the attainder. They amou t d to about £400

sterling each . Lady Macdonald afterwards married Alexander Mac hr 3 donald of Boisdale , and had two sons and t ee daughters . Th e arms of Macdonald of Sleat are recorded in the r 1 663 manusc ipt of Stacie , who was Ross Herald from to 3 1 68 —first a r ent ules or 7 , g , a lion rampant g armed ; second, a zure rO er i a tée sa ble , a hand p p hold ng a cross p of calvary ; vert ermine c a rs sa ble third, , a ship , her in saltire in water w vert ur ent proper ; fourth, parted per fess avy and g a salmon : : naiant crest, a hand holding a dagger proper supporters , ’

: . two leopards proper motto , My hope is constant in thee

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No. 1 807. CHAPTER VII

OHN MO RO OF AU HINBOWIE ADVOCATE J N C ,

A P rimus HN N R . JO MO O , eldest son of Dr lexander Monro ( ) ,

5 1 725 . was born on November , He received his early ’ M d ll s u education at Mr. un e school in Edinb rgh, and was i ul 24 1 753 adm tted an advocate on J y , at the age of twenty 1 2 1 1 758 seven. He had a fair practice , and on January , he was appointed Procurator Fiscal or Crown Prosecutor in the High Court of Admiralty on the nomination of the

his - in- hi Judge , brother law James P lp , and on several occa ’ sions in 1 762 during the Judge s absence he filled his place 1 6 1 6 on the bench . From 7 0 to 7 9 he was one of the group of advocates who reported and published the decisions of the

Court of Session . He was a member of the Select Society . l 8 1 57 On Ju y , 7 he married Sophia, daughter of the Ar l A dl hi deceased chibald Ing is of uchindinny, Mi ot an, and

La n b res i c c - g y , Lanarksh re, the eldest of three heiresses , and his him Auchinbowie father made over to the estate of , n hi n 1 2 reservi g to mself an a nuity of 00 merks, which was not to run until the annuity payable to Mrs. Alexander ’

r . Mon o, his cousin s widow, had lapsed At fi Mr Mr . w . rst . and s John Monro lived ith old Mrs Inglis and her other two daughters at a small house in Milne’ s ur L a k t Co t on the north side of the a wnm r e , but he soon had to move the whole establishment to a larger house at the r hi C oss, and latterly s town house was the second flat of a tenement on the south side of the La wnm a rk et between

1 M is n Dic i na o D isi ns 7289 7612 7637 13435 13530 14272 . or o , t o ry f ec o , , , , , , 83 84 JOHN MONRO OF AUCHINBOWIE

’ ’ 1 Gosford s Libberton s . hi hi Close and Wynd T s house, w ch ’ n fire - - contai ed eleven rooms and two outer rooms , was bought by his father in 1 730 and was mad e over to him in At his death it was valued at £600 ; and at that time he also owned a house in Covenant Close—no doubt ’ — £25 his father s old house worth 0, a shop and warehouse £360 ’ worth , and Lady Mary Carnegie s house worth A 2 1 1 5 John Monro lost his wife on pril , 77 at the early

- age of thirty four . La n b res 1 78 di He forced a sale of g y in 0, and a vision of A hi nn 1 78 1 uc ndi y in , and received as his share in right of

- his wife the mansion house and ground round it, which he f r o £35 10 R . N . at once sold to Captain John Inglis , , who r c o was married to Ba bara, the youngest of the three heiresses .

He had two daughters , Jane and Isabella, but the dates r n of their bi ths can ot be discovered . It is to be noticed that r — each of the three brothers Mon o John, Donald, and Al — exander had a daughter Isabella, named of course after her grandmother .

di 24 1 789 of - He ed on Sunday May , at the age sixty three , Auchinbowie i be and as he had made no will , was d vided tween the two daughters after an arbitration before the

- r k Solicitor General, Robert Blai ; Jane , as the elder, ta ing

- - i the mansion house and the north west half , wh ch is now di - vided into two farms, and Isabella the south east half of the property . The rental of each share was calculated to be £2 7 hn r ns 0 , but as Jo Mon o had left co iderable debts, there was a bond for £2000 placed on each half .

JAN E MON R o had married at Auchinbowie on November

2 1 1 785 Ar a t th i . , George Home of g y, near Doune , Per sh re

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THE HOMES OF ARGATY 85

She was his second wife , but her predecessor, Mary Erskine of n u Rollo , daughter James Paterson of Ban ockb rn, left no

George Home was really a Stewart, as his grandmother, Hoom Ar a t t Mary e or Home of g y, had married George S ewart 1 B a lloch a lla n of , and had several sons , two of whom succeeded 3 in Ar a t — 1 768 turn to g y, David, who entailed the estate in di 9 1 774 and ed without issue on November , , and George ,

A i . . who had settled as a doctor at nnapol s, Maryland Dr Ar a t 13 1 784 George Home Stewart died at g y on June , in

- his seventy seventh year, and was succeeded by his eldest ’ son, George , Jane Monro s husband, who dropped the sur name of Stewart . 5 1 787 l George Home died on October , , leaving an on y

l A 5 of . chi d, Sophia, born ugust that year She was married di A 9 18 3 ’ fi at E nburgh on ugust , 0 to her mother s rst cousin,

r n Softla w u . David Mon o Bin ing of , yo nger son of Dr Al S ecundus exander Monro ( ) , and died at Madeira on 29 1 8 6 May , 0 at the age of eighteen , having had two sons , l 3 who wi l be mentioned later in connection with their father . nr Mrs Jane Mo o ( . Home) survived her daughter for nearly 1 6 thirty years , and died at Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh , 26 1835 on December , , when she must have been about ’ ’ - 4 . H seventy seven years of age Gram , or Lady ome, as she was called, was an old lady of great force of character. At the time of the French invasion scare she raised a troop of

- in- Yeomanry among her tenants and neighbours, her son law being captain , and she marched with them to a review in

Edinburgh . u Her pict re hangs at Auchinbowie .

SAB ELLA MON R o Auchinbowie Her sister, I , married at

1 u a n De mb 20 a nd Co r t, ce er 3 Di i na 4 M is n 649 a m b l S ssi n a s Ad v. b. Li lxv. 72 . , ct o ry, ; C p el , e o P p er ( 8 1 or o a edonia n M u anuar C l erc ry, J y 86 THE LOWISES OF PLEAN

on a 23 1 789 R . N . Febru ry , Captain Ninian Lowis , , of the Woodcote n P East I diaman, and laird of West lean, the adjoining property to the east . Mrs . Lowis died on A u 31 1814 28 i u ug st , at George Square , Ed nb rgh , and Captain

wi di 27 1 825 . r Lo s ed on March , Thei family consisted of 1 three sons and four daughters .

1 . 1 Robert , the eldest son, married ( ) Margaret, daughter of David Hunter, stockbroker, London, and sister of the

. Al r T ertius 2 second Mrs exander Mon o ( ) ; ( ) Helen, daughter of Adam Maitland of Dundrennan and sister of Lord Dun

3 . . drennan, the judge ; ( ) Jane Liston He had no family He ’

in 1 856 . C u r . died , and was buried at St thbert s , Edinbu gh

2 . h 1801 Jo n, born in , was in the Bengal Civil Service, ’ u in and rose to a seat on the Viceroy s Co ncil . He married 1823 i Lou sa, daughter of John Fendall of the Bengal Civil

five five . Service, and had sons and daughters

3 . ni 1 802 t Ni an, born in , married Jane, daugh er of Colonel hi Reynolds of the Bengal Army. He and s wife and family were lost at sea in 1838 . i n A n Of the daughters three d ed u married, and n e married

Werm elskirk is . the Rev. George , with sue

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A 88 DR . DON LD MONRO

His principal publications were : Observa tions on the M ea ns o reservin the Hea lth o S oldiers 1 78 f p g f , 0, and a treatise M edica l a nd P ha rma ceutica l h in 4 vols . on C emistry a nd

a M edica 1 788 . M a teri , He also contributed articles to the E ssa s P h sica l a nd Litera r wr Edinburgh y y y, and ote a memoir ’ of his father for the collected edition of the latter s works i 1 82 his broth er S ecundus publ shed in 7 by / ( ) . r Dr . Donald Mon o is said to have been a man of varied n l attai ments and of considerable ski l in his profession, and ’

. 1 86 was highly esteemed by his contemporaries In 7 ,

ill- ffi having long been in health , he resigned his o ce at St . ’ hi George s Hospital, and withdrew mself altogether from

practice and in great measure from society. H i A u 9 1 8 2 e d ed at rgyle Street , London, on J ne , 0 aged

- 1 seventy four. A 29 1 2 ’ 7 . He had married on ugust , 7 , at St James s Picca

ill n - in- d y, Dorothea Maria Hei eken, a German Lady waiting vi h to Queen Ch arlotte , who sur ved him . T ey had an only i 3 ch ld, Isabella Margaret , who married Colonel John Scott , n third son of John Scott of Gala, and you ger brother of the Colonel Hugh Scott who married her first A . S ecun cousin Isabella, daughter of Dr lexander Monro ( dus) . hr : 1 Colonel and Mrs . John Scott had t ee daughters ( ) Maria Ma k d ou a ll Georgiana, who took the name of g on succeeding Ma k erstoun un to the estate of , Roxburghshire , and died 2 married ; ( ) Lisette , who married William Gregory, Professor mi i f 3 of Che stry at Ed nburgh, and le t one son ; ( ) Isabella, who died unmarried . 1822 Colonel John Scott died in , and his wife died at the

28 1 814 . Cape of Good Hope on June ,

1 ’ G n ma n s Ma a zin 1 802 . 687 1772 . 439. e tle g e, , p , p ’ 3 R is K n n £0 1 60 a iv u t a nt bu e . 5 . Prerog t e Co r of C er ry, eg t r e yo ,

90 PROFESSOR ALEXAN DER MONRO (SEC UND US) which he had been very much indebted to the excellent ’ 1 discipline of his mother . In the session 1 753- 4 his father found his class too la rge

- l di i for the lecture room, and was compel ed to v de it and to repeat his lecture in the evening . He soon found the ta sk ll i too heavy , and tried the experiment of a ow ng his son to

ni . As ul take the eve ng class the res t was most satisfactory, he presented a petition to the Town Council at the close of the i session, ask ng that his son might be formally appointed his n 1 9 colleague and successor . The prayer was granted on Ju e , 4 S ecundus 1 75 , and was admitted conjunct professor on 2

in n The narrative of the Town Council m ute is i teresting, and the opening a rgum entum a d crum ena m is not without 3 guile . Anent the petition and representation given in by Al r A Uni exander Mon o, professor of natomy in the versity of

Edinburgh, setting forth, that the advantages of the schools h sio r n of p y to Edinbu gh are now generally k own ; for, besides n l the youth bei g we l educated, ten thousand pounds sterling

at least are spent yearly by the students of that science, of whom there have been more than two hundred for many i years past at Edinburgh . The foundation upon wh ch the h sio hi other branches of p y must be built is the anatomy, w ch ,

therefore , ought to be taught diligently by a master equal A to the task . The present professor of natomy is allowed to i i have been dil gent, and to have contributed to the establ sh fi ment of the medical schools , being the rst who began to

- five teach regularly, has continued thirty years to do so ,

and is willing to teach while he has strength . But his business r s requi ing great labour, in the course of nature he mu t become

unable to undergo it in no great number of years . In the

prospect of this , and with a view of supporting the character

1 3 M m i b M n T ius . i1i. Edinb u h u a n ul 15 1754 . e o r, y o ro ( ert ) , p rg Co r t, J y , 3 2 - B w is o o the niv si ii. 369 7 o er, H t ry f U er ty, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US ) 91

h sio his of the schools of p y , the petitioner thought it duty to his fit i represent to honourable patrons , that a person for th s ffi ull o ce ought to be otherwise a good scholar, to be f y master his i in of business , by being early nitiated it, with elocution , or an easy way of conveying his knowledge to others : Th at the acquisition of so much knowledge of an extensive science as a teacher ought to have , cannot be obtained without some f neglect of the other branches ; and, there ore , a prospect of suitable advantage from that one branch must be given, to induce any person to bestow more time and pains on it than on others That the professor must attribute his early u success at least to the ass rance he had, when very young, and a student, that he was soon to be put into his present

ffi hi ul . o ce, w ch made him apply more partic arly to anatomy ’ That the professor s youngest son has appeared to his ifi neces father, for some years past, to have the qual cations for sary a teacher ; and this winter he has given proof, by nl di n not o y ssecti g all the course for his father, but by pre lecting in most of it That he is already equal to the office for testimony of which it is entreated that inquiry might be made at the numerous students who were present at his lectures and demonstrations . It was therefore hoped the Honourable Magistrates and Council would appoint the young man his father’ s colleague and successor in their U i ur niversity, as not only the surest way of hav ng the labo i i of an old servant the longer continued, but l kewise of hav ng

h sio l . an absolutely necessary branch of p y wel taught That, if of the desire the petition was granted, the education of the i young professor should be directed, w th a view to that l r . u business , under the best masters in Eu ope He sho d ’ have all his father s papers , books , instruments , and pre a ra tions p , with all the assistance his father can give in teach fit ’ ing , while he is for labour . The petition was accompanied by certificates of proficiency from the professors of Latin, Greek, philosophy and mathe 92 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US )

o i matl s as well as from the med cal faculty, and also by testi monials from a great number of students who had attended his lectures and demonstrations . Monro (S ecundus) took h is degree as Doctor of Medicine 20 1 755 : d on October , his thesis was de icated to his father 1 uum u d ebea in the following terms Q nemo sit, cui pl s m , c a ri orem h a bea m a em ulari aut placere malim, quem , aut rae t lerim ui a d ula tione e ea t observa ntia m p u , q minus g , magis m erea tur : P ra ece tor tibi, Pater, p Optime , Filius, Discipulus, Studiorum Aem ulus Dissert a tionem h a ncce , , animi monu ’

dic a tum a cci ia s rec or. mentum grati , p p In fulfilment of his father’ s promise he then proceeded

his . to studies abroad He spent a short time in London, ll where he attended the lectures of Dr . Wi iam Hunter ; but his chief object in staying there was to make acquaintance

di . with various me cal men of note He next visited Paris, 1 1 75 U and on September 7, 7 entered Leyden niversity, where he formed a warm friendship with the two famous i fri u Al S e ed s . anatomists , Bernardus g binus and Petrus Camper But his foreign studies were principally prosecuted at e Berlin, where he worked under the celebrat d Professor

Meckel, in whose house he lived ; and in after years he never him let a session pass without acknowledging his debt to . He spent some time in Edinburgh during the early months 1 5 fill of 7 7 in order to the place of his father, who was con fined to the house by illness ; and he finally returned from

Berlin in the early summer of 1 758 . He was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

2 1 58 1 1 759. on May , 7 , and a Fellow on May , His father delivered the opening lectures of the 1 758 - 9

r . Th e cou se, and then handed over the work to his son young professor made a dramatic beginning by attacking ’ his Leeuwenhoek s theory of the blood, which father had taught .

1 dr D a Dr. An w un n a v ia n O a i n . 15 . e c , H r e r t o p

94 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US ) manner of delivery : he particularly avoids that familiarity which too many of the Professors are apt to fall into in their lectures, and which seems to degrade their dignity by giving ’ them the air of common conversation. nl A The o y discordant note is struck by Sir stley Cooper, f i u the amous London surgeon, who visited Ed nb rgh as a 1 n 1 787- 8 you g man in , and recorded his impressions Old

nr . Mo o grunted like a pig He was a tolerable lecturer, possessed a full knowledge of his subject, had much sagacity in practice, was laudably zealous , but was much given to ’ self and to the abuse of others . The next sentence throws light on this criticism : Cooper s had produced two surgical in truments , which he claimed to have invented, but the Professor showed that he had already used Similar ones . The originality of his discoveries was a point upon which Monro was undoubtedly sensitive ; on the other hand it is to be noted that in after- years Cooper dedicate d one of his works to Monro in laudatory terms . 3 As T ertius to his lecturing says He never used notes, d and indeed possessed for many years hea s only of his lectures . of e his In consequence the great ext nt of his memory, and intimate acquaintance with the varied subjects of which he

treated, and probably also from the very rapid advance

ment he made , at the very outset of his career, as a physician u ur wr and cons lting s geon, he never had had leisure to ite n fif u out fully any one lecture . Duri g teen years he lect red hi from heads of his lectures , the arrangement of w ch he dl i fi repeate y altered, perspicuity be ng his rst and great i object of attainment . He was at length relieved from th s h u embarrassment by purchasing from Mr . Jo n Thorb rn,

l 1 5 . who became his pupi in 77 , a copy of his own lectures k He was totally devoid of conceit, and unli e many professors l did who have lectured for nearly ha f a century, not remain satisfied with the lectures he had written at the beginning

1 3 M m i viii. Li o Sir As B . B. 1. 17 1 . fe f tley Cooper, Cooper, e o r, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (S E C UN D US ) 95

of his career. On the contrary he was in the constant habit ’ 1 of altering and improving them . Bower says that he constantly employed his mechanical 3 genius in inventing and improving surgical instruments . l Dr. James Gregory, his col eague as professor and as 3 : i i practitioner, wrote His l fe was d stinguished by no striking event—it was chequered by no vicissitudes of good vi : if and e l it was a l e, from early youth to extreme old age ,

ni . of almost uniform and u nterrupted prosperity Nay, he seems scarce to have felt any of those diffi culties and dis c oura em ents g in his splendid career, which most men of i l terary professions , but especially physicians , experience in their laborious progress to the highest honours and rewards to which they can aspire ; and certainly his progress never ’ was retarded by any such adverse circumstances . For forty years he discharged unaided the work of the professorship , which covered surgery as well as anatomy in 1 798 he secured the appointment of his son Alexander T ertius 1 800 ( ) as his colleague, and after he used to open fi the course and leave his son to nish it . Quite early in his career an agitation for a separate chair ur of S gery began to gain ground , and was supported by the f 4 f Incorporation o Surgeons . It was elt that the subject could not be adequately treated as a mere appendage to l r f anatomy, especial y as Mon o himsel was bound as a member of the College of Physicians to confine himself to medical 5 practice . In point of fact he regularly performed minor nl k operations , but u i e his father undertook no clinical ul lectures , which wo d bring him into touch with recent surgery.

Mr . James Rae , who was appointed by the Managers in

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hn Th m s n 1 826 . Jo o o , 5 S ish niv si i s mmissi n Evid nc ublish d 1837 . 274. cott U er t e Co o , e e, p e , p 96 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US)

1766 to be one of the four substitute or assistant surgeons ’ nfir ur r of the I mary, began a co se of lectu es at Surgeons H l e al on syst matic surgery, and three years later, at the request of the students, backed by the Incorporation, he obtained the leave of the Infirmary Managers to give a a clinical course . He conducted both cl sses for several 1 777 years , and in May induced the Royal College of Surgeons (as the Incorporation had by this time become) to frame a petition to the Crown for the creation of a professorship of e Uni Surg ry in the versity, and to suggest himself as a suit 1 able nominee . undus S ec had felt the coming storm, and had taken u measures in defence . The S rgeons promptly got an ans wer from Lord Advocate Henry Dundas to the effect that it i is not in his power to interfere in behalf of this appl cation, as he has many months since received a letter from the Principal and medical Professors of the University requesting l that, if an application shou d be made for the creation of a r l professorship of Su gery in Edinburgh, he wou d represent ’ ni Uni to His Majesty s ministers that, in the opi on of the di versity, and particularly of the me cal part , the creation of ’ ul such a professorship was useless , and wo d be very improper. In opposing this necessary reform it does not appear that Monro was actuated by any higher motive than a jealous n fl regard for his own dig ity, but his personal in uence gave ’ him the victory. He carried the war into the enemy s country by applying to the Town Council for a new com mission expressly bearing him to be Professor of Surgery as well as of An atomy ; this having only been implied in his n former commission . The magistrates bei g highly sensible r ul of the great merit of Dr. Mon o and the sing ar use he has been of to this University unanimously granted his request ul 16 1 777 on J y , , but they admitted the principle of the reformers’ case by inserting a clause which reserved right to

1 Edinbu h Ana mi a S h Sir hn S u h s . 86 87 . rg to c l c ool, Jo tr t er , pp ,

98 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SEC UN D US ) The association of dissection with crime thus brought it ul di l into pop ar o um, and made pub ic institutions and private ul il in persons , having lawf possession of bodies, unw l g to part

with them for this purpose , even if it had not been illegal for

them to do so . Not merely was it illegal in itself to buy fi or sell a body even for scienti c purposes, but where there

was any suspicion of crime , the possessor of the body was r presumed to have been conce ned in the crime . Under these circumstances there was no Option for teachers and students of anatomy but to have clandestine resort to ’ - n the resurrection men, crimi als of the lowest type, who carried on a regular trade of exhuming bodies with the connivance of the graveyard authorities . The high price ’ £10 paid for subjects, averaging about , also called into existence a brisk import trade mainly from London and

Ireland, the bodies being smuggled into Edinburgh under various devices to elude the revenue authorities . Sir Astley Cooper said in his evidence before the Select Committee of 1 828 with reference to these revolting practices It is distressing to men of education and character to be compelled to resort , for their means of teach inf ing , to a constant raction of the laws, and to be made dependent for their professional existence on the mercenary in ’ 1 caprices of the most abandoned class the community. . Th e popular attitude towards anatomy is reflected in ’ Burns s lines

’ Cr cs a a ll d I en ure on th e a me iti pp v t n ,

Those cut - hroa t ba ndits in the a hs of fa me t p t , B ood d ssec ors orse h a n ten Monros l y i t , w t H h a ck s to e ch he m an e t ex e e a o os . t , t y gl p

The lectures seem to have been semi - public : Lord Brougham and Lord Campbell both mention having attended them ; and the story is told of a small boy who had made

1 3 ’ R o . 18. The s ss 1789. ep rt, p Poet Progre , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US ) 99 his way in while the body of an old woman was being dis ’ oo nl : E s s ted, and sudde y cried out y, it granny ; I ken ’ her by her taes . In spite of competition the attendance of regular students di i stea ly ncreased. In a document deposited in a bottle below the foundation stone of the new anatomical theatre the Professor stated that from 1 759 to 1 790 8369 students 1 r had attended his lectu es , and gave the yearly averages

l : 1 61 - 0 1 94 1 1 - 80 for the decennial periods as fol ows 7 7 , 77

- - 28 1 2 1 1 . 81 9 4 . 1 91 800 3 3 7, 7 0 3 For 7 the average was

- 1 783 The high water mark was reached in , when the class 436 403 numbered ; the following year it was , but it never 4 again exceeded 00 . 3 In October 1807 he drew up a memorandum stating that

students had passed through his hands, of whom

5831 - fifth s f , or nearly two , came rom England, Ireland, or foreign countries . ’ £15 £50 1 8 The Professor s salary was raised from to in 79 , the additional £35 being charged upon the City’ s ale and beer ’ tax the students fees remained at three guineas . In 1 764 he had obtained leave to build a new theatre at £300 a cost of , which he himself advanced on an obligation 3 by the Town Council to repay the money by instalments . With the exception of the library it was at that time the only room in the University that had any degree of academical ’ decency . By 1 783 the class had increased so much that he had to 1‘ A get a gallery erected . few years later the new Uni i in versity build ngs Nicolson Street were begun, and on 3 1 1 790 March , Professor Monro laid the foundation stone

1 M di a m m n a i s x v 40. e c l Co e t r e , . 3 Anna ls o the a i h o Mu a 1 s in on Dr Th s. . 36 f P r f Col t , . o rr y, p . 3 Ba zo is o o Edinbu h niv si ii. 434 Edinbu h Adv is S mb l l, H t ry f rg U er ty, ; rg ert er, epte er 7 4 M a a in 17 4 1 1 1 6 S s z 6 . 518. . ; cot g e, , p M a a in S o s 1783 . 7 14 . c t g z e, , p 100 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SEC UN D US )

of the anatomical school and rooms, which were opened 2 by him at the beginning of the winter session of 1 79 . ’ Monro s writings were numerous : most of the early ones Essa s a nd Observa tions P h sica l were contributions to the y , y hl nd Litera r . a y, or controversial pamp ets He was a hard hi l S o tter, especial y if he detected any light upon his prof s

iona l . s reputation, as witness his controversies with Dr

An . William Hunter . other instance may be cited A l ill 1 95 certain Scottish nobleman fel in 7 , and was Good sir f attended by Dr . John of Largo , ather of the pro fossor who succeeded Monro ( T ertius) in the chair of An atomy. Good sir of Dr. for his own satisfaction wrote a full report the r fi case to Professor Mon o , who con rmed the diagnosis and ’ treatment . The patient s health improved, and he then ill went up to London, where he was taken again and con sulted r Sir Walter Fa quhar and Sir George Baker, who told him that he had not suffered at all from the complaint for ir Good s . which Dr . had treated him His lordship comm d sir c a ted . Goo this opinion to Dr , who then disclosed the ’ r i fact that he was backed by Dr . Mon o s adv ce, and Monro f himsel took up the cudgels . He wrote to the noble patient maintaining that the London physicians were not in a position i n him to judge of his prev ous ill ess , as they had not seen at fini the time , and he shes the letter thus It is plain that their assertion could have no proper nl ff foundation, u ess you were to suppose , as they a ect to do , ’ that they must possess a superiority of skill proportion d

to the size of the city they live in . If they really acted the

part I have heard they did , I cannot help regretting that it is not in the power of the King to bestow C a ndour along with ’ 1 a Title . In 1 783 Monro published his Observa tions on the S true ture a nd F unctions o the N ervous S ste f y m . This was a folio

- - volume illustrated with fifty five copper plate engravings .

1 r s nd n in ss s i Em itus- ss h hi n Co re po e ce po e s on of er Profe or Jo n C e e.

102 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US )

i ul had as colleagues in the Med cal Faculty C len, Black, the

Gregorys, the Rutherfords , the Homes, John and Charles

. n Hope, and Dr Duncan senior, he was ack owledged by all ’ as their head . n wa s ull i His emi ence f y recogn sed abroad, and he was n admitted a member of many learned societies , i cluding the A d i . ca emies of Paris, Madrid, Berl n and Moscow In the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh he was 1 770 1 7 1 1 72 1 8 elected Censor in and 7 , Secretary from 7 to 77 ,

1 779 1 78 1 - P 1 82 President from to , and Vice resident in 7 and 1 783 . He took the office of secretary jointly with David Hume in the Philosophical Society at its second resuscitation about 1 760 1 763 , and after Hume went to France in he acted as ui sole secretary for twenty years . The Society lang shed, although its meetings were never altogether discontinued, 1 68 r until in 7 Hen y Home, Lord Kames, was elected president and succeeded in stimulating renewed activity, one of the of E ssa s a nd Observa tions results of which was a third volume y , published in Monro as secretary was the responsible At 1 83 di . 7 e tor, and contributed three articles length in n the Society, adopti g a proposal of Principal Robertson, obtained incorporation by Royal Charter under the title ’ i u of The Royal Society of Ed nb rgh . Monro was elected i to the orig nal Council, and was one of the presidents of the 1 physical section in 790 he wrote three papers for volume iii . Tr of the a nsa ctions . A 20 1 77 1 On pril , he was elected an honorary member 3 of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh , which was 1 34 founded in 7 by students , and incorporated by Royal — Charter in 1 778 a distinct institution from the older Medical r P i 1 1 Society which Mon o ( r mus) helped to found in 73 . 24 1 794 P r On June , rofessor Mon o was asked by the

1 T t M m i s o Ka m s i. 184. y ler, e o r f e , 3 is o the R a M di a S i 1820. H tory f oy l e c l oc ety, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SEC UN D US ) 103

P ’ hysical Society, another students association, of which he was an honorary member , to lay the foundation stone of their ’ 1 Th e hall in Richmond Street , Hunter s Park . Society was 1 1 instituted in 77 , and had been recently incorporated by the Magistrates in 1 782 it was amalgamated with the

- 1 88 Chirurgo Medical Society, and in 7 it received a Royal

Charter . It was one of the features of the Society that half n of the debates were conducted in Lati , so as to prepare the members for their graduation trials . In 1 785 Professor Monro gave some anatomical specimens 3 to the Royal Society, towards a collection which was being formed in the College museum and was in 1 852 taken over by Government as part of the National Museum of Natural 1 800 History in Chambers Street . In he presented to the w University his private collection ith a descriptive catalogue, in compliance with a promise made so long before as December 19 , This was a valuable property at a time when it fi ul was very dif c t to obtain subjects , and Sir Charles Bell alleged that Monro was so jealous of his museum that a sight 4 of it could only be obtained by stratagem . The Professor took his share in the public life of his native place for instance he was one of the commissioners appointe d 5 Act 1 771 i by the of for cleansing, light ng and watching the ’ in i South Side of the City of Ed burgh, the earliest burgh pol ce statute introduced into Scotland . Notwithstanding his manifold exertions he remained fresh Af and active until he was well over seventy. ter delivering i r 1808 the open ng lectu e of the course he resigned his chair, n gave up private practice, and spent the remaining ni e years r of his life in reti ement .

1 Edinbu h Adv is un 25 1784 . rg ert er, J e , 3 Edinbu h u a n Au us 6 1785 . rg Co r t, g t , 3 D a lzel is or o the niv si , H t y f U er ty, 4 i h L o Sir ha s B . 22 1 . P c ot , ife f C rle ell, p 5 ca . 36 . 1 1 George 111 . p 104 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SEC UN D US )

1 As to his character his son says He was extremely economical in the arrangement of his time, and allotted to each hour its particular business and he worked very nearly as hard towards the decline as at the outset of life . r r Dr. Mon o was of a very cheerful tu n of mind , and fond of o f society, to the hilarity which he most essentially con tributed by the numerous anecdotes , which he took great delight in communicating . He lived at a time when the literature of Scotland had i his been raised to a high pitch of em nence by contemporaries, in i ’ with all of whom he lived habits of ntimacy . A n i . H Dr ndrew Du can, address ng the arveian Society, a v l club formed to unite experimental inquiry with convi ia ity, 3 : said No man could enjoy to a higher degree, or more suc essfull n c y lead others to enjoy, in ocent mirth over a social glass . This has often been demonstrated to most of you in the room in which we now meet . Without transgressing ff the bounds of the most strict sobriety, he a orded us demon ’ stra tive evidence of the exhilarating power of wine .

His chief pleasures were the theatre and his garden . He was a constant attendant at the play, both comedy and The tragedy. When Foote and his company were playing D evil u on Two S ticks p , he lent his own red gown to Westo n , ’ who was taking the part of Dr . Last . He once attended Mr s . professionally on Siddons , for whom he had a profound admiration, and he often told his friends that he was as much gratified and flattered by having her for his patient, as from fi giving advice to the rst nobility of the realm . His most f famous patient was Dr. Johnson, on whose behal Boswell in consulted him by letter March Dr . Monro sent a : I prescription, and added i most sincerely join you in sym th zin n e pa i g with that very worthy and inge ious charact r,

1 M m i 0 11 0 111. e o r, ,

3 - a v ia n O a i n or 1 818 . 30 4 . H r e r t o f , pp ’ 3 - B sw s hns n ed . Bi b i l 1887 iv. 263 4 o ell Jo o , rk eck H l , , .

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fif r Mr t . Sco s acres of arable land and ty of pastu e , to a Scott, s 1 whose family remained there for several generation .

Dr. Duncan, a brother gardener, often visited the place , 3 and says While he planted and bea utified some charm l i ff l ing y romantic h lls , which a orded him such delightfu

prospects of wood and water, hill and dale, city and cottage , l in as have seldom been equal ed, he enclosed the midst of his

- And plantations several acres with a proper garden wall . he dedicated to the more delicate plants every protection hi w ch glass , to a considerable extent , and well constructed

flues ul ff . l n , co d a ord By means of these , he cou d entertai i his friends with the most delicious fruits of every cl mate, ul particularly with melons and grapes, which co d not be

excelled in any quarter of the world . He had there indeed no splendid house in which that entertainment could be given to them . But he fitted up a u l t r ral cottage , consisting on y of two commodious apar ments , in i a djoining to the house of his head gardener, whose k tchen

a dinner could be dressed for a few select friends . He had n no bedchamber there , for he was determi ed, while he con n of in tinued in busi ess , never to sleep out his house Edin ’ burgh when he could easily avoid it . Cra i lockh a rt g carried a vote for the county, and in the 1 8 8 . confidential Whig report on the voters in 7 , Dr Monro is ’ 3 n n . 1 794 noted as bei g very i dependent In , during the

French invasion scare , he was on the Committee of Defence l 1 798 £30 for Mid othian, and in he subscribed 0 to the War

Fund . His earliest town house was the third story of Carmichael ’ s ’ Land fronting the La wnm a rk et next to Buchanan s Court ; fire i it consisted of eight rooms and a k tchen, perfectly ’ 4 1 766 free of smoak . In he moved to a new house on the

1 3 inbu h u a n Au ust 8 1 778. a v ia n O a i n or 1818 . 35 . Ed rg Co r t, g , H r e r t o f , p 3 Politica l Sta te of Scotla nd in 1 788 .

u h u a n N v mb 22 1766 A i 20 1 768. Edinb rg Co r t, o e er , ; pr l ,

MR ALEX A DER M NRO n S. N O (Secu dus)

(KAT H AR IN E m om s)

To a ce a f p ge 107.

108 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US ) David—and two daughters—Isabella and Charlotte—who

all lived to grow up , another son, the eldest of the family,

1 2 - 6 dying in infancy . David Inglis ( 70 7) was a younger n A son of John I glis of uchindinny, Writer to the Signet , f and his wife was Katharine , daughter of Charles Binning o 1 Pilm uir . , advocate

- . r 1 1 1 803 . Mrs Mon o died on May , aged sixty two Her

a , portrait by R eburn is in possession of Major George Monro , B els e and her miniature belongs to Mrs . Ferrier of yd .

l 1 3 1 78 Isabel a, the elder daughter, married on March , 7 26 h Hugh Scott of Gala, Selkirkshire, Captain in the t

- (Cameronian) Regiment, afterwards Lieutenant Colonel . He 4 1 795 n died at Grenada on October , leavi g a son, John ,

A 7 1 790 . . born ugust , Mrs Scott, who was a good musician,

2 7 1 801 . died at Slateford House on September ,

n Charlotte, the you ger daughter, who was born on March 1 1 82 10 1 808 i 7 7 , married on November , Lou s Henry Ferrier of

Bels d e nl . y , Li ithgowshire, advocate He had been a Lieutenant 94th in the Regiment (Scots Brigade) , and was Lieutenant

Colonel in the Linlithgowshire Yeomanry . He was appointed di 28 Collector of the Customs at Quebec , and ed on January ,

- A 2 1 22 1 833 fift . him on 6 8 . aged y six His wife predeceased pril , m l five hr They had a fa i y of sons and t ee daughters .

3 S ecundus : The Memoir of by his son concludes Dr. Monro was a kind husband and indulgent parent : and his ffi his good o ces were not limited to own family and relations . He was always ready to assist the poor with his purse and professional skill ; was a subscriber to all charitable institu tions ; and took an active share in the management of the fir Royal In mary. S ecundus l In person, Dr . Monro was about the midd e

1 - 3 h rs xiv xvi. o e Binnin a mi . See C a pte . n th g f ly P. cliii. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (S EC UN D US ) 109

l r a nd f . stature , of vigorous and athletic orm His shou de s were high and his neck short ; his head was large, and his

f f r . forehead ull . His eatu es were strongly marked He had i a prominent nose , projecting eyebrows , l ght blue eyes, rather intelli a large mouth, and a countenance expressive of much gence and study .

During his long life several portraits were taken of him .

h . T at of Mr Kay, who has represented him walking along r c ook ed the No th Bridge in a black dress and hat, conveys 1 A a very distinct impression of his face and figure . portrait

of . him , when a young man, was also taken by Mr Seton, k which has been esteemed a good li eness . The late Sir 2 u hi Mr. Henry Raeb rn painted the portrait from w ch J.

Heath engraved the annexed portrait, which is, in my mind, ’ u w a strong likeness . There is also a bust of him by an nkno n i n . sculptor in the Natio al Portrait Gallery, Ed nburgh m When y Father had reached his eightieth year, he used r to become ve y drowsy after dinner . He had also occasional l headache and s ight bleed ing at the nose . These symptoms r r were the preludes to an apoplectic seizu e, f om which , by f the unceasing attention of his friends Dr . Ruther ord and Mr . Bryce , he somewhat recovered . But the malady was not eradicated ; his weakness gradually increased ; and after the lapse of four years he died without suffering on the 2nd ’ 1 81 7 - fif h f of October in the eighty t year o his age .

He and his wife are buried at Greyfriars Churchyard .

A comparison between P rimus and S ecundus is almost n i S i evitable , as their l ves present so many points of imilarity . From boyhood each was marked out for his career by his fi father, each ful lled in the amplest degree the promise of

of ro- his youth, held for many years a position p eminence Uni f in the versity and the pro ession, and lived to see his fi P rim us son quali ed to take up his work . To belongs the

1 It wa s d ne in 1 790. B n in Ma M o elo g g to jor George onro . 1 10 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO (SE C UN D US ) credit of being the pioneer of a great and lasting work ; to S ecund us belongs the credit of not being in the least over ’ shadowed by his father s fame , but of actually surp assing nn r him as a scientist . It is u ecessa y, even if it were possible , to decide which of the two was the greater man ; fir S ecundus it is enough to af m th—at what was said of was equally true of P rim us h e left behind him magnum et ’ venerabile nomen .

P ROFESSOR ALEX AN DER MON RO ( Tertius)

T a e a 1 1 1 of c p ge . CHAPTER X

PROFESSOR ALEX AND ER MONRO (TERTI US )

ALE X AN D ER MON R O ( T ertius) was born at Edinburgh on

5 1 7 3 . November , 7 He was educated at the High School A l under the famous Dr . dam , and had as schoo fellows Lords

ff r . Brougham , Je rey and Cockbu n, and Sir Walter Scott Uni He was then sent to the versity, and graduated as Doctor

n 1 2 1 797 . of Medici e on September , He became a licentiate 5 of the Royal College of Physicians on November , and a

30 1 797 . Fellow on November , 24 1 98 On September , 7 his father petitioned the Town u un l Co ncil to appoint the yo g man his col eague and successor, taking as his model the petition which his own father had

- presented forty four years before . 1 : r He sets forth Dr . Mon o is very sensible that in conse o of quenc his own early appointment as assistant to his father, he devoted himself much more to the study and practice of r fi anatomy, and of cou se became much better quali ed to teach, w than he should have been ithout such a prospect before him . As yet his zeal for the improvement of this branch and his assiduity in teaching it are unabated ; but he daily becomes more and more sensible of the advantages the students would derive from his having conjoined with him a colleague more u capable of undertaking the laborious parts of his co rse , and of prosecuting inquiries and performing experiments for of the further improvement the science . He therefore H n le humbly petitions the o b . Patrons of the University that they will be pleased to nominate as colleague and successor

1 S u h s Edinbu h Ana mi a S h 34 tr t er , rg to c l c ool, p. . 1 1 2 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO ( TERTI US)

Al to him his eldest son exander, who is now nearly twenty n five years of age , and who , after havi g attended for eight u r u years past his co rses of lectu es, and, d ring that period, a ll the other medical classes repeatedly, and having received last year from this University the degree of Doctor of Medi n ci e , has since that had the advantage of attending the in anatomical and other medical classes London, and the H onble practice of the London Hospitals . If the . Patrons are pleased to appoint his son, it is his intention to return to London and afterwards prosecute the practice and study U i of anatomy in the most celebrated n versities of Europe , in order that nothing may be wanting to place the teaching of this branch on the most extensive and respectable footing . H le onb . P ns . Before presenting this petition to his atro , Dr Monro thought it a duty he owed to them as well as to his colleagues in the medical department to show his petition to them for their opinion, as their interests were deeply con u i observ cerned, and that they had had the best opport n ty of di fi ing the ligence and knowing the quali cations of his son, and he has the satisfaction to find that they unanimous ly n ’ approve of his petition and joi in the prayer of it . Although the Council had as recently as the previous March resolved that no professor should be elected until a vacancy occurred, they treated this as an exceptional occa n sion, and u animously granted the petition on November 14 1 98 , 7 ; and they made no reservation in the commission — of their right to separate anatomy from surgery a fact which afterwards came to be of importance . T ertius Monro ( ) completed his studies in London, where n he worked at surgery u der Wilson, and in Paris , where he stayed a short time ; and in 1 800 he took up his duties as r 1 802 assistant to his father . F om he conducted most of r 1 808 the course , and after the introductory lectu e of , the S ecund us last delivered by , he had sole charge of the class 1846 until his own retirement in .

1 14 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO ( TERTI US) ff said his manner betrayed an unimpassioned indi erence , as if it were all one to him whether his teaching was acceptable

and accepted or not . Yet he lacked neither ability nor in accomplishments . But apathy a teacher cannot stir up A enthusiasm in the student . lecturer who seldom shows himself in his dissecting- room will scarcely be looked up to A as an anatomist . professor careless about dress must lay his account with being made the subject of many a student’ s

joke . It is no wonder that with such weaknesses he lost

command of his class , which in his latter years became the u frequent scene of dist rbance and uproar. Nevertheless

Monro gave a very clear, precise , complete course of anatomy when I attended him [1 815] and certainly I learned anatomy ’ well under him . It is not surprising that extra - mural teachers arose and ’ r dl flou ished, and that the Professor s classes dwin ed . During his first decade the average was 262 ; twenty years later it 220 had dropped to , while the number of matriculated medical students had more than doubled, though it is fair to say that l f 1 matriculation was on y en orced strictly after 809. his Like father he gave no clinical instruction, but he P A 1 803 started a class of ractical natomy in . 1 2 ns In 18 the Town Council , in a wer to a representation s his u r by the Senatu , raised the class fees for lect res f om three to four guineas ; six shillings was also paid by each e student towards the maint nance of a doorkeeper, the clean

fi - ing and ring of the lecture room, and the expense of getting bodies and spirits for preserving them . His career as a professor was a constant struggle to main n tain his position, not so much agai st the competition of other te achers of anatomy as against the growing demand for the n A 1 8 fi i separate teachi g of surgery . fter 00 the of cial teach ng of surgery passed to him from his father, and the agitation 1 803 ini began anew . In a professorship of Cl cal Surgery l S ecundus was estab ished in spite of opposition from , and PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO ( TERTI US ) 1 15 next year the College of Surgeons instituted a chair of e l Uni Syst matic Surgery, which was continued unti the ver sit 1 806 y obtained its chair . In a professorship of Military

Surgery was founded in the University . The great abilities and infl uence of S ecundus being no longer in the scale, the last argument against this necessary T ertius reform was gone , but held his ground amid a war of r 1 826 pamphletee ing, until the appointment in of the ’ Scottish Universities Commission, which considered the teaching of surgery and pathology in its general survey of the i situation . The Town Council took the nitiative in February 1 82 7 by appointing a committee, which reported in the 1 following September : ( 1 ) That anatomy and surgery each e for afford ample mployment a separate professor, and that the conjunction of these two important branches must be ri ul of inju ous to the usef ness the teacher, the interests of

di . the student , and to the advancement of me cal science 2) That different qualifications are necessary for the successful of teaching these respective branches, more especially of surgery, the principles and practice of which can only be successfully ’ taught by one engaged in its exercise as a practitioner. The committee expressed doubt whether the Town ul ff Council co d e ect the separation at its own hand, as there f ’ was no reservation in the Pro essor s commission, and they t appointed a deputation to confer with him . A their meet ing Monro stated his opinion that the two subjects were so intimately connected that it would be improper to disjoin them , and that he had planned his course on the principle i of combining the r study, giving surgery a prominent plac in his lectures and demonstrations , for which purpose he had collected an extens ive and costly set of instruments moreover he considered that it would materially injure his character and interest as a professor if he consented to any separation of the two subjects .

1 A ix to R 1 19. ppend eport p. 1 1 6 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MONRO ( TERTI US)

H ni to wr e was asked to reduce his opi ons iting, but he 1 : ll wrote refusing to do so , and said You wi see from the commissions recorded in the Council books that I hold an unqualified commission a d vita m a ut culpa m as Professor of

Surgery as well as of Anatomy. Since my appointment I have given lectures on both these branches , and the number of my pupils has considerably increased for the last ten years . dl e [This seems har y accurat ] No one , I apprehend, can e be entitled to int rfere with , or dispose of the professor hi n s p , which I hold for life u der the commission which I

- un had the honour to receive from the town co cil , without my authority or consent ; and as such consent has never t yet been asked, it appears to be prema ure to enter upon the discussion of the question brought forward in the ’ r repo t . In his oral evidence before the Commission and in his observations on the scheme proposed by the Commissioners 3 be repeated these arguments and added a few more . He stated that he gave ninety- three lectures on anatomy and u seventy on s rgery, and that if surgery and pathology were disjoined he would be deprived of his most attractive sub ects ul ins i nifi j , and anatomy wo d be reduced to comparative g ’ diflicult Six r cance . It would be to occupy a months cou se

with anatomy alone, and it would be impossible to get a ffi su cient supply of bodies for dissection . The proposed di change would cost the students ad tional fees , and would r ul c es t in a reduplication of anatomical tea hing, as the Professor of Surgery would have to refer to the anatomy

of the various parts . 1 830 In October the Commission presented their report, which contains the following passage 3 Upon the necessity of a separate professor of Surgery

1 A r 120 . ppendix to Repo t p. 3 Evidenc . 27 1 299 A ndix . 269. e, pp , ; ppe , p 3 R . eport p 60.

1 1 8 PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MoN Ro ( TERTI US ) was passed putting schools of anatomy under government ns n i i pection, and permitti g recogn sed teachers and students to obtain bodies from the persons having lawful custody of hi them , provided the relatives did not object . T s made hospitals and similar institutions available as sources of fi supply, and the dif culty was solved . T ertius 1846 Monro ( ) resigned his chair in , and severed the long co—nnection of the family with the professorship of Anatomy a conn ection which had lasted one hundred and

- twenty six years . H e was a voluminous writer, his chief works being Outlines of the Ana tomy of the Huma n B ody in four volumes and E lem ents of Ana tomy in two volumes but they have not proved of permanent value .

He practised as a physician, and performed minor opera tions , but he never attained the position in the profession

hi . w ch his father had held He was , however, Secretary 1 809 1 8 19 of the Royal College of Physicians from to , and

President in 1 827 and 1 828 . He was also on the Council r of the Wernerian Natu al History Society, of which he became a member in 1 81 1 . He was elected a Fellow of the R 1 798 oyal Society of Edinburgh in , and at his death was father of the Society . fi 15 ’ His rst house was Nicolson Square , but on his mother s death he went to live with his father in St . Andrew Square . di o 1 2 1 When his father ed he m ved to George Street, and l 1832 Cra i lockh a rt remained there til , when he settled at g ,

- where he had built a mansion house . ’ He inherited his father s taste for gardening . He was l a so a good judge of pictures, and made a small collection

his . of own , chiefly of the Dutch school He was an excellent

classical scholar, and spoke Latin well . His portrait by an unknown artist hangs in the Surgeons’ H r him a s all, Edinbu gh ; another portrait of a young man

- n c by Raeburn, and a small water colour by Ken eth Ma leay

ALEX ANDER MON R0 T ius MRS . ( ert )

(MAR IA AGN ES CARM ICHAEL- SMYT H)

Tofa ce pa ge 1 19.

CHAPTER XI

- DR . JAMES CARMICHAEL SMY TH

’ D R AM ES ARMI AE L- M T his . J C CH S Y H was descended on father s 1 side from the Carmichaels of Balmedie . He was born on

23 1 42 nl . a February , 7 , the o y son of Dr Thomas Carmich el, and Margaret, eldest daughter and heiress of Dr. James Ath erne Aith ernie i Smyth of y or in F fe , and took the name hi ’ of Smyth in accordance with s grandf ather s will .

- n r Dr. Carmichael Smyth was an origi al pupil of Mon o

e undus . . i r (S c ) , and took his degree as M D of Ed nbu gh on

29 1 64 . H October , 7 e was President of the Royal Medical

- Af i 1 64 5 . r Society 7 ter gett ng further experience in F ance , 1 768 Italy and Holland, he settled in London in , and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians there on 25 1 775 to June , In he was appointed a physician H l the Middlesex ospital, and was elected a Fel ow of the

1 3 1 9. Royal Society on May , 77 He lived in Charlotte

Street, Bloomsbury. In 1 780 he was appointed by Government to take charge mi of the prison and hospital at Winchester, where an epide c of typhus fever was raging, and he employed nitrous acid as a As f r disinfectant with great success . a reward o his services he was appointed Physician- Extraordinary to the King and 2 Parliament voted him £1 00 . The motion was opposed in the House of Commons as a Scotch job , supported by ’ 3 a ll the Scotch members .

1 ’ S s a ed . Ba l ur a ul a rt . H ndford nt ibuted b E. G. M. cot Peer ge, fo P , y , co r y 2 Mun R o the R a e o h ns ii 38 . mi ha . si ia . 3 Ca r c el k , oll f oy l Coll ge f P y c , 3 Edinbu h Adv is Ma 29 1781 . rg ert er, y , 1 20 A A A - 1 2 1 DR . J MES C RMICH EL SMYTH In February 1 802 he applied to Parliament for further of di recognition the value of his scovery, which had been l his ll general y adopted, petition being presented by Wi iam i 1 Wilberforce , the slavery abol tionist . The credit of the f discovery was hotly contested on behal of Dr. James John on stone of Worcester and by the French behalf of M. Guyton ’ - Morvea u . , but Dr Carmichael Smyth s claim was upheld, and he was voted The College of Physicians admitted him a Fellow on 25 1 88 1 788 1 93 1801 June , 7 ; and he was Censor in , 7 and , 3 1 8 2 1 9 0 . H Harveian orator in 7 , and an Elect in e then fi A retired from practice , and lived rst at East cton, and 1 2 r u 1 8 8 1 . afterwards at Sunbu y, where he died on J ne , 1 5 In 77 he contracted a runaway match with Mary, only daughter of Thomas Holyland of Bromley and Mary hi Elton of Nether Hall, Ledbury, Herefords re . They were 9 n married at Gretna Green on November , the bride bei g

nl fif . i o y teen years old She must have been a lovely g rl, n to judge from her portrait by Romney, who pai ted her 1 88 fif and her husband in 7 for a fee of ty guineas . She nl 24 1 806 nin died sudde y on May , , while di g at Gatton, r Sunbury, Su rey, the house of Sir Mark Wood, Bart . Her

- age was forty six , and she had had eight sons and two n daughters , Mrs . Monro bei g the eldest of the family.

1 ’ n ma n s M a a in 1 2 2 2 G 80 i. 6 11 . 67 1 . e tle g z e, , ; 2 - is o o the J hns n s . L. hns n . 266 8. H t ry f o to e , C Jo to e , pp CHAPTER XII

DAVID MONRO BINNING AND HIS DESCENDANTS

A r u A ID . S ec ndus D V , the younger son of Dr lexander Mon o ( ) ,

d 1 6 1 776 . was born at E inburgh on February , He took the additional surname of Binning in 1 796 on acquiring the Softla w K property of Wester near elso , which was bought and settled on him according to the testamentary directions n n 1 of his distant cousin William Bin i g . He was admitted

n 9 1 98 did . an advocate on Ju e , 7 , but not practise Inverleith r 24 He died at House , Edinbu gh , on January ,

- r f 1 843 aged sixty six, and is bu ied in Grey riars Churchyard .

. fir f r He was twice married His st wi e, whom he ma ried A 9 1 803 H Ar a t on ugust , , was his cousin , Sophia ome of g y, i 29 1 806 n who d ed at Madeira on May , , leavi g two sons ,

George Home and Alexander . A picture of the two boys 1 81 1 was painted by Raeburn in .

28 1 804 I . George Home , who was born on May , , succeeded ’ ’ to Arga ty on his mother s death and to Softla w on his father s H Ar a t death . e took with g y the surname of Home, and nni became George Home Monro Bi ng Home . He was

1 1 828 . admitted an advocate on February , He married

2 1 Lt - 0 839 . . on February , , Catherine , daughter of Col Joseph a d irth A r i Burnett of G g , y shire, and had six ch ldren ; two u died in infancy, and the other fo r were hi 29 1 84 1 P ( 1 ) Sop a Margaret, born May , , died at aris

24 1 860 . March ,

1 - For the Binnin s see h a ters xiv. xvi. g , C p

124 THE BINNING MONROS OF AUCHINBOWIE

- Auc e world wide . He succeeded his father in hinbowi ftla and So w. A 1 2 1 i 2 Al 838 . e ( ) exander, born pril , He em grat d to Z 1 8 1 862 New ealand, and married (I) March , l P E izabeth, daughter of aymaster Charles Edward

R . N . i : Cotterell, , w th issue

29 1 865 M. E (i) George Home , born November , ,

. . di 1890 . . 190 1 C M E nburgh , M D , succeeded to ’ Ar a t g y on the death of his granduncle s widow, A 14 1 95 ugust , 8 , and assumed the surname

- Monro Home .

A 1 6 1 867 B A. (ii) lexander Edward, born May , , 1 Cambridge ( 1 1th Wrangler) 889. iii H vi 28 1869 ( ) erbert Da d, born December , ,

married Mrs . Clarke , with issue two sons and

one daughter .

r 6 1 874 . (iv) Hen y Charles , born September ,

1 893 . . (v) Elizabeth Maria, married H F Turner, Z N . . eldest son of Major Turner, Patea, , with

issue one son , George Noel .

(vi) Harriet Sophia .

i nf 1 872 . (vii) Marion, d ed in i ancy 1895 A i He married (II) nn e Frances , daughter of ’ Rev . F . W . Peel . On his brother s death he suc ceed ed oftla w l u to S as heir of entai , and ass med ni the surname Bin ng Monro .

3 G Va lle field nh ( ) eorge Home , of y , near Ble eim , New Z a 28 1 840 un 25 e land, born November , , died J e , 1885 r 27 18 3 i , married Janua y , 7 Isabella Sel na , youngest daughter of William Wroth sley Baldwin

of Stede Hill , Harrietsham , Kent, and by her (who 1 888 n married, secondly, Joh Dow Busby of Taradale,

Z. Napier, N. ) had issue

Al 14 1 5 suc (i) exander William , born March , 87 , DAVID MONRO BINNING 1 25

c eed ed to Auchinbowie on the death of his 29 1910 Ge uncle David , married October , ral

dine Marion, eldest daughter of M. Murray

Johnson . ul 8 1 878 1905 Charles George , born J y , , married Al l Catherine ice Nichol s , with issue one son and

two daughters . 1 6 1 879 (iii) George Home, born November , , married

1 910 Agnes Katharine Goulter. r (iv) Eliza Har iet .

(v) Katharine Jane .

1 1 85 1 . Charles Carmichael, born December , A 1 874 Maria gnes , married Colonel Thomas Peach 1 8 Waterman, late Bengal Staff Corps , who died 77

without issue .

i n 1887. Jane Sophia, d ed u married

n u 2 David Monro Bin ing married (secondly) on J ly , 181 3 , Isabella , second daughter of Lord President Robert Avontoun r — Blair of , and had two child en Robert Blair, l — 3 and Isabel a Cornelia the latter was born on December ,

1815 1 8 1844 . , and died unmarried on January ,

. nni 22 1879 e Mrs David Monro Bi ng died on May , , ag d

- wi eighty nine , and is buried th her husband at Greyfriars ,

Edinburgh .

. n 5 III Robert Blair Monro Bin ing was born on May , 1 814 r . , and went into the Mad as Civil Service He married 14 1 858 fi r on October , his rst cousin Kath ine , eldest daughter f o Louis Henry Ferrier of Belsyd e and Charlotte Monro . ni They had no family. Mr . Robert Bin ng died on September

1 1 1891 - f , , aged seventy seven ; his wi e predeceased him on

2 - 24 188 . May , , aged seventy one CHAPTER XIII

THE FAMILY OF PR OFESSOR ALEX AND ER MONRO (TERTI US)

THE twelve children of Monro ( T ertius) were

. A Cra i lockh a rt I lexander, of g and Cockburn, born July 5 1 803 i , , Captain in the Rifle Brigade , married El zabeth, W0 11 r second daughter of Charles Balfour Scott of , Roxbu gh

. Cra i lock h a rt shire Captain Monro sold the g estate , reserving

- . lif 22 1 867 the mansion house He died at C ton on January ,

- : di 19 1 8 9 fift . without issue his widow ed on July , 7 aged y six

11 . 1 5 1 806 James , born September , , succeeded his brother

Cra i lockh a rt - in g and Cockburn, Surgeon Major in the Cold A 1 8 1 857 stream Guards , married ugust , , Maria, daughter D uffin A di of Colonel of the Bengal rmy. He ed on November

3 1 870 i 9 1 900 . , , and his widow d ed on March , Their family cons isted of 1 Al 20 1859 ( ) exander, born May , , died unmarried October 1 6 1 8 9 D eva c ola m di a s , 7 at , Travancore , In a, the

result of an accident . 2 A 1 1 1 868 di ( ) James, born pril , , ed unmarried November ’

8 1 901 . , at Colombo His father s trustees sold Cra i lock h a rt g House and Cockburn, the former being Al bought in 1 890 by Mr . (afterwards Sir) exander

Oliver Riddell . 3 A l 25 1901 Cuenod ( ) gnes Maria, married Ju y , Marcel ,

A 14 1902 . with issue a daughter Vivian, born pril ,

III . r A s 24 18 10 Hen y, of Crawford, Victoria, born ugu t , , 1 869 1 died November , married ( ) Jane Christie, with issue 1 26

1 28 FAMILY OF ALEXAN DER MONRO ( TERTI US )

I 27 1 8 13 as V. Sir David , born March , , sisted his father u as a physician in Edinb rgh , emigrated to New Zealand 1 1 H 1 845 in 84 . e married in May Dinah , daughter Of John eek er Ofi ord shire i 15 S of Widford, , and d ed on February ,

1 8 . H 1 77 at Newstead near Nelson is widow died on June 0,

1882 . The Dictiona ry of N a tiona l Biogra phy gives the following account of him : When the first General Assembly was 24 1 854 convened May , he was returned as a member of it, r and was chosen to second the add ess to the governor . He was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1 86 1 and

1 62 . At . c 1 6 8 , and was knighted the general ele tion in 8 6 he was elected member for Cheviot and was again Speaker

1 8 0 . H until 7 , when he retired from this post e was then ns l much ince ed at the failure of Wi liam Fox, leader of the H his ouse , to propose any vote of thanks for services ; and him in order to attack he obtained a seat, but lost it on h H petition . T ereupon the ouse of Representatives adopted an address praying that some mark of favour might be shown him for his long services ; but Fox still refused to recommend so outspoken an opponent for a seat in the

Legislative Council . Monro was then elected to the House ’ ’ for Wa ik ona ti and Opposed Fox s government . His family consisted of

1 846 i ul 1 19 5 Alexander, born March , d ed J y 7, 0 , 1 885 a wi married Fr nces Severn, th issue four sons

and one daughter. 1 847 1 86 vi 9. Da d , born July , died unmarried July 1 85 i 0 1 85 . James Stuart , born March , d ed May 0 A i 1 85 1 1 885 Charles John, born pr l , married Helena

Beatrice , daughter of Donald Macdonald, with issue e three sons and two daught rs . H 1 860 enry James Carmichael, born December , died 1 6 February 86 . FAMILY OF ALEXANDER MONRO ( TERTI US ) 1 29

6 e 1 886 ( ) Maria G orgiana , married Sir James Hector, 1 907 M . D . , who died November ,

having h ad issue six sons and three daughters . 1853 di (7) Constance Charlotte, born November , ed A 1 1910 1 8 6 ll pril , , married 7 Philip Gerald Di on ,

1 890 vi . who died , lea ng one son and four daughters

24 1 81 5 79th V. William , born February , , Major (Cameron) 1 843 Highlanders , married in Elizabeth , eldest daughter of fif A . Sir Robert bercromby, th Baronet Major Monro died 2 1 881 A 4 1 893 on March , his widow died on ugust , . Their family consisted of

1 nl ( ) Maria Elizabeth Janet, married Thomas Sta ey 2 1 910 Rogerson , who died May , , having had issue

one son (who died young) and three daughters . 2 20 ( ) Sophia Frances Margaret, died unmarried February , 2 1 90 . 3 8 1875 ( ) Charlotte Mary Douglas , married December , fi ir n fif her rst cousin S James Colquhou of Luss, th di 1 3 1 907 . Baronet, who ed March , Lady Colquhoun i 9 1 902 i d ed January , , leav ng two daughters .

A 30 1 8 18 VI . Charles , born pril , , died at the age of twenty

months .

. 22 1 801 5 VII Maria, born November , , married February , 1 828 n i La n b res A di n Redh a ll Joh Ingl s of g y , uchin n y and , 23 1 84 7 . . advocate , who died March , Mrs Inglis died 6 1 884 n November , , leavi g issue two sons and three daughters .

. 4 1 804 1 VIII Catherine , born November , , married June , 1 835 Sir All as his second wife, John James Steuart of a nba nk fif 1 Berwickshire , th and last Baronet . She died without

1 C oltne ss i ns Ma it a nd lub . 391 Au obi a/h o G o Ei h h Du Collect o ( l C ) , p ; t ogr p y f e rge, g t ke

o A i. 1 14 . f rgyll, 130 FAMILY OF ALEXAN DER MONRO ( TERTI US)

18 1 868 issue April , , and her husband predeceased her on

- 29 1 849 n . ir January , aged sixty ine Her bust by S John

Steele is in the Scottish National Gallery.

. u 8 1808 1 831 IX Georgiana, born J ne , , married in R ubisla w A hi George Skene of , berdeens re , Professor of Civil

Uni . di n 4 and Scots Law in Glasgow versity She ed on Ju e ,

- 1 868 2 1 8 5 . . He died on January , 7 aged sixty seven Their fam ily consisted of

r 1 833 u James F ancis, advocate, born , died nmarried

e 22 1 86 1 . Sept mber , 2 190 . Maria Isabella, died unmarried May A 29 1 839 di 14 Jane Georgiana, born pril , , ed June 1 8 1 1 6 1 864 r 7 , married June , George Michael F aser

Tytler of Keith Marischal, East Lothian, son of di James Tytler of Woodhouselee . He ed on January

- 3 1 905 . , , aged eighty two Their family was

Al r n 1 1 1 865 (i) exander James F aser, born Ju e , ,

1 3 1 869. died January , 4 1866 Blanche Georgiana, born September , , A 26 1 8 1 . died pril , 7 l 1 2 1 868 (iii) George Wil iam, born May , , died 1 u 1 1 868 . J ne , li (iv) Maurice Wil am , who assumed the surname

- t n 1 8 1 869 of Skene Ty ler, born Ju e , , married 1 7 1902 l September , Caro ine Charlotte , elder

- r daughter of Lieut . Colonel Hen y Lonsdale

Ha llewell, C . M. G . A 22 1 89 Georgiana Mabel Kate , married pril , 7

r - a t - Ernest Hen y Greene , barrister law, Dublin .

4 20 1 86 1 G ( ) Katherine Elizabeth, married June , eorge

W. S . A 4 18 5 Chancellor, , who died pril , 7 .

BINNING PEDIGREE

THOMAS BIN NING ot h a t f Ca rlowrieh au h 1571 d . Feb . 1 7 1606 , g c r er o g , , , h a da u h Wil iam Livi s ne of Eccle ma a m Ca in f n s ch n. . t r e, g ter o l g to

wri AM ES C a rlo ehau h b . 1 58 d Feb. 2 2 1663 Wi ia m J f . 0 . , o g , , , , ll 61 Ma i n u h d m . 1 8 d a f Ad instone f , r o , g ter o o Addi ns e wh Ma il 2 ton o (1 . h 1635 2 A 6 , rc ( ) pr , 1636 Eu h mia da u h te f Bai li f Jervis , p e , g r o l e o wh ton o d . A i 1 6 0 . , pr l 7

Jam s f Carlowrieh a b e , o ,

a d v a d . 1 681 in. 1 6 0 S wa ns n one d a u h 2 oc te, , , to , g ter ; ( ) M a n w o 11 a Bu ho (1. J hn C a i s nd s n f $ rg ret r et, o r g, eco o

1 695 . Th m a s C a i f Ricca rt on o r g o , one a h d ug ter.

b li a m au n b . N ov. 1 66 d Ma 1 08 a h n b Feb . 1 66 in. Fe . 11 J am s Eu L 5 . 7 C i . 7 , e , p , re ce, , y , t er e , , w 24 169 Ma a d a u h e 1 6 i lia m ai d s nd so ant in i in b . an 1 66 m . S . W J . 4 7 97 B r ter . ept , rg ret, g t r , l r , eco d m i u on v v Hu L d Crossri . Sir R b a d Sa ht u h . Edinbu h . d . N o . 1665. f Sir Da i B f rg rg o e ( or g) o ert r o g , s ns a nd s v n da u h s o e e g ter . BINNING PEDIGREE

6 m 1 3 ( 1 . Ja n 1 v s d in Th o a s h . xa d ra Ma h 11 7 . 1 1 L d P E m . Sa a m A n B WILLIAM b. 8 7 f , rc , , , , or ro o t o r , le er - Wa ll bu h 1 675 7 b ou h ford 1 675 kni h d Ja n. 1 677 m . f Red hall. rg , g t y , g te , o BET d a u h v a w 1 Dec. 1 662 ELIZA H f LAURENCE Soorr f Ba el . ) , , g ter o o

he d . Dec . 1 698 a d 59 2 A i 1 701 Ma Liv m stone f , ge ; ( ) pr l , ry g o

w a m s Men i s C oul ei a llers h s. . Sa a s Wid f J f t . S e d . ltco t , o o e z e o p

W a l rd HARLE b . N ov 4 d . e . Wi ia m f l fo b . Ju 1669 C S . 1 67 S ll o y , ly , , , p - m . 1709 Is b d a u h f J oh n S o i i o G n al 1 721 5 bou h Pil . o el , g ter o l c t r e er , g t

D und as f Dudd in ston. m ui 1 722 in J ul 1 706 Ma a o g r , y , rg ret , d augh ter of Hew Montgomery of

Broomland s.

l an KATHARIN E b . Ma 9 e , , y ,

Oct 1 1 d De . 1 69 . 1 , 17 1 , . c 4, 1 7 ,

1709 m . Jun 5 1 738 , e , , 1 DAVID lNGLIS Tr a Jun , , e e su of th e a n 1710 . rer B k of who S o and d J a n. 1 3 c tl , . ,

1767 a d 65. , ge CHAPTER XIV

THE BINNINGS OF WALLYFORD

NISB E T states 1 with some probability that the Binnings are n French by extraction, and that the name was origi ally i B e n Ben gne (Latin nig us gracious) . With greater rash ness he traces the descent of the Wa llyford family from a B unnock peasant named William , who is said to have con tri ved l hi a stratagem to capture Lin ithgow Castle , w ch was held by an English garrison under Peter Luba rd in the year 1 3 ’ 08 u . , d ring Robert the Bruce s War of Independence The ’ for B ruc e story depends its authority upon John Barbour s , r 1 a poem w itten about 370 , and was perpetuated by Sir

Walter Scott in his Ta les of a Gra ndfa ther. Bunnock was employed by the garrison to bring in hay, his to his and plan was conceal eight armed men in cart, while he himself walked yd illy alongside : others were - 2 : posted in am bush near the gate . The poem narrates

And quhen it Wes set evinly Betuix the ch ek ys of the yet [th e ga te - posts] Swa h a t m en m cht s a r na a t fa sten in no wa t y it p g , [ y] He c r it th eif ca a ll c a l a ll $ y , , ll , l And ha n h e le t th e a dwa nd Whi fa l t y g [ p] l , h th e ra ce in h a s e And ewit in twa. th e soym in by . [ t t ] Bunnok With tha t d eliuerly [quickly] Ra uch ll th e or a r sic a ne rou d ea such a b o t ti p t t , [ lt l w] Tha b ude a nd ba rn s bra ns ba h com out t l y [ i ] t ,

1 ra dr i. 100 429. He l y, , 2 The B u e S ottish T xt S i t i. 244 B x . ines 137 r c ( c e oc e y) , ( ook l 1 34

1 36 THE BINNINGS

ll ni wa s written by Wi iam Bin ng, advocate , about the year 1 1 80 fi s 7 , and is followed by Burke , but the rst six generation

of the pedigree there given are mere names , and some

Ben n - times not even that . William de y g , great grandson fir of the eponymous hero , is the st of the descendants to be provided with a name ; then follows a succession of v fathers and sons , called respectively David, William , Da id,

Thomas .

Th is genealogy is not plausible , nor does it square with the scattered references to the lairds of Easter Binning in 1429 B en the public records . In William de yn granted a ’ 2 n Ben n ni eteen years lease of his lands of Estir y g, and 3 ’ Nisbet says that he saw in Wa llyford s charter chest a

I 1406 - 38 of charter by James . ( ) of the lands East Binnin g in favour of David de Binning on the resignation of William

his father . The existence of this charter in possession of the Wa llyford family is at least a presumption that they n n were the direct descendants of the Bin ings of Easter Binni g , i r but it is impossible to trace the fam ly fu ther back , and the Bunnock atte mpt to link them to , if such a person ever ll existed, just i ustrates the eternal tendency of genealogists f to start their pedigrees rom some heroic personage , in

defiance of all rules of historical evidence . According to the records John Bynnyng is the laird from 1484 till though by that time he was in financial diffi cultice and had burdened the mansion- house and part of the 1 5 5 nni 5 200 . 0 lands for merks In Thomas Bi ng took sasine, and at various times within the next twenty years he dis nni 6 poned certain portions to Robert Bruce of Wester Bi ng . 1 526 1532 i nni He died before . In El zabeth Bi ng made up

1 La nd ed G n Su m nt 1848 . 1 68 . e try, pple e , , p 3 2 - R. M . S . 1424 15 13 No. 192 . a d i. 429. , , Her l ry, 4 $ 1 M 14 - R S . i. 609 A a D om . ns i ii 10 290 R. . S . 24 15 13 No 2737 . . P . , ct Co l , , ; , , . 5 Ex h u Ro s xii. 7 17 . c eq er ll , 3 s o i ir Wm F ase 11 . 247. Ea add n on S . rl f H gt , r r, THE BINNINGS 1 37

1 i Bin a title , hav ng redeemed part at any rate of Easter 2 il P a rd ova n. ning, which she then sold to W liam Hamilton in f u She was soon a terwards succeeded by David, pres mably her uncle, who was the last laird of the name , and may have been, as the pedigree states , the father of Thomas a rlowrieh a u h n Binning of C g , with whom conti uous history begins . s W n The land passed to the Bruces of ester Binni g, who 1 600 n about the year sold the whole lands of Bin ing, East, l A Sir T il West, and Midd e , to Lord dvocate homas Ham ton , 3 16 6 afterwards first Earl Of Haddington . In 0 the free barony n i ill of Binni g was erected by the K ng, and st gives the title ’ to the Earl s eldest son .

MAS IN N IN G 4 THO B was a retainer of Lord Torphichen, and was rewarded for his services with a feu of the lands and dwelling- house of Ca rlowrieh a ugh near Kirkliston in

Linlithgowshire . The charter was granted on September

4 15 1 fi n VI . , 7 , and was con rmed by Ki g James on January

- £3 . 9, The feu duty was Scots inni Thomas B ng married Catharine, daughter of William E lism a ch a n In lism a uch a ns Ec clesm a ch a Livingstone of g , g or n s a nli hi (as it is variou ly spelt) , near B thgate in Li thgows re , ll and Margaret Crawford his wife . Wi iam Livingstone had ’ i evidently sided with Queen Mary s party in the Civ l War, 6 1 572 and on May , his allegiance to King James was accepted 6 by the Privy Council . Th omas Binning seems not to have lived at Ca rlowrie n hi haugh, but co tinued at Torp chen, where he died on 1 1 606 r February 7 , , su vived by his widow, and by three sons — ll — James, his successor, Wi iam and Thomas and a daughter

1 2 - Ex h u R s x vi. 546 . R. M . S . 1546 80 No 1446 c eq er oll , , , . . 3 Ea s o addin n Sir Wm . Fra s i. 1 60. rl f H gto , er, 1‘ 5 R M S 1 4 C R. xiv. 327 . . . 5 6 80 No. 2107 P . . , , .

C E . ii 728 . P . . , . 1 38 THE BINNINGS ll A . gnes His wi , which was made four days before his i e death, was signed for him by the M nist r of the Evangel

at Torphichen, as he could not write , and is a pathetic docu 1 i h as ment . He appeals to his w fe, who right to all his ’ d c ca ns movable goo s , which are veri meine , for God s , for the love she bears me and hir m oth erlie a ffectioune to hir b a irnes hirself a a irt awin to content with ane p, and to set p ortioun s ecia lli ane other p for behoof of my saids bairns , but p e A of gnes my dochter, who now is come to ane woman, that she may by that moyen [means] be provided when God shall ’ after occasion . He appoints his wife and his son James his a nd n to be executors , and James Robert Livi gstone, her

brothers , with his son James to be tutors and overseers to the u £2 yo nger children, and he leaves a legacy of 0 to his sister

Elspeth . u n Thomas , one of the yo nger so s , became a tailor burgess din r of E bu gh , and had a son Thomas and a daughter Sarah , Redh a ll who married Alexander Brand of .

AM E S IN N IN G n J B , who was a merchant in Edi burgh, got of fi Ca rlowrieh a u h 25 a charter con rmation of g on March , but he is there described as indweller in Fuird of ’ Cra nstoun Riddell, which is mentioned in the report on Cranston parish as a pendicle quh ilk the said James had ‘ of um qle M Gill of Cra nstounRiddell and yit hes for twelff ’ 3 M dl schilingis be yeir. Cranston is in i othian on the western slope of the La m m erm oors.

i . 20 1 61 8 James Binn ng was twice married On September , Addinstone Addinstone he married Marion, daughte—r of of , and had by her three sons James , Thomas and Robert 4 di and two daughters, Catherine and Margaret . She ed in

1 Edinbu h T s a m nts a nua 31 1 61 1 . rg e t e , J ry ,

2 - R. M . S . , 1 634 5 1 , No . 299. 3 R s on a ish s Ma it a nd ub . 5 1 . eport P r e ( l Cl ) , p 4 Edinbu h T s a m nts N v mb 18 1635 . rg e t e , o e er ,

140 THE BINNINGS

1 s : 1 in in u had two son ( ) John, a merchant Ed b rgh , who l di 1 699 left an on y son John, who ed as a child in , and

2 . ( ) James , a writer, who left no issue The representation

s - of the thu devolved upon his half brother,

William .

1 Edinb u h T s a m n s A il 16 1700 a nd De mber 26 1702 rg e t e t , pr , , ce , . CHAP TER XV

SIR WILLIAM BINNING

ILLIAM IN N ING 1 1 1637 W B was born on March , , when his

- father was fifty seven and his mother fifty years of age . He 10 1 655 A was apprenticed on January , to lexander Brand, 1 f of R edh a ll merchant, a terwards , whose wife was Sarah , ’ A of n n n . daughter Thomas Bin i g , William s u cle On pril 2 7 1664 r , he was admitted a bu gess and guild brother of i u his Ed nb rgh in right of wife Elizabeth Scott, whose father, of B a vela w ur Laurence Scott , was a b gess , and he became a His wealthy and successful merchant . business was primarily of f u fi that a linen manu act rer, but he was also a nancier and a contractor with Government . When Holyrood was ’ £22 1 2 II . s 16 . being rebuilt in Charles time , he was paid , s Scots for 29 d oza in of great Gea sts [joists] furnished and d el vered P a lla ce 3 y in by him to the works at the , March , 2

He had trading relations with foreign parts, and visited 3 Paris and Holland on business or legal quests . During the two wars with the Netherlands he helped to fit out privateers in company with Sir Robert Baird of Sa ughton and Sir Robert of P erceton Barclay . ’ One of his factories was Paul s Work at the foot Of Leith i f 1479 Wynd, orig nally an institution ounded in by Thomas A i Of dl Spence , Bishop of berdeen, for the discipl ne i e vaga

1 - D 47 E Ma rria R is . S a a s m s i Add . 1 660 70 . 5 dinbu h t te P per ( o e t c) , , p rg ge eg ter 2 ’ Ki s M a s M ns R . lne . 200 . The n as . S M g ter o , y , p 3 F un a inha l D isi ns i. 478 646 . o t l , ec o , , 142 A G ? SIR WILLI M BINNIN “

ui 1619 bonds . It was reb lt in , when it was established as a woollen factory, where poor boys chosen by the magistrate s u were educated and taught the trade . D ring the Civil War l ’ it was used as a hospital for General Les ie s army . In 1 683 Sir William Binning a nd h is partners took a sub lease of it, changed it from a woollen into a linen factory, and ignoring the charitable design conducted it as a business undertaking . The City authorities raised an action to get l n the lease cancelled, but after a number of oscil ati g decisions 1 in the Court of Session they failed . The subsequent history of Paul’ s Work was that in the eighteenth century it became a bridewell or hous e of c orrec 1 805 for P tion, and from it was used the Ballantyne ress , ’ 2 where Sir Walter Scott s works were printed . The site is now covered by the goods sheds of the North British l Rai way. At Michaelmas 1 666 William Binning was elected to the in 1 668 Town Council, and he became City Treasurer and li for held the post for three years . He was then a Bai e a ll At year, and for the next two years a Counci or. Michael 1 675 O fi mas he was elected Lord Provost, and held f ce for r 1 6 1 6 8 n two yea s . In 77 and 7 he was agai elected a l n Counci lor, his last appearance at the Council bei g on

30 1 679. 1 6 September , In January 77 , while Lord Provost, k Of he was nighted by the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor Scot On d II Wh l land, a warrant signe by Charles . at iteha l on January At the very outset of his term of office he protested against having to give precedence to the Bishop of Edinburgh at a visitation of the College, and the protest was supported by ni 4 the una mous vote of the Council .

1 M is n Di iona . 9107 F un a inha D isi ns i. 637 666 709 ii . 17 . or o , ct ry, p o t ll, ec o , , , ; 2 The Ba a n n ss . 17 . ll ty e Pre , p 3 - a nd a o S a e a s D m s i 1676 77 . 499. C le r f t t P per ( o e t c) , , p Edinbu h ounci R is s xx viii. 1 15 . rg C l eg ter ,

144 SIR WILLIAM BINNING

n passes in the south of Scotland to ships goi g abroad, and ff when his successor, Francis Kinloch , came into o ice, he petitioned the Privy Council to be allowed to continue the k nowen P rov t duty, since he was , and the present es was ’ Councell not versant in such affairs , and the granted it, tho their owne former act bore they should be subscryved by the P rovest for the tym e being but this wa s a ba fle to Francis c ’ 1 Kinloch in the very entry of his oflice . Binning’ s later years were disfigured by several notorious acts of bribery and corruption, which were a scandal even in a generation not squeamish about public morality perhaps the worst feature of his conduct was that he tried to cheat h is associates . Peculation was the natural result ’ of municipal training : the Provost s remuneration was made up of gratuities paid by those who Obtained lucrative ffi f o ces , or eus and tacks of lands , houses , shops, or other ’ ll 1 1 branches of the city s revenue . It was not ti 7 8 that 2 £300 . the practice was abolished, and a salary of was voted In August 1 682 the Brewers of Edinburgh made a com n P n plai t to the rivy Council against Sir John You g, Sir ’ l i Sir Wil iam Binn e , James Dick, Robert Miln of Barnton n and Magnus Pri ce , who farmed the excise and ale taxes in

Edinburgh and the Lothians . The grounds of complaint were that they oppressed and overvalued the Brewers, that they forced the Brewers to buy bear (barley) from them at r exorbitant rates , and that they procured thei tack by n r H attempti g to bribe the Treasu er Depute, Lord alton w ds (after ar Earl of Lauderdale) , who was one of the Com missioners of Excise , with a gift of merks . Th e accused were found guilty and ordered to forfeit the merks 3 and in regard the said Sir William Binnie and ’ Robert Miln s parts by the probation appeared to be hellish

1 F un a inha l is o i a N i s i. 1 77 . o t l , H t r c l ot ce , 2 M uni i ns i u i n o h 1 2 is i a Ske h o the a Edinbu 8 6 . xxxvi. H tor c l tc f c p l Co t t t o f rg , , p 3 F un a inha D isions i. 1 89. o t ll , ec , SIR WILLIAM BINNING 145

ul r and fo , and that they prevaricated in thei depositions , and that they confess they received . that sum from the rest to be given as a bribe to the Treasurer Depute, and that k ee ed he refused to accept of it, and yet they p it up , and concealed the same as if it had been received, and made the l intentin rest believe that Halton had taken it, ti l after the g hi r of the process , and that they had in a gh measu e abused u r and traduced the said Treas rer Depute in his fame, honou , and reputation being a Privy Councillor and Officer of State therefore the Secret Council for their personal crime fined l n 9000 the said Sir Wil iam Bin ie in merks, and the said Robert Miln (whose house in Leith had been burnt a night 3000 or two before) in merks, and this over and above the ’ said merks whereof they were to pay their shares . il i Sir W liam Binn ng , in partnership with Sir Robert n f Dickson and Sir Thomas Ken edy, also armed the customs and foreign excise for five years from 1 693 at per nn a um, and he and his friends again got into trouble for taking the Opposite view of bribery in relation to this con 1 of £2000 tract . They objected to a charge for wines to be ffi given as gratuities to the o cers of state, and Dickson ’ appealed to the King s protection . So far from getting sympathy, he was promptly charged with traducing these fi high of cials , those charges being a customary and recog nised form of extortion, and he had to purge his offence by

asking pardon on his knees . The moral of this incident for Binning and his friends was that the exposure of bribery in others was as bad a crime f as bribery itsel . He managed to combine both offences in another notorious 2 . 1693 A transaction In , along with lexander Brand of Brands field Th and Sir omas Kennedy, he contracted to supply

1 Edinbu h M ha n s a nd M ha ndis in Old Tim s b Ro t ha m b s Ad v Lib. rg erc t erc e e , er C er ( . a a m h s - P p let , n g g ) . 2 h a mb s D m s i An o nd na s S a iii. 176 C er , o e t c l f cotl , . 146 SIR WILLIAM BINNING

G 5000 firelocks £1 the overnment with stands of at each .

Brand went abroad to buy them , and wrote that 26s. was the lowest price at which they could be sold so as to yield v u a profit . In order to induce the Pri y Co ncil to give the extra price Kennedy and Binning contracted with Brand that they would offer a bribe of two hundred and fifty n gui eas to the Earls of Linlithgow and Breadalbane . In point of fact no such sums were paid to the two noble s men, they being person of that honour and integrity that ’ they were not capable to be imposed on that way. Never th eless Kennedy and Binning disclosed the contract in a A subsequent action in the Court of dmiralty, to the great ’ slander and reproach of the said two noble persons . For the combined offences of contriving bribery and defaming these fined — n £800 nn noble personages they were Ken edy , Bi ing £300 £500 ll , and Brand , and were committed to prison ti payment was mad e . P Lord olwarth, afterwards Earl of Marchmont, wrote 25 1 69 Tulliba rdine h a d on March , 7 to Lord , who asked him 1 to use his influence on behalf Of the culprits As to the wr n bribery business , I ote fully before, and have nothi g to

. lli a ll add Sir Wi am B . is , as think , the least guilty of the hr his il n t ee ; yet gu t is too deep he is my ki sman, but the person is unhappy of my kin, that is guilty of any baseness for I have no countenance either to plead for any such, or ’ to bid another do it . Six years later Binning actually sued Brand for his third l 2 i of the £1500 profit on the fire ock s. Brand repl ed that f such a dishonest contract ought not to be en orced, and that Sir William Binning and Sir Thomas Kennedy were infamous cheats , not worthy to be conversed with, and who ought to ’ Th e u be ashamed to show their faces in public again . ta nt received additional point from the fact that Binning and

1 The M a rchmont a s R s iii. 1 2 3 . P per , o e , 2 F un a inha D isi ns ii. 191 o t ll, ec o , .

148 SIR WILLIAM BINNING jurisdiction over all O ffences except the four pleas of the

Crown .

- fire The mansion house, which was destroyed by about 1 890 , was a good example of seventeenth century work ;

E - di fine a plain, shaped buil ng with a Renaissance doorway 1 6 2 bearing the date 7 , which was no doubt the year when s 1 the house was fini hed . The Binnings’ town house was the fifth story above the i 2 hi street in Parl ament Close, w ch ran from the High Street to the Cowgate to the east of the Parliament House . The n 1 whole close was burnt dow in February 700 , and the family Ca non te hi ill moved to a house in the ga , w ch by a piece of fortune was burnt down too in Sir William Binning was a Commissioner of Supply for dl 1 678 1 685 1 689 1 690 1 696 Mi othian in , , , and , and for both Midlothian and East Lothian in 1 704 4 he was appointed a

P . i 1 08 in 1 672 J. for Midloth an in 7 , and he was one of the nine burgess representatives on the Commission for Plantation 5 - i ir . of K ks . He was a seat holder in the Tron K rk His politics may be inferred from the fact that in July 1 681 he was on the great assize which convicted on a process of error the jury which had previously acquitted certain prisoners charged with complicity in the murder of Arch 6 bishop Sharp and the Bothwell Bridge rising ; and in February 1 683 he was on the jury that convicted Lawrie or a e Weir of Blackwood, factor on the Dougl s estat s, for treason in befriending the Covenanters in Lanarkshire . He was also one of the jury that in 1 693 convicted Charles Lord

1 Ma cGibbon a nd R ss as a d a nd D m s i A hi u iv. 64 . o , C tell te o e t c rc tect re, 2 M m ia s o Edinbu h Sir Da ni ils n 1 891 i. 267 . e or l f rg , el W o , , ’ 3 Muss bur h v all ford S ssi n a s T wn l k s Ofiice Muss Ma s. . W g of el g y ( e o P per , o C er , el burgh) . ’ Th ms n s A s viii . 7 9 a 223 b 464 a ix . 69 a 137 a x i. 139 a 140 a o o ct , ( ) , ( ) , ( ) ( ) , ( ) ( ) , ( )

Adv. Lib. a m h s vol. 22 No. 1 43 . P p let , , 5 The T n Ki Rev . D . Bu . 235. ro rk, tler, p 6 w S a T ia s xi. 91 95 ix. 1040. Ho ell, t te r l , , ; FAMILY OF SIR WILLIAM BINNING 149

Fraser of high treason, for being present at the Cross of Fraserburgh the previous year when King James and the pretended Prince of Wales were proclaimed, and for drinking 1 r fi 2 l . thei healths . The prisoner was ned £ 00 ster ing

He seems to have been in great request as a juror, for 1 693 in June he was summoned for the trial of Kenneth, of f 1 697 Earl Sea orth, for treason, and in February he was ‘ chancellor of the assize who convicted Sir Godfrey M Culloch

of murdering his neighbour, William Gordon, a claimant 2 ‘ M ulloch to his estate of Ca rd oness in Galloway . C was

executed at the Cross of Edinburgh . Sir ni 8 1 1 1 William Bin ng died on January , 7 aged seventy h f w t ree , and was buried at Grey riars . He was t ice married . fi 1 662 His rst wife , whom he married in December , and by f whom he had a large amily, was Elizabeth , daughter of 3 r 1 6 8 Lau ence Scott of B a vela w. She died in December 9

fift - aged y nine . A 1 01 His second wife , whom he married in pril 7 , was of of Coultera llers Mary Livingstone, widow James Menzies

in Lanarkshire , by whom she had had a son and a daughter.

She survived her second husband, but had no family by him . After his death she succeeded to the estate of her brother 4 George Livingstone of Saltcoats near Gullane in East Lothian .

’ Sir William Binning s family by his first wife consisted Of E u h a m 1 664 1 665 p , born January , died November ; Laurence, 1 665 1 66 born November ; Catherine , born February 7 James ’ twa ines 1 669 and William , , born July , James dying October 1 689 1 6 0 n ARLE S ; Hew, born October 7 and died you g ; CH ,

. a nd r f A n father of Mrs David Inglis g andfather o Mrs . lexa der S ecundus 1 6 4 Monro ( ) , born November 7 ; and Richard, who

died June 1696 .

1 Arn imina T ia s . 7 6. ot , Cr l r l , p 2 wa a is o Ga o Wm . M nzie ii. A . . 54 . H tory f ll y, cke , pp p 3 - - See ha s. xviii. xx . S vi s o i s 1700 09. C p er ce f He r , 150 FAMILY OF SIR WILLIAM BINNING

W l in ’ Catherine , Sir il iam Binn g s second daughter, married 1 3 1 697 li Sir on February , Wil am Baird, second son of Sa u hton Robert Baird of g , and had four sons and seven lli r daughters . One of the sons , Wi am , succeeded as hei to n n his cousi , Sir Joh Baird of Newbyth, and was the father ir of S David, the hero of Seringapatam . din Laurence, the eldest son, was educated at E burgh M A “ 1 686 . University and graduated . . in Following his ’ father s example he speculated in farming the Edinburgh excise duties on ale for the two years 1 706 They were n knocked down to him at a public roup for per an um . 1 7 1 708 He died of a high fever on May , , and was buried in ’ B a ela v w s Ground in Greyfri ars Churchyard . He had 24 1 697 Sir married on September , Margaret, daughter of Crossri David Hume of g, one of the Lords of Session, and 4 1 746 had two daughters, Elizabeth , who died on February , , and Jean they are mentioned in a list Of leading Wh ig ladies 1 in Edinburgh society in 745 . A lli ’ fter Sir Wi am s death, the property, which was destined ’ ill twa ine to heirs male, went to his son W iam , the , who M A. was also a graduate of Edinburgh ( . He married 25 1 709 hn (contract dated March , ) Isobel, daughter of Jo D uddin ston Dundas of g near South Queensferry, and had l i n Ann three sons, Wi l am , Joh , and Laurence , and a daughter ,

29 1 86 . n . who died on January , 7 They were all u married

a William the younger, who succeeded his father bout 1 735 20 1 740 , was admitted an advocate on December , and had a good practice , his most celebrated case being the trial

ni . of Lord Provost Stewart, for whom he was ju or counsel f r He sold Wa lly o d to James Finlay about the year 1 755 . di He was for many years a rector of the Bank of Scotland, 1 3 and an original manager of the Society, founded in 77 , for the Relief of the Honest and Industrious Poor .

1 ’ Ad v a s Lib. am h s vol. 24 NO . 165. oc te P p let , ,

CHAPTER XVI

CHAR LES BINNING OF PILMUIR

HARLE S IN N IN G fi li nn n C B , fth son of Sir Wil am Bi i g, was born in 1 674 2 November , and was admitted an advocate on January 9,

1 72 1 - 1 698. In January he was appointed Solicitor General 1 in conjunction with the Hon . John Sinclair, advocate , in ’ i Sir Robert Walpole s admin stration, but he never had a seat in Parliament . The Duke of Roxburghe was Secretary e of State for Scotland, and Robert Dundas, aft rwards the A first Lord President of the name , was Lord dvocate . n The governi g group , which also included the Lord

Justice Clerk, Erskine of Grange , and was commonly known ’ i as The Squadrone , did not reta n its influence long , but was abruptly overthrown in May The Government was highly unpopular in Scotland owing to two acts ; one the introduction of the malt tax , and the other the proposal hl for the disarmament of the Hig ands, a measure suggested 1 1 by General Wade to prevent a repetition of the rising of 7 5 . Th e Lord Advocate was discovered to be abetting the oppon 3 ents of the malt tax , and the Secretary of State fell under i ’ a l ke suspicion, so Walpole dismissed the whole Squadrone, n including Charles Bi ning, and formed a coalition with the A Duk e of rgyll, who was for many years the most powerful

man in Scotland . n Binning never agai held a Crown appointment, but he remained an active member of the Faculty of Advocates

1 2 d h u a n a nua 23 1 72 1 . E inbu L ha a s 11. 156. rg Co r t, J ry , ock rt P p er , 1 Wodrow Ana ta Ma i a nd ub iii. 209 a d nia n M u un 3 1725 , lec ( tl Cl ) , ; C le o erc ry, J e , . 1 52 CHARLES BINN ING OF PILMUIR 1 53

during his sixty years at the bar, and was continuously ’ ’ for a long period on the Dean s and Treasurer s Councils. In November 1 755 it was necessary for the Faculty to

- appoint a Vice Dean, as the Dean , Robert Dundas , afterwards r f the second Lo d President, was o ten absent in London on ni his parliamentary duties ; and Charles Bin ng, then eighty 1 n ni . re one years of age, was u a mously chosen He was 1 58 elected each year until 7 , and presided at most of the

Faculty meetings down to August 1 757 . In January 1 722 he bought from Andrew Ker of Moriston

five - u P ilm uir Bla ck ch ester Muirh ouse the po nd lands of , , Ha lk erla nd La urenc ela nd Sc ottscroft i of , Little and , ly ng of Colliela w in the parish Lauder, together with the lands of , Bowerh ouse Wisela wmill , and Howden or in the parish of 2 n . Channelkirk, the price paid bei g Scots Both properties were in the bailiery of Lauderdale and county of

Pilm uir r - of Berwick . is about two miles no th west Lauder, Colliela w ll and a little further to the north, on the hi s forming f the west side o the glen . Pilm uir with its pertinents had formed part of the posses sions of the Pringles or Hoppringles of Smailholm and of fi w Galashiels , from the middle the fteenth century do n to when Sir James Pringle sold it to John, eighth f fir of Lord Hay of Yester, a terwards st Earl Tweeddale . Th e first conventicle held in Lauderdale took place at Pilm uir in by which time the property had been acquired by f 5 o Moriston ul . the Kers , a powerf Presbyterian family Colliela w and Bowerh ouse had belonged to the Borth 14 73 ll wicks as far back as , when Wi iam , second Lord 6 wi his Borth ck granted them to son Thomas, but they passed

1 ’ F a u Minu s Ad v a s Lib a . c lty te , oc te r ry 2 B s o Ma 1 1723. C . a nd S . Da m ook f ( lry ple), y , 3 - R M S 14 1 20 33 N o . 2060. . . . , 244 5 13, NO . 968 ; 6 , 1‘ La ud . 1 68 . a nd La ud da A. Th m s n er er le, o o , p 5 In uisitiones B wi N o . 426 . q , er ck, 6 - R. M . S . , 1424 1 5 13 , NO . 1 130 . U 1 54 CHARLES BINNING OF PILMUIR

out of that family at the end of the following century owing to the extravagance of James, the eighth Baron, who sald ’ 1 a ll i in 1 599. 1 5 1 601 e , and d ed December On May , G orge Heriot of Colliela w S erved heir to his brother Peter Heriot 2 1 631 An r in Leith . In one d ew Law is described as heritor ’ Bourh ouses - of the lands of , and also possesses two thirds Colliela w h ad of , but two years later these lands all passed M ri o ston. 1 633 An to the Kers of In October na Heriot, Tra broune daughter of the deceased Robert Heriot of , is served heir to the remaining third of Colliela w in succession 3 r - In to James Heriot of T a broune her great grandf ather. 1 691 Coa lston Brown of is said to be proprietor, but ulti e ni mat ly it also passed to the Kers, from whom Charles Bin ng

acquired the whole . The Mill of Nether Howden or Wisela wm ill was held by the Carres of Cavers for many generations as vassals first of 4 5 the Abbey of Kelso and afterwards Of the King . The r 1 60 164 Kers of Roxbu gh held it from 7 till 7, when John Ai e i tchison, advocat , and James his son got the l ferent and

fee respectively, and they were succeeded by one William 1 22 Hunter, who in 7 disponed the arable lands to Charles

Binning . Charles Binning also bought the four merk lands of the Kirklands of Lauder called Over Shielfield and teinds Of ’ n A the samen, which had origi ally belonged to the bbey of D bur h ry g , and at the Reformation had been included in the temporal lordship of Cardross in favour of John Earl of 6 Mar, whose relatives , the Erskines, had been from time

A . immemorial Commendators of the bbey David, second r Lord Cardross, was the son of Hen y Erskine, second son

1 ’ vi s L s Ba nna n ub 352. Col lle etter ( ty e Cl ) , 2 - wic is r o ha nnel i Rev. A h . A a n . 489 91 583 In uisitiones B H to y f C k rk, rc ll , pp , ; q , er k,

No. 22 . 2 4 wi o ha nn i . 61 1 . In uisitiones B No. 192. is r q , er ck, H to y f C elk rk, p 5 - o - 01 Ib. , 1593 1 608 , N . 1462 . R. M . S . , 1 609 20, No . 3 .

156 CHARLES BINNING OF PILMUIR

nk was for many years a director of the Ba of Scotland . He was appointed by the Faculty Of Advocates one of the managers of the Charity Workhouse , and he was an original ’ 1 f trustee of George Watson s Hospital . He helped to rame the original scheme of trust in 1 724 and the revised statutes issued in 1 740 . l 1 06 He married in Ju y 7 Margaret, daughter of Hew 2 Broomla nd s lli Montgomery of , and had one son, Wi am , born A 2 1 1 6 — 1 1 ugust 7 , 7 , and six daughters Jean, born October , 1 09 di n 1 1 710 9 1 71 1 7 , ed Ju e , ; Katharine, born May , 1 71 2 di 9 1 71 3 Barbara, born June , ed February , ; Isobel,

1 2 1 1 . Elizabeth , and Margaret, who was born December , 7 7 Broomla nd s 1 5 Charles Binning died at on September , Of the daughters three only survived him A und . S ec us Katharine (mother of Mrs lexander Monro, ) , who 5 1 738 married on June , David Inglis , afterwards Treasurer 14 1 69 of the Bank of Scotland, and died December , 7 ; 2 n ul 28 3 ( ) Isobel , who died u married on J y , and ( ) l 1 744 his Andr Elizabeth, who married in Ju y as second wife ew D rum ellier Buchanan of p , merchant , who had been Provost of

1 40 - 1 di i in 1 82 Glasgow 7 . She ed at Ed nburgh 7 without

h e s - r issue , having survived r hu band for twenty th ee years .

ni di his The son, William Bin ng , ed before father. He 8 1 739 was admitted an advocate on December , , and in 1 5 i March 7 0 married El zabeth, youngest daughter of Archi f e o . bald Stewart Torranc , Writer to the Signet In order f r nin di to provide o them Mr. Charles Bin g sponed Pilm uir his w his W to son, who went ith ife to live there, but died in A s 1 5 1 nf ugu t 7 , leaving an i ant son, Charles , born March 29 5 di 1 754 . of that year . The child ed in

1 ’ 2 G o Wa son s s i a 1740 Adv. Lib . a m h ts e rge t Ho p t l, ( P p le , E 77 ) . 2 See Ch a pter xvii. 3 a d nia n M u S temb 2 1 1 758 . C le o erc ry, ep er , 4 Edinbu h u a n Au us 2 1 806 . rg Co r t, g t , 5 ’ i a ss v vi. 6 1 . C mpbell s S e on Pa pers (Ad . CHARLES BINNING OF PILMUIR 157 Charles Binning’ s three daughters then succeeded to the u i n n property, but it t rned out that Will am Bin i g had con k 1 76 1 tracted large debts un nown to his father, so in the barony was advertised for sale by the Court at the instance di 1 £1424 . of the cre tors , the rent being stated at Scots It A k i ur was bought by dam Fairholm, ban er in Ed nb gh, 1 770 whose representatives sold it in to James , seventh Earl 2 li ’ of Lauderdale . Wil am s widow moved to a house in St . A ’ nne s Yards near Holyrood, where she lived many years . Charles Binning was granted the Wa llyford arms with a 3 ff r —a r ent a zure di erence in the tinctu es g , on a bend engrailed r a waggon of the first within a bordure e mine.

1 Edinbu h u a n Ma 9 1761 . rg Co r t, y ,

Edinbu h Adv is A i 3 1 770. rg ert er, pr l , 3 Nisb a d 1816 i. 429. et , Her l ry, , CHAPTER XVII

THE MONTGOMERYS OF BROOMLAND S

1 IT . i has already been mentioned that Mrs Charles B nning, Al S ecundus grandmother of Mrs . exander Monro ( ) , was a f B roomla nd Montgomery O s. Broomla nd s and High myre lie on the Annick Water within i Of i A a m le east of the burgh Irv ne in yrshire , partly in Irvine parish and partly in Dreghorn . They belonged of old to the m Of Ha lkh ea d Peebles fa ily, as vassals of the Lords Ross , and were acquired by the Montgomerys at the end of the sixteenth century. Broomla nd s mi fi The fa ly claimed descent from Hew, rst W Earl of Eglinton, through his second son, illiam Mont 2 Greenfield i gomery of , who married El zabeth, elder daughter 3 and heiress of Robert Francis of Stane and Bourtreehill. B roomla nd s These lands lie immediately to the north of , and had been owned by the Francis family prior to illi rinci a ll W am Montgomery, whose p p mansion had ’ Br dis i been at Sanct y Kirk, built Stane Castle , the ru ns of l 1 546 in which stil exist, and died before September , leav g s Ar ur 5 two son , th and Hew, and a daughter Katrine, who A married Hugh, son and successor of dam Wallace of New

A r c o - un . to rthu married Lucy Carnis, daughter and heiress

1 Pa ge 156 . 2 - edi e Ra msa Fa ir a x L n ffi . P gre of y f , yo O ce 2 - a son is or o A shi iii. Pt. 1 275 78. P ter , H t y f yr re, ,

o B o Ga vin R ss S ish R rd 366 862. Prot col ook f o ( cott eco , 5 oco B o Ja m s Ha rla w 96b. Prot l ook f e ,

160 THE MONTGOMERYS OF BROOMLAND S about the middle of the eighteenth century ; and the facts e state d are correct so far as they can be test d . The i longevity of the fam ly is most remarkable . The inscription runs 1 Broomla nd s Here lyes Hugh Montgomery of , who died 1 6 2 A in November 58 aged 9 years . lso Margaret Calder A . oi Broomla nd s wood, his spouse lso George Montgomery ,

6 1 700 86 . Als A their son, who died May , aged o nna Barclay

s . Al and Margaret Wallace , his spou es so Hugh Montgomery r omla nd s fi of B o , his son of the rst marriage, who died December 1 28 83 55th his r 3 , 7 aged years, in the year of ma riage with his n Jean Brown, spouse , and the said Jean Brow , who died A 8 1 28 83 . December , 7 aged years lso Robert Montgomery Br omla nd s di 1 1 1 4 of o , their son, who ed January , 7 0 aged Al Broomla nd 6 3 . s years so Hugh Montgomery of , their ’ i u 24 1 766 80th his son, who d ed Febr ary , , in the year of age . fi l These facts can be ampli ed from the pub ic records, 2 and from the accounts of Robertson and Paterson, which Broomla nd s r are based on the manusc ipt, a genealogical document compiled in the middle of the eighteenth century and now in possession of Lord Eglinton .

GE ORGE MON TG OM E RY ( 16 14 - 1 700) built the mansion- house in 1 663 it has now disappeared. He acquired the property Broomla nd s R ossm ead ow of Over with the pendicle called , formerly pertaining to Hew Montgomery of Over Broomla nd s 1 680 i and Hew his son , and in he disponed the un ted property B roomla nd s his of Over and Nether to Hew, eldest son , 3 reserving his own liferent . He was acting as bailie depute ni 1 669 of the Regality Court of Kilwin ng in , and was suc his H ceed ed by son ew, who acted down to October In 1 690 both father and son were appointed Commissioners

1 a te s n is o A shi iii. P t. 1 27 1 . P r o , H tory f yr re, , 2 A shi Fa mi i s iii. 1 98 se . Su m n . 62 . yr re l e , q pple e t , p 3 5 A shi Sa sin s vol. iv. . 328. u t B R is use yr re e , p Co r ook ( eg ter Ho ) . THE MONTGOMERYS OF BROOMLAN D S 1 6 1 of f r r Supply o Ayrshi e . The burgh accounts of Irvine contain several entries referring to convivial meetings with 1 the magistrates : e. g. 1 — 1 . Ma istra tis 686 . Feb . Item The g with young P ea rstoune B roomla nd s , old , and Bryce Blair and the clerk ’ uth eris fl ve ntis w s and , y py of y ne , and for tobacco , pyp , 9s n 5 9 and aill, , i de 0 0 00 . 1 1 — December 3 . tem The Magistrats being come out of Killwinnin B roomla nd s g with elder and younger, John Hay n of and uther gentlemen, ane py t wyne and for aill tobacco s ffourteen lli 0 1 14 00 and pyp , shi ng . As stated on the tombstone George Montgomery was fi Ann twice married . His rst wife , a Barclay, was a daughter Of P erceton Sir George Barclay of , and by her he had three 1 HE W O E BR O OM LAN D S 2 sons and a daughter, viz . ( ) , , ( ) George , n who married Ja et, daughter of George Garven, writer and ni notary in Irvine and clerk of the bailiery of Cun ngham . 2 r George Montgomery died about 1 68 . George Ga ven was

also a tavern keeper, and his daughter succeeded to the 2 business , and purveyed the refreshments mentioned above . 3 li ( ) Wil am , merchant in Edinburgh , and bailie of the 1 6 city in 87 . hn (i) Jean, who married Jo Montgomery of Bridgend . George Montgomery settled on his second and third sons ill Hi hm re jointly the twenty sh ing lands of g y , which he had 3 r f recently acqui ed rom Mr . Robert Tran . dl 1 655 He married secon y in Margaret Wallace , of the Sh ewa lton family, and by her also he had three sons and a daughter 4 A Assloss ( ) lexander, of , who married Margaret, daughter Al of Kirk tonh olm e of exander Montgomery . He was tacksman l Of i 1 3 of the mil s Ed nburgh in 7 and died on May 0,

1 M unim n s o I vin ii 02 1 2 1 ii 2 1 . 3 3 3. b . 287 30 3 2. e t f r e , , , , 3 1‘ ’ G. R S . A i 13 1653. M is n s Di i na 2498 . , pr l , or o ct o ry, . 5 Edinbu h T s a m n s N v mb 4 1 7 19. rg e t e t , o e er , X 1 62 THE MONTGOMERYS OF BROOMLAN DS

5 hn Auch inh od ( ) Jo , of Wrac , Linlithgowshire , and o , 1 68 Renfrewshire , admitted a Writer to the Signet in 7 , sat in the Scots Parliament 1 704 - 7 as Commissioner for Linlith owshire 1 1689 2 1 696 g , married ( ) , Penelope Barclay ; ( ) , h Janet, daughter of T omas Gray, merchant in Edinburgh ,

1 1 1 25 - died March , 7 , aged sixty two . 6 ur d a u h ( ) James , merchant in Edinb gh , married Mary, g

i . ter of Matthew Stewart of Newton, and d ed without issue r us (ii) Margaret, ma ried her co in , Hugh Montgomery u of Bowho se , and died Without issue .

HEW MON TG OM ER Y of Broomla nd s ( 1645 - 1 728) married

c o - Jean, daughter and heiress of Robert Brown of the Moat, Ca rm elba nk afterwards called in Kilmaurs parish . They

- l are said to have had twenty or twenty one chi dren , of whom sixteen used to sit at table at one time , but only seven are known by name 1 2 ( ) Robert, and ( ) Hew, who succeeded in turn to Broom lands . ’ 3 l r D esbord es s ( ) Wil iam , sometime Cornet in B igadier di r Regiment of Dragoons, who ed at Irvine unma ried on

October 1 729. 4 di A u ( ) George, who ed unmarried in Jamaica in ug st

2 1 1 83 (i) Jean, who died unmarried on September , 7 at the age of ninety.

ARLE S I NN I N G . (ii) MARGARE T (MRS . CH B ) Ann ili di (iii) e, who married Ba e Ker in Irvine, and ed without issue .

Robert Montgomery of Broomla nd s was comptroller of the customs at Irvine . He married Elizabeth , daughter of

1 G a s w T s a m n s A i 15 1730. l go e t e t , pr l , 2 Edinbu h T s a m nts D mb 14 1743. rg e t e , ece er ,

SCOTT PEDIGREE

HEW SCOTT OF SCOTSLOCH I vin P v s f Irvxne 1 616 , r e , ro o t o , d ci ca 1 6 18. . r

' w lerk in bn ela C t B nnin n . m . , g , o gto , etc , gh ter of Willia m Pringle a nd Al

Vov 1 666 . d a u h s . g ter .

6 m of E v w n (1 . Oct. 31 16 9 ord Clei ki u ton d . Dec . 23 1 656 J a s LAUR NCE f Ba ela C k f S ssi g ) , , , e , , o , ler o e o , , , llen Clonbeith and Scotsloch m . nnin n Ma a e d a u h S h n o d T m B m . 1 f B f y, , , o gto , ( ) rg r t, g ter o tep e y o e ple , xc d au h f J hn M is n f a d v a 2 Ma h 1 650 Ca h in d a u h f Ja m s , g ter o o or o o oc te, ( ) rc , t er e, g ter o e e h s ns and one d a u h C k f S ssi n Binnin f Ca rlowrieh a u h . g , t ree o g ter ; ler o e o ; g o g d a u h ir hn Da mah m in f S J . Vi P g ter o o l oy , olet r gle,

five d a u h h e d . Ma h 1 4 h sons a nd s. S 68 . g ter rc , t ree one d augh ter.

Wil ia m f Bavela w ad v a t l o , oc e,

111 . N ov. 1721 Ma d s . ry , el e t d a ugh ter of Willia m Foulis of

dh a ll adv a d . Se . 8 gpp , oc te, p ,

La u n of B v l w ha s a v l w a e a C f B e a f S s G s and 108th F b . A ri 8 re ce , rle o , o cot rey oot , p l ,

b . 1 738 In. Ma h 10 1762 F an s d au h f J hn Vica ra d e , rc , , r ce , g ter o o g .

d . a . Se . 1 755. Attor in Exch e u Wi h issu . S d Ba velaw 1774 d . p p q er, t e ol , CW Cd pggq SCOTT PEDIGREE

Ma a rg ret ,

n a i d . d . u m rr e

Ma i n r a ret r o , g , in 1 a m s in W i ia m Wa la . J S . ( ) e cott . ll l ce wo da u h s f Sh ewalton g ter ; o , 2 Ri h a d a d w ( ) c r L u er t o d aughters. f Ha n o tto , o ne d augh ter.

Ka h a in Ba ba a Ch is ian J a n A nes Eu h a t r e , r r , r t , et, g , p 1 b c l . O b . u 1 6 2 b . Feb 655 t. 1 659 b . Oc 663 Ma ion b . A i 1651 J 5 t. 1 pr l , y , , , , r

in u 6 2 m . 1 6 4 In Fe Hew h d unm . J n 1 8 . b 1 682 In Feb . 1 695 7 . . . e , , , , , Sir R Ho Sir A xa nd Mi h a l Ad a m 1690. oger g le er c e L d Ha rcarse B a nd Lumsd n Fullerton or ) , r e , d of Brandsfield a d vo a of Ba rtonh olm , c te , , W s one d au h . Wi h Issu . d . N ov. 1 695 . S one on. g ter t e , , two sons a nd two d augh ters.

Lau n m e ha n in Gla s w re ce , rc t go ,

b . 169 5, d . Oct . 5 , 1 764.

d ba a Da vi . Ba . Ma a r r rg ret . CHAPTER XVIII

THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW

LIZAB E T TT W f O f li ni E H SCO , i e Sir Wil am Bin ng, was one of Ba vela w wh o t f di the Scotts of , are here ore rect ancestors of the f amily of Professor Alex

ander Monro (S ecundus) . They claimed to have branched off the Scotts of Murd ostoun before the latter family migrated r i from Lana ksh re to the Borders, and in token of the connection they bore the Buccleuch arms diff —or with a erence , on a fess a zure (instead of a bend) a star of six points between two cres fi cents of the eld ; crest, a dexter hand holding a scroll of paper ; i F a cundia fel x . motto , The B a vela w branch can be traced back to Hew Scott of

Sc otsloch at Irvine in Ayrshire . Custum a r of r 1589 He was (collector of customs) the bu gh in ,

Bailie in and Provost in 16 16 . He was also Commis sioner in Parliament in 1 593 and and Commissioner to the Convention of Royal Burghs at various times between

1 M uniments o the R a B u h o I vin ii. 248 . f oy l rg f r e, 2 ’ Th ms n s A ts iv. 6 526 . . R. xi. 56 . o o c , , ; P C ,

1 68 THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW

2 1 1 620 i December , , leav ng a daughter who married Thomas 1 2 Lillia s Cunningham ; ( ) to Scott, by whom he had three —A daughters gnes , who married Captain Brice Blair of in 1 45 B oi s d 6 . B g y , Margaret, who married Mr John leis , d Lillia s a vocate , and , who married Hugh Boyd , merchant 2 in Edinburgh . James Scott died at the end of May 1 636 survived by his 3 wife .

’ Of Hew Scott s three daughters , Margaret, the eldest , continued to live at Sc otsloch and died unmarried Susanna onnet and J married two brothers , James and John Blair respectively . The Blairs succeeded the Scotts as the leading family f r in the municipal a fairs of I vine . i John Blair, the elder brother, was Bail e for several years 1 628 and Provost at his death in October . He and Jounet A 4 . 1 61 8 Scott had two daughters , gnes and Bessie In he 5 was commissioned by the Privy Council to act as one of the inquisitors at the trial of Margaret Barclay and John Stewart , of the Irvine witches, one the most horrible cases in the history of demonology in Scotland .

James Blair was also Bailie, and Provost He 1649 n died about . He and Susan a Scott also had two ’ — M r daughters Agnes and a eone .

John and James Blair were sons of John Blair, merchant f vi A burgess o Ir ne , and grandsons of lexander Blair, the ind ed e goodman of W y g , who was brother german to 1 7 the laird of B air . Their mother was Elizabeth Mure , a kinswoman of the R owa lla n family . There were two other

2 1 - G a s w T s a m n s a nua 9 1 623 . R . M . S . 1 634 51 No. 2 182. l go e t e t , J ry , , , 3 4 G a s w T s a m n s ul 14 1 637 . Ib. ul 23 1629. l go e t e t , J y , , J y , 5 L s C . R. xi. 367 401 Sir a S on D m n o . 307 . P . , , W lter cott , etter e o ol gy, p

A hae o i a ti ns o A shi viii . 75 ix . 1 01 154 . rc ol g c l Collec o f yr re, ; , 7 Li o R b B a i Wodrow S i t . 1 12 . fe f o ert l r ( oc e y) , p THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW 1 69

sons , William , minister of Dumbarton, and Robert, the famous divine ; and two daughters , Marion, who married 1 A Walter Stewart, burgess of Irvine, and gnes, presumably the first wife of James Scott . 1593 Mr. Robert Blair, who was born in , became minister f A dr . o of St . n ews He was one the commissioners sent to f 16 arrange a treaty o peace in 40 between Charles I . and the

1 646 - in- r Scots, and in he was appointed Chaplain ordina y

in 1 666 . hi to the K g. He died in His elder son by s second

rr . vi ni ma iage was Mr Da d Blair, one of the mi sters of Edin Eu h a m A burgh, who married p , daughter of rchibald Nisbet C a r h in P of p , and was the grandfather of Lord resident Blair A nt un of vo o .

1 Archwolo ica l i ns o A shi viii. 1 86. g Collect o f yr re, CHAPTER XIX

LAURENCE OTT or HARPERRIG DIED 163 SC , 7

AUREN E TT L C SCO , elder son of Hew Scott, Provost of Irvine, was apprenticed to Robert Scott of Knightspottie in Perth hir r his s e, the Director of the Chance y, and after death in 1592 r W lli to his stepson and successo , i am Scott of Grange Ard ro 1 i ss. mu r, afterwards of ’ ’ He presented the Custum a rs and Bailies accounts of Irvine to the Exchequer in Edinburgh from and in April 1591 he was conducting an action in Edinburgh for his native town against the unfriem en trubla ris of your ’ 3 m erc a ttis : As , and wrote to the magistrates for my d ebursingis I will superseid the payment th a irof and geving up of my compt till the samyn tak ane end and find me ’ wirdy ane rewa ird with my d epursingis . n 24 The process dragged on for two years , but on Ju e , 1593 he wrote again that he has gottin the gift of your ll unfriem en i c om ositioun bai past the K ng, and p , and that ss na li upoun my great m oya ne very re o b e . Send me the d enuncia tioun executionis fir beirir with the bak with the st , fl or I upoun my h onestie hes prom eist to report bak answer betuix this and the last day of this moneth of Junij with the compositioun of the escheat quhilk lyk wa yes ye sall a send me with your beirar . I pray yow, Siris, be ls di ligent to keip to me as I have bene earnest to keip to yow,

’ 1 - M unimen s o the Bu h o I vin i. 82 R. M . S . 1580 93 No. 1951 S o s t f rg f r e, ; , , ; c t

S a rin S a e o S o tish S a esm n ed . R rs 12 1 . t gge g t t f c t t t e , oge , 2 Ex h u r R s xxii. 92 176. c eq e oll , , 3 Munim n s o the Bu h o I vin n. 30 31 . e t f rg f r e, , 1 70

1 72 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG

161 7 ’ In , shortly before his father s death, he sold the Scotsloch i n hi fee of , the fam ly property at Irvi e , to s brother 1 James . It consisted of a tenement of land in the High Street opposite to the Sea Gate and bounded on the north Scotsloch i li ds east by , and also of the twenty sh l ng lan of a ll wm u G o re. Laurence Scott had alrea dy started to acquire extensive i fi properties in M dlothian. His rst purchase was the estate Har erri t in 1 605 of p g, of which he got a char er May from hi 2 James , second Lord Torp chen . Ha rperrig lies in the parish of Mid ca ld er about twelve mi - les south west of Edinburgh . It is a bare upland moor

900 - about feet above sea level, on the western slope of the n Pentlands . It i cludes the source of the Water of Leith, and now forms part of the catchment area of the reservoir which bears its name . Part of Ha rperrig was included in the barony of Calder l Tem lehill the rest of the lands, cal ed p , had belonged to the ni s ni K ghts Templar , and to their successors the K ghts

hn hi . At Hospitallers of St . Jo at Torp chen the Reformation i d James Sand lands, second son of Sir James San ilands of P Calder, was receptor of Torphichen and head of the Order in Scotland . Making a virtue of necessity he surrendered

to the Crown the possessions of the Order, and for a money consideration was rewarded with a grant to him and his r a ll i hei s of the lands , which were erected nto the temporal his 1 5 9 lordship of Torphichen . On death without issue in 7 his grand- nephew James Sandilands of Calder succeed ed to 3 the title and lands of Torphichen . The Temple lands of Ha rperrig are described a s bounded Leth e m Mered ene by the Water of nse on the north, by the Tem ild ck Burn on the east, and on the west by the p y which

1 A hae o i al le i ns o A shi a nd Ga lowa viii. 21 1 . rc ol g c Col ct o f yr re l y, 2 - R. M . S . , 1609 20, No. 1790 . a ‘ M Ca ll . 143 . is or o the a ish o Midca lder H. B . H t y f P r f , , p LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG 1 73

’ extends from the south to the foresaid Water of Lethensem . They were feued at the Reformation by Lord Torphichen to one Thomas Cant, and remained in the Cant family for n 1 1 602 three generatio s . In John Cant gave seisin to John 2 r Hamilton of Bathgate, who in tu n sold them three years later to Laurence Scott at the same time as the latter bought H r rr the rest of a pe ig . The feudal lands of Ha rperrig lay further to the north ih i Auchinoonhill west K rknewton parish, and consisted of , 3 - Lyden and one third of the runrig lands of Leith sh ea d .

s 4d . Laurence Scott paid Lord Torphichen 3 . annually 1 d . for the Temple lands, and for the rest, together with the usual services . In 1 61 8 he extended his property to the north- east by buying from Sir John Preston of Penicuik the lands of Butela nd s of , lying on the south side the Water of Leith in 4 1 240 the parish of Currie . They extended to Scots acres, and f of Butela ndhill N eth ertoun Overtoun consisted of the arms , , ,

5 - Tem l h n . e ouse . Loanhead, and p There was no ma sion house Butela nd s 14 14 1 3 can be traced as far back as December , , k Al d when the Regent, Robert Du e of bany, granted the lan s A on the resignation of rchibald Earl of Douglas to Margaret , daughter of Sir William de Borthwick and widow of William 6 A B rth ck s l de bernethy . They remained with the o wi til 1 596 , when James, eighth Lord Borthwick, sold them to 7 . h Fentonba rns Mr Jo n Preston of , afterwards Sir John

i of . Preston of Penicu k , President the Court of Session

He in turn sold them to Laurence Scott , who was entered as n di a vassal holdi g rect of the Crown .

1 Ma idm n Ana c a i 397 . e t , le t , . 2 T hi h n ha u a r R b t Hil W. S. . 37 . orp c e C rt l y, o er l , , p

R s on a ish s 1627 Ma it a nd ub . 83 . eport P r e , ( l Cl ) , p 4 - R. M . . 1 S , 609 20, No. 1790. 5 Edi nbu h u a n N v mb 7 1763. rg Co r t, o e er ,

- R. M . S . 1 306 1424 . 2 . , , p 56 7 - Ib. , 1 609 20 , N o . 929. 1 74 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG In March 1 628 Laurence Scott advanced his property a stage nearer Edinburgh , by buying the neighbouring estate a ela w i uik 1 2 of B v in the parish of Pen c , extending to 76 Scots acres and consisting of Easter and Wester Ba vela w with tower, fortalice , manor place, and the right of common m 1 pasturage on the muir of Bale o . The country is of the Ha r erri l same character as p g, but rather ess bleak, and there are plantations of firs and distant views of the lowland

. i di country The old castle , a seventeenth century bu l ng, 2 i Threi m uir still stands overlook ng p reservoir. a a i 1 235 B vel w has a long history . Some time prev ous to it wa s held by Sir Henry [Fairlie] de Brade as part of the 3 i 1 2 royal moor of Pentland . The Fairl es kept it till 4 7, hn r i when Helen, daughter of Jo Fai l e of Braid, brought it as a marriage portion to her husband Henry Forrester of 1‘ Nidd r of Sir i . y, second son John Forrester of Corstorph ne Henry Forrester also owned Auchindinny and part of the

Redh a ll. hn barony of His son Sir Jo , forfeited the lands ‘ B a vela w of by recognition, for having sold the greater ’

n Iv. s mi part of them without Ki g James per ssion, and on

14 15 15 V. October , they were granted by James to Robert ’ 5 Bertoun . , indweller in Leith The Bertouns or Bartons were a famous family of sea 6 111 W . captains in the reigns of James . and James John

Barton, the founder of the family, was a merchant trader in e h e Yellow Ca rvel hi L ith, and commanded t , w ch was called ’ the King s ship and was captured by the English .

I . James V had great ambitions to found a royal navy, An h and John Barton and his sons , drew, Robert and Jo n, 1497 An r were lea ders in his enterprises . In d ew and Robert

1 ’ Th ms n s A s v. 491 . o o ct , 2 cGibbon a nd R ss Cas l a d a nd D m s i A hi e u iii. 531 . Ma o , te l te o e t c rc t ct re, 2 ha ers o d Ba nna t n lub . 45 . C rt f Holyroo ( y e C ) , p 4 R. M . S . , 1424 4 513, No. 74 .

5 - Ib. , 1513 46, No. 46.

Ex h ue R ls xiii. Int . 181 xiv. Int . 93. c eq r ol , r r

LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG 1 75

’ took charge of Perkin Wa rbeck s passage from Ayr to Ireland ’ hi Cuckoo in Robert s s p, the , and in the early years of the sixteenth century the brothers were engaged in clearing the

Scottish coast of Flemish and other pirates, and in carrying out reprisals under letters of marque against Portuguese galleons from Africa and the Indies . These exploits brought them into open conflict with their old enemies the English . In July 1 5 1 1 Robert Barton brought no less than thirteen i A English prizes nto Scottish ports , but a month later ndrew was caught in the Downs by Sir Thomas and Sir Edward l Howard, and was kil ed in the engagement . him 15 1 3 IV . In James fell at Flodden, and with perished all schemes for a Scottish navy . Robert Barton then entered 15 16 the royal service ashore, and was Comptroller from

2 n 1 528 - 29 ra tt to 15 5 , and agai in ane very py and sey ’ him ls . revere comptroller, as James Douglas cal He was u tum a r 15 16 1 525 in 1529 also C s of Edinburgh from to , and

1 530 he was Lord High Treasurer and Master of the Mint . 8 He died in 153 .

Robert Barton became a considerable landowner . In

1 507 he obtained from King James IV . a grant of the lands of di r Over Barnton, inclu ng the village of C amond, and in

1 5 r Ba vela w. 15 , as al eady mentioned, he acquired On 2 1 529 ul January 0, these lands, together with F ford (Wood

h uselee . f o ) , were erected by King James V into the ree barony of Over Barnton in favour of Robert Barton in liferent and hi 1 Robert s son in fee, the charter narrating that the grant was made in consideration of the elder Robert’ s services to the Crown in providing ships at great expense and exposing himself to danger for the defence of the lieges and merchants against English and other pirates .

Robert Barton was succeeded by his son Robert, who took the name of Mowbray on his marriage with Barbara B a m bou le Mowbray, heiress of g , now part of the Dalmeny

1 - 4 o. 01 R. M . S . , 1 513 6, N 8 . 1 76 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG

’ 1 55 estates . On Robert Mowbray s death about 0 the barony di his B a vela w l Ar hi was vided among sons , and fel to c bald,

hi . H 1 557 the t rd son e sold it in to his eldest brother, John , 1 and John sold it to Sir George Dundas of that ilk . It was ’ di r Sir George s eldest son, Sir Walter, who sponed it to Lau ence 1 62 B a vela Scott in 8 . Wester w had been subject to a feu right constituted by John Mowbray in favour of Sir Matthew lli Stewart , whose grandson Wi am , second Lord Blantyre , renounced it when the rest of the property was sold to r Lau ence Scott . ’ r ll Laurence Scott s next pu chase fo owed closely . On r 19 1 629 Februa y , he bought from the Earl of Lauderdale 2 the ten pound lands of Bonyngton (Bonnington) with

- fish in s mansion house and g , in Ratho parish, Midlothian. It wi marches th the property of Hatton, and is a couple of miles u n north of B tela d s . The house stands on a ridge with a fine ll view of the Forth va ey. nn Mont om eries s Bo ington was a possession of the g , Earl m l 1 3 1 . of Eg inton, from 7 , when Robert granted it to Sir 3 Ersk ne Hugh de Eglinton on the resignation of Sir Robert de y , u 1 61 3 Al i o ntil , when exander, sixth Earl of Egl nt n, sold it Th irlesta ne e fi to John Lord , aft rwards rst Earl of Lauder

it . dale , who sold three years later to Laurence Scott It

was held blench of the Crown . Laurence Scott completed his purchases on this side of the Pentlands by acquiring from James Hamilton of Kil ra ck m onth L m h o in Ma llen b the lands of Easter y p y, adjoin g y f 4 in the parish o Currie . They appertained of auld to the e t P reben a rie Ch a la nes ni P rov is , d and p of the Tri ty Colledge ’ 5 1526 A r of Edinburgh, and were leased in to James be nethy

1 - - 4 0 os. 55 1 64 3016 . R. M . S . , 1513 46, N o. 1954 ; 15 6 8 , N 3 , 6 , 2 - Ma cGibbon a nd R ss as a ed a nd D m s i R. M . S . 1 620 33 No. 1 374 , , ; o , C tell t o e t c

A hi u v. 54 408. rc tect re, , 8 - 09- 20 No 876 R. M . S . 1 0 1424 84 Nos. 1 6 . . , 3 6 , p. , ,

1‘ Edinbu h T s a m n s F b ua 9 1 664 . rg e t e t , e r ry , 5 R o s on a ish s Ma i a nd ub . 60. ep rt P r e ( tl Cl ) , p

1 78 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG

Ha r Edinburgh . It is similar in character to perrig and Ba ela v w, and the resemblance now goes so far that there

are reservoirs in this district also . It is mentioned in the records as early as when it r B sset B ss t was in possession of Ch istian y , widow of John y e

erk in ton. of Cl g It next passed to their son Walter, and in

1 368 King David I I. made a grant of the lands in favour of 1424 Sir Archibald de Douglas . In they were given to Sir 2 John Forrester of Corstorphine , Chancellor of Scotland, Ar on the resignation of chibald Earl of Douglas, and were hi included by annexation in the barony of Corstorp ne , which was erected next year. The lands remained with the Forresters until they were sold to Laurence Scott two centuries later. Frierton was a small piece of land on the east slope of i P a ties ll the Pentlands ly ng into Hi , between Nine Mile mi Burn and Carlops . It is not more than a couple of les Ha r erri B a vela w from the boundary of p g and , and once more — — there is a reservoir the North Esk close by. in 1 2 It was originally a grant by King Robert III . 39 to the Abbey of Holyrood for the salvation of his own soul A 3 and those of his queen nnabella and their eldest son David. ’ n A i It was an exed to the bbey s barony of Broughton, wh ch was primarily the land upon which the New Town of Edin di burgh is built, but also included lands in other stricts . James Forrester of Corstorph ine obtained a feu of Frierton A s 25 1 537 a s from the Abbey on ugu t , , and the grant w con

A 1 6 - firm ed by Crown charter on pril , The feu duty was twelve merks . After the Reformation the barony was acquired by Sir

Lewis Bellenden, Lord Justice Clerk, whose grandson, Sir

1 har ula o N ewba ttle Ba nna t ne lub . 292. C t ry f ( y C ) , p

2 - 424 151 No. 7 17 . R. M . S . , 1 3, ,

2 - 1424 . 205 No. 26 . I b. , 1 306 , p ,

- 223 Ib. , 15 13 46, No. 3 . LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG 1 79

li 1 62 fir Wil am , sold it in 7 to his uncle, Robert , st Earl of 1636 f Roxburghe . In , two years a ter Laurence Scott bought Frierton ni , the superiority and remai ng lands in the barony of Broughton were bought by the trustees of George Heriot’ s

Hospital .

Laurence Scott experienced some of the trials of the laird . 5 1 628 1 On May , he petitioned the Privy Council against B a vela w James Greg and three other men in , who daily come ’ to the complainer s lands , and to the oastler houses within wh a ir l i t m e the same , they y day and night spend ng the y in r r ott everie h a vein d inking and y , and ane of thame g with d o es h a c uebutt thame lying gg and netts with ane long q , and whan they have done with thair drinking they a ll concurring ’ togidd er goes athort my bounds and other gentlemen s bounds nixt a rtlie h a c uebutt adjacent, and p with a long q and with thair lying d ogges and netts they take and slay all kynde of m urefowle find n that they can within our bou ds, and caries the same in to the oastler houses and sellis and drink is the m ne es th a ir f u a lto idd er o y o at thair pleas re , and they live g as ydle va ga bound s without anie trade calling or la ughfull ’ n B a villa w industrie . Moreover they went to the ho s of wh a ir I had raised twa turrets upoun the entrie th a irof and ledd ered covered the heads of the same with leid , and the u a nd w saids t rrets , rave do n and tooke away with thame the most pairt of the leid being upoun the saids turrets for making ’ u utt of bulletts and dra ppes to thair h a c q eb s . The petition was granted by being endorsed with the usual formula F ia t ’ ui ur petit . Laurence Scott was on terms of intimacy and confidence with the Buccleuch family. He was one of the commissioners 1 2 fir appointed in 6 9 by Walter, the st Earl, to manage the 2 estates during his absence at the wars in the Netherlands . W 1633 i Earl alter, who died in November , nom nated him and

1 C . E. 2nd S i s 11 . 589. P. , er e , 2 The S o s o Buc uch Sir Wm . F a s i. 256 261 264 275 n. 269. c t f cle , r er, , , , 1 80 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG his his eldest son William to be tutors to children, and at the ’ Earl s funeral at Hawick seven months later Laurence Scott

carried his coat of honour, William Scott his standard, and rum h eon James Scott, the second son, carried the grate g p ’ ut of black tafta one the pointe of lance s a ble. Laurence Scott seems to have taken special charge of ’ young Earl Francis s pocket money, and the following letter ’ him : to is extant, written in the boy s ninth year

ST LOVE IN G T R —M rem emberit MO TU O , y love being to lea sur you and your wife . Ye shall doe me the p as to cause send some m oneyes heir to me again Hansel Monday that I may gra tifie my master and other servants . It sall please n you also to send furth ane pair of sweet gloves . So hopi g

- ll re ueist . I freind ye wi obey me in this q rest, your loving ,

Mu m 31 D mb 1635 . , ece er

In 1 634 Laurence Scott was appointed to the Commission dl 1 of the Peace for Mi othian, an institution which had been i VI . introduced from England by K ng James He had not, however, always been on the side of law and order. On

14 1 61 7 - in- November , he and his son law James Scott were committed by the Privy Council 2 to the Castle of Edinburgh ’ during their Lordships pleasure for an assault upon a certain

James Harper. Harper had been given the escheat of the goods of one Gawane Scott after an action with Laurence a ne ua ntitie and James Scott, and hearing that grite q of u di An r the g i s were in the house of d o Law, he went there , i sou it w fl but m ssing him , stayed and p with his y , being ’ rem a init us ll his inc ein resolvit to have in the ho e ti om g. Th e defenders not onlie stayed the said Andro fra comeing s ni a ccum anied i f ve to hi house that cht, bot thay, p w th y or ersonis i l sex p bod n in feir of weir [in war ike array], come to

1 2 . E 2nd Se i s v. 378 . Ib. xi. 263 . P . C . , r e , ,

182 LAURENCE SCOTT OF HARPERRIG survived till November when she must have been a very old woman . h W l A REN E II They had t ree sons, il iam , James and L U C ( ) , and five daughters 1 ( ) Marion, the eldest, married James Scott, brother of Kni h ts ottie cotsta rvit John Scott of g p and S , Director of the : Chancery, and had two daughters , Elspeth and Jean she r afte wards married Richard Lauder of Halton or Hatton, nl 1 8 1652 and their o y child, Elizabeth, married on November ,

Charles , third Earl of Lauderdale . 2 A 26 1622 ( ) Margaret, married (contract dated ugust , ) 2 ll l h a lt Wi iam Wal ace of S ew on near Irvine . 3 A 1622 P nl ( ) gnes, married in atrick Ki och, advocate , Ald erston Mid c a ld er Westc a ld er of between and , and had 3 seven children . ‘ 1- 4 Ba lbirnie . ( ) Jean, married James Clerk of 5 A r 1 6 10 ( ) lison, bo n June , married Peter Houston ,

apparently a younger son of Sir Patrick Houston of that ilk . r 5 Lau ence Scott left a will, made a few days before his his death . He had provided for his sons by a division of 1000 heritable properties, and to his daughters he left merks fif ‘ each ; to Margaret, his eldest sister, ty pounds for hir i d ewtie Lochla nd s al ment, as for the of the Loch and called ’ Sc otsloch l a nd n r y beside Irvi g, and to his two other siste s leive di 300 merks each . I to such poore of E nburgh as leissis p my said executors [his sons] to make choice of, the sume of 500 merks : I leive to the Town of Edinburgh for i n 500 d el vered bu ldi g of the Kirks merks, to be y as the Good ’ Town of Edinburgh sall think good . n His movable a ssets consisted mai ly of farm stock, and

1 B s o S d un vol. 6 u 9 1661 G ia s R is o In e m n s. ook f e er t, , J ly , reyfr r eg ter f t r e t 2 - R. M . S . , 1620 33, NO . 1 043 . 3 ‘ His o M idca lder . B. M Ca ll . 89. tory f , H , p

G. R S vol 44 . . , . 42, p. 7 . 5 Edinbu h T s a m n s F brua 9 1 664 . rg e t e t , e ry , THE SCOTTS OF CLERKINGTON 1 83 among debts owing was the year’ s rent for his house in

£240 £100 . Edinburgh , and for his writing chamber

di of ll In the stribution the property, Wi iam Scott, the Clerk in ton Frierton L m h o eldest son, got g , , and Easter y p y. He was appointed a Clerk of Session and of Parliament 1 64 in and was knighted in 1 . When the Civil War l f 1644 broke out he took the Par iamentary side, and rom 64 i 2 to 1 9 was on the Committees of War for M dlothian . He was rewarded in 1 646 with a grant from the Commissioners

n - £65 10 of Excise of the an ual rent on , but he complained to n Parliament in 1 649 that nothi g had yet been paid . Al though he had never been an advocate , he was appointed his a Lord of Session by the Estates of Parliament, taking 8 1 649 Clerkin ton 2 seat on June , with the title of Lord g one of a batch of furious asserters of their [the Estates’ ] ’ way, replacing so many of the Lords of the Session who hi 4 were tainted with the crime of loyalty and were cas ered. 1 649 He had also a seat in Parliament from , as Commissioner fi i hi l rst for Hadd ngtons re and afterwards for Mid othian, and he acted as principal clerk to the Committee of Estates, i 1 652 sign ng several proclamations in that capacity. In he lost his Official positions when the Scottish institutions l 23 1656 were swept away by Cromwel , and on December , 5 nl D i r he died very sudde y . Nicoll records in his a y : Sir ll Clerk in toune k n cht Wi iame Scott of g , y , ane of the lait Lordis of Sessioun in the lait kingis tym e and a verry guid ff ’ d e a irtit l . judge, p this y of apoplexie Lord Clerkington greatly increased his property in Currie ri L m h o Ma llen Ha rla w pa sh by getting feus of Wester y p y, y, ,

1 - 4 1 Ind x fiiciorum . R. M S . 1 63 5 O . , , e 2 ’ Th ms n s A s VI . i. 200a 5616 813a VI . 11 . 187a 358. o o ct , , , ; , 2 B s o S de un vol. v. un 8 1 649. ook f e r t, , J e , 2 is o o S o ish A a i s b Mr. a m s ils n Li a Soc . rth H t ry f c tt ff r , y J e W o ( ter ry of Pe , p. 70. 5 ’ Ba nna t e C ub . 188 Ba i i s L t rs Ba nna t ne ub iii. 367 ( y l ) , p ll e et e ( y Cl ) , . 184 THE SCOTTS OF CLERKINGTON

C r w and the Kirklands of u rie from the Good To n of Edinburgh, inl l A dr 1 and a feu of K eith from the Co lege of St . n ews . : fi He was twice married ( rst) to Katharine , daughter of P reston ra n e John Morison of g g , and (secondly) to Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy of Dalmahoy, knight, who survived him and died in March His first family were 2 1 1 622 ( ) Laurence , who was born in September , and suc ceed ed Clerk in ton Frierton to g and , which he had to surrender on an apprising in Clerk ington afterwards became t r par of the Rosebe y estates . Laurence Scott married Helen ’ di r 1 6 5 Dalmahoy, his stepmother s sister, who ed in Februa y 7 , leaving two daughters but no sons .

2 1 623 . ( ) Bessie , born September 3 l Clonbeith ( ) Wil iam , who succeeded to , which his father 1 650 ns bought in from his cousi , the daughters of James 5 Scott . He married Margaret Ker, but died without issue . 4 W n 1 632 his ( ) alter, who was born in Ju e , and succeeded l brother Wi liam in and also died without issue . He sold Clonbeith in 1 694 . His second family were 5 1 638 ( ) Barbara, who was born in January , and married Sir William Drummond of Hawthornden in April 6 A H ( ) gnes , who is said to have married Sir John ome 2 of Renton .

(7) John, who inherited the lands in Currie parish and Ma llen founded the family of the Scotts of y, who held this 2 A 1 88 . s property until , when it was sold to Lord Rosebery

1 - R. M . S 1 634 51 , No. 1 792 . 2 The Fa mi o Da mah Th m a s Fa n . 9. ly f l oy, o lco er, p 2 Edinbu h T s a m n s A i 22 1 657 . rg e t e t , pr l ,

4 - R. M . S . , 1 652 59, No. 621 . 5 - 1 1 2 1 Ib. , 1 634 5 1 , Nos. 60 , 82 .

t 4 . Inquisi iones, Ayr, 68 7 dinbu h M a ri R s E rg r age egi ter . 2 D u a s Ba na . 218. o gl , ro ge, p

1 86 TH E SCOTTS OF BONNINGTON

’ t e 1 did m . H y e survived the Restoration, but not regain his office in fact he was fined £1 200 for taking the Parliamentary 2 side in the Civil War. V P 1 He married iolet ringle before December , ‘ and had three sons who succeeded to Bonnington in turn 1 il 1 di 675 . G bert, who ed in March , Charles, and James He l a so had a daughter Catherine .

1 ’ Thoms n s A s VI. ii. 548 o ct , . 3 Ib. , vii. 421b. 2 G. R. vol 29 . 284 S . , . , p . In uisitiones Edinbu h 12 16 1 281 In uisitiones Genera tes 6 179 S rvi es o q , rg , , ; q , ; e c f

- H i s 1700 1709. e r , CHAPTER XX

LAURENCE SCOTT OF BA 1 VELAW, DIED 669

’ A REN E TT II Ha r erri s L U C SCO ( ) , p g youngest son, was with his n brothers trai ed to the law . ’ B a vela w Butela nd s On his father s death he got , and 1 Ha r erri w p g, but was always kno n by the first of these r properties, as it was the most impo tant, and included the

- mansion house . Like his father he was the trusted friend and adviser of 2 n the Buccleuch family . He and his brother Clerk ingto i were among the twelve tutors , heads of the var ous Scott families, who were appointed by Earl Francis to act for his two daughters, and the position proved troublesome and fi dif cult . l The young Countess Mary, who was on y four years old ’ 165 1 at her father s death in , at once became the centre of intrigues for her hand, and dissensions arose among the

- n tutors . The south cou try Scotts ranged themselves against ul the Scotts of the Lothians , and neither side co d get a ’ i Clerkin ton s working majority, unt l g death turned the scale

- in favour of the south country faction . They secured the custody of the charter chests , and played into the hands of r the Earl of Tweeddale , who was working to a range a marriage between the young Countess and Walter Scott, son of Gideon ’ Hi es er h ch t . Ba ela w s Scott of g , one of the tutors v consent was at length obtained, and he was present at the marriage,

1 ’ Thoms n s Ac s v. 49la In uisitiones Edinbu h 1 18 1 . o t , ; q , rg , 2 Sco s o Bu c uch Sir Wm . F a s i. 313 342 350 402 se . 412 tt f c le , r er, , , , q , 188 LAURENCE SCOTT OF BAVELAW which was celebrated with great secrecy at the Church of 1 Th e Wemyss . bride was not twelve years old . N o years later she died, and the intrigues were at once

u Ann . A renewed ro nd the younger sister, Countess a formidable competitor was put forward in the young Duke IL of Monmouth , a natural son of Charles , and the tutors s in 1 663 having given their con ent, the marriage took place n just after the Cou tess had completed her twelfth year. Laurence Scott was one of the signatories to the marriage contract, and was nominated by the Countess to be one of her curators . r Lau ence Scott was a supporter of Presbyt erianism, h l er 2 sea t o d . and was a in the Tron Church, Edinburgh During the Civil War he and his brother Clerk ington were r active on the side of Parliament and the Covenant, and we e nominated by the Estates to serve on the Committe es of War each year from 1 64 6 to In 1646 he was granted an annual - rent on but like his brother he complained 1 649 to Parliament in that nothing had been paid . At the Restoration he was appointed by Sir Archiba ld P 4 rimrose , Lord Clerk Register, to be a Clerk of Session, and occupied the office till his death . In 1661 an annuity of

was voted to the King , and Laurence Scott was one of the Commissioners of Excise charged with raising the 5 quota of the tax laid upon the county of Edinburgh . Two years later he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the county. H did e not, however, escape punishment for his exertions on behalf of the Covenanters , for among the exceptions from the Act of Indemnity of 1 662 in so far as may concern the —Mr payment of the sum s underwritten are . Laurence

1 Teviotda le a nd the S ot s o Bu u h . R . iv . 316 . Upper c t f ccle c , J Ol er, p 2 But er is o o the T n . 154 . l , H t ry f ro , p 2 ’ Thoms n s A s vi. 562 a 813 a vi. 30 b 187 a 358. o ct , ( ) , ( ) ( ) , ( ) , 4 ’ B s o S d un vi. un 5 1 661 Th ms n s A s vii. A . 5 . ook f e er t, J e , o o ct , pp 5 ’ Th ms n s Ac s Vii. 90 a 504 b . o o t , ( ) , ( )

1 90 LAURENCE SCOTT OF BAVELAW

The second Mrs . Scott survived her hus band for many i 1 03. All years, and was al ve in 7 that is recorded of her

- in- Al ul is that her son law, Sir exander Brand, successf ly sued one James Marshall for slander in having said that he 1 l his - in- (Brand) had cal ed mother law a witch . five Of the daughters of the second family,

1 A 1 65 1 i d 1 690 . ( ) Katharine, born pril , d ed unmarrie after 2 1 652 1 682 ( ) Barbara, born July , married in June , as the . his Ha rca rse second of three wives , Sir Roger Hog (Lord ) , a i nl Lord of Session, and d ed within three years leaving an o y

ll . child, Barbara, who married Wi iam Robertson of Ladykirk 3 1 655 1 6 4 ir ( ) Christian, born February , married in 7 S Al Bra nd sfield . exander Brand of , and had a large family 4 1 659 1 682 ( ) Janet, born October , married in February i 1 701 in h a d M chael Lumsden , advocate , and died before , hav g — A 1685 A i two sons Charles, born ugust , and George, born pr l

1 688 - , who both died young and two daughters , Katharine, l B a lm uto and who married David Boswel of , Barbara, who ’

n r . died u ma ried . Mr Lumsden s grandfather, father and t brother were successively ministers of D uddings on. 5 A 1 663 1 6 ( ) gnes , born October , married on February , 1 B a rt nh lm 695 A . S . o o u dam Fullarton, W , of , a property j st di 1 09 north of Irvine . He ed in 7 , and their only son, Captain 2 i l ul di u . W l iam F larton, ed nmarried

’ During the hundred years after Laurence Scott s death u B a vela w passed through eight hands . La rence the eldest Al son, who succeeded him , was married at nwick on January 1 6 16 0 nl , 7 to Margaret , o y child of John Maxwell, eldest son 2 h ad of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood. She had an unh appy upbringing her father had been guilty of scandalous

1 Edinbu h ommissa ia R o ds nsist ial ss s Scot. R ord rg C r t ec r , Co or Proce e ( ec

No. 1 1 7 .

’ 2 M ris n Di i na a m b s S s si n a s Ad v. vol. vi. Nos. 5 a nd 7 C p ell e o P per ( o o , ct o ry, 4 p. 3 20 . 2 M axw s o lo Sir Wm . F a se 1. 483. ell f Pol k, r r, THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW 1 91 ill- treatment of her mother, and was denounced as a rebel in consequence . ’ Laurence Scott s marriage turned out unhappily. He 1 676 i nf had no family, and in his w fe proved u aithful and 1 left him . He thereupon divorced her . She was alive in 2 168 . It may well be that she had great provocation , for he figures in the records of Penicuik kirk session and l t Da keith presby ery as a contumacious resister of discipline . An 28 1 679 entry in the session record on July , , the year of f B el his a v a w £28 8s . death, runs Received rom the sum of , i n f penalty for his s ns , he havi g be ore this for a considerable ’ fi Ha erri period de ed the Presbytery and Session. rp g was hi sold about t s time .

l - l IV His ha f brother, Wil iam ( ) , who succeeded, obtained 9 16 9 2 on October , 7 a charter under the Great Seal erecting the lands of B a vela w and B utela nd s into the free barony of

B a vela w. 1 7 1684 He was admitted an advocate on March , , was appointed a Commissioner of Supply in and died

in - without issue March aged forty two . B a vela w passed to his brother Charles (V) , who generously i carried out a provision, wh ch William had intended to fi e 5 4000 v . make, of merks for his sisters He also was a Commissioner of Supply in 1 690 and He married his Ma llen Barbara Scott , a daughter of cousin, John Scott of y, and had three sons, John, William, and Laurence . She sur vived him 6 1 709 , and on September , married Mr . Walter

- . i l n Stewart, Solicitor General She d ed in Ju y leavi g Ann a daughter by her second husband, e, who married Colin ur n Macla i , the famous professor of Mathematics .

1 C ommissa riot o Edinr. nsisto ia esses No. 1 8 S t . R rd f , Co r l Proc , ( co eco 2 Vol. 63, F0 ] . 5 1 . 2 ’ Th ms n s A s viii. 610 a . o o ct , ( )

Edinbu h T s a m n s N v mb 17 1691 . rg e t e t , o e er 5 ’ a m b s S ssi n a rs Adv. Lib . vol. Vi. Nos 5 a nd 7 . C p ell e o P pe ( , . 5 ’ Th ms n s A s ix 137 a x. 28 b . o o ct , . ( ) ; ( ) 7 Edi u h T n 0 1 nb s a m s Ma h 2 753. rg e t e t , rc , 1 92 THE SCOTTS OF BAVELAW

di 1 701 - Charles Scott ed in December aged thirty three, B a vela w fi n VI i and went rst to his eldest son, Joh ( ) , who d ed 1 03 li in July 7 , and then to the second son, Wil am ( VII ) . r n hi Lau e ce , the t rd son , was a merchant in Glasgow, and

. 5 cashier there to the Royal Bank He died on October , 1 64 n 7 , in his seventieth year, leavi g a son , Charles, and a daughter, Barbara . ll i ul 6 1 1 Wi iam Scott was adm tted an advocate on J y , 7 7, 1 72 1 and married in November Mary, eldest daughter of 1 F oulis W d William of oo hall, advocate , by whom he had four sons and three daughters . He had been elected a member A 1 12 ul 1 3 of the Royal Company of rchers in 7 . In J y 7 7 he bought at a judicial sale the estate of Kersla nd in the parish 2 A hi —a hi of Dalry, yrs re property w ch had been possessed n ni r u by the Kers si ce the begin ng of the thi teenth cent ry,

in il . n 1 40 held ward of the Egl ton fam y In the wi ter of 7 , during a time of scarcity, William Scott provided a supply of corn to be sold to the people on his property at a low 2 1‘ Th e Ca ledonia n M ercur in his rate . y, notifying sudden 8 1 4 1 hi death in Edinburgh on September , 7 , describes m as r un l a gentleman of great sobriety and ve tue, and iversal y ’ esteemed . B a vela w once more passed through the hands of three ill II I brothers in turn . W iam (V ) , the eldest son, who was 5 under the tutorship of his uncle Laurence , died on March , r 1 x i 1 55 1 747 Lau ence ( ) , the second son, d ed in September 7 5 x on A i 8 aged eighteen ; and Charles ( ) , who was born pr l ,

38 fin l . i 1 7 , al y succeeded The rest of the fam ly of William Foulis Scott and Mary were a son David, and three daughters, f A in n Barbara, Mary (wi e of ndrew Home, merchant Wi dy

ul . gho ) , and Margaret

1 hn Foulis o Sir J S t. His . lxix Account Book f o ( co t p. . 2 ’ - ssi n a s Ad v K 1 a mi on G d n s S . lst Ser. 2 1 . H lt or o e o P per ( , , 2 Cu i Kirk S ssi n R c rds D mb 28 1740 . rr e e o e o , ece er , 2 temb 10 1741 . Sep er , 5 dinbu h C u a n S temb 4 1755 . E rg o r t, ep er ,

BOYD PEDIGREE

D r THOMAS BOY o Krrrs,

d . Oc t. 1 575.

JAM ES or KIPPS R b . Wil iam . Ma a . , o ert l rg ret in Ma i n d a u h f Ri ha d Ca mi ha . r o , g ter o c r r c el

f Aithernie d J a nua 1 594. o , ry i

Rob f s ad a J h n STEPHE N OF TEMPLE Bai i f Ed in Ma i n Ki v . ert o p , oc te , o , l e o r o ,

b . 1575 d . ul 10 1645 m . F a n is C kbu n , y , , r c oc r

m . eilles Bor T m G g. of e ple.

a b a 1 is ian hn a i i Edin a m s T m e (1 MARGAR ET Ma . J n. 606 Ch J B f J f . rgo ret, , r t , o , l e o e o e pl , ,

l m in Wi i a b u h 1 6 1 663 and Ma h 1 6 4 m . 1 641 m A REN d Ju 1 . . m 60 7 . L U CE . y ll rg , , rc , , ‘ M n i 16 6 m Ma a Anna d au h e SC D a vid b h 0 1 Sir h 7 . f OTT , rot er o te t , rg ret , g t r o J a m es Sibba d f f Cam b K i h wid w f Wi ia m H n s n of Bavela w l o o er. e t , o o ll e ry o .

a nk ei llor A drew S vin d . f Gra ntoun. R . te , o

1 6g7.

Sir Rob Sibba ld 1 641 Ma a m . Se . 4 1670 E i ab h (1. 1686 Anna 111 . A exa nd e ert ( rg ret, p , , l z et , , , l r

P sid n Ro a Sir J a m s Foulis h i d m . J am s S S m sone m h an re e t y l e , t r e cott, y p , erc t - Colle e f Ph si ia ns Ba . f C in n Lo d Sh iff C k f bu ss f Ed inbu h . g o y c , rt o ol to ( r er ler o rge o rg d i bu h Fi s Pro Reidfoord Edinbu h E n . . rg , r t ) rg fea sor of Medicine in i bu h nwersxt Ed n rg U y. CHAPTER XXI

THE BOYDS OF KIPPS

T EP EN B OY D S H of Temple , whose daughter married Laurence of B a vela w n Scott , was the you gest son of James Boyd of l hi 1 Kipps , Lin ithgows re . The Kipps family are evidently descended from the M Boyds of Kilmarnock . In an heraldic S . , of date about 1600 vi and attributed to Sir Da d Lindsay the younger, there is a note opposite the blazon of Lord Boyd in a contemporary 2 B a nh ea th Ki is Bonsch a w P enk fll hand Lairds—of , pp , , , the Th roch rig e vidently indicating that they are the and hi f cadet branches . James Boyd s father are o ten found i 3 in close association with Robert, f fth Lord Boyd ; and of B a d inh ea th of Robert Boyd , brother the sixth Lord Boyd, his 16 1 1 n in will made in , appoi ts his cousin Mr. Robert i 4 Boyd of K pps to be one of his executors . It seems most probable that this branch descended from a younger son of

Al . exander, third Lord Boyd i M AS D K pps was acquired by THO BOY , who was one of ’ the commissioners for Torphichen parish at John Knox s 5 fi e A f rst G neral ssembly of the Re ormed Church, which 20 1 560 B ook met on December , and drew up the famous o Dis i line 1 568 f c p . In he appears along with his son James among the followers of Robert Lord Boyd at the battle of

1 o Guild Register f Edinburgh . 2 S dda S o ish A ms ii. 283. to rt , c tt r , 3 G a s w o s vii. No. 2090 x . No. 3085 . l go Protoc l , ;

a s n is o o A shi 1842 ii. 520 P ter o , H t ry f yr re, , . 5 B o the niv sa Ki Ba nna n ub . 4 . ooke f U er l rk ( ty e Cl ) , p 196 THE BOYDS OF KIPPS

n Langside , where they fought for Queen Mary agai st the

Regent Moray and were defeated . 1 5 1 f in ’ 1 In 7 ather and son received the K g s pardon, and next year they obtained from Lord Torphichen a grant of the liferent and fee respectively of the three merk lands of nfi t i Kipps . The grant was co rmed by a char er of K ng

VI . 1 3 James on February , 15 5 Thomas Boyd died in October 7 , and was buried in AM E S Torphichen church . He left three sons , J his successor, ll Robert, and Wi iam , and a daughter, Margaret .

AM E Y D J S BO had been in the service of Lord Torphichen, and the feu charter of Kipps bears to have been granted partly for good service and partly for a money consideration . 3 Sir Robert Sibbald says : I have seen the copie of a Commission to be B a live by James Lord Torphichen to James i for i Boyd of K pps and his Heirs , all the Temple Lands with n f ’ the bounds o Angus and Fife for nineteen years .

Kipps is described in the charter as a three merk land, l n with the grain mil of the barony of Torphiche , together with the astricted multures of all grain grown on the lands of the of M lnhill said barony, and with the piece land called y and ’

i n . the k l built on it, all as occupied by the said Thomas Boyd

- w 40 lin for £24 14 . The feu duty as shil gs Kipps and , s Scots

l ul ur vi . for the mi l and m t es , with the usual ser ces Cockleroi Kipps , now a ruin, lies on the southern slope of ocklernie l or C Hill, about three miles south of Lin ithgow

- Ma c ib on r hi . G b and a mile no th east of Torp chen and Ross , 4 who give a plan and illustration of the house, say The u u b ilding is a ga nt narrow oblong house, extremely plain , but it may be regarded as a good specimen of the kind of

1 ‘ ’ b M s a n B d a s i. 29. R. M . S . 15468 0 No. 1 969 Abb s d u i , , ; ot for Cl cell y, oy P per , 2 R. M . S . , 1 546 80, No. 2 186. 3 is o o the Sher dom o Lin i h w . 24 . H t ry f ifi f l t go , p

as la d a nd D m s i A chi e u iv. 14. C tel te o e t c r t ct re,

1 98 JAMES BOYD OF KIPPS

Th e House is at a miles distance from any other Seat f l wi of the Gentry, so that it is a per ect So itude , and thout of Art the Ornaments , which other Seats have , but has

“ ’ many commendable advantages by Nature s Free Gift . There is at the end of the Inclosure of the Kipps an ancient Altar of several great Stones so placed that each e l of them does support another, and not one of th m cou d stand without the support of the other : the broad Stone , fi upon which the Sacri ce was offered, looks to the South near to this Altar is a Circle of Stones with a large Stone A or two in the middle this was a Temple in ncient Times , and our word Kirk is from Circus, the round position of the ’ Stones . In 1 573 Lord Torphichen was summoned before the Privy Council on the charge of having retained certain articles of furniture and ane coffer full of buik is belonging to the 1 f Crown . He admitted having received them , and pro essed his willingness to restore them : at the same time he pled l that they had been given to him by Queen Mary, and cal ed nn James Boyd of Kipps as a witness . Thomas Bi ing of a rlowrieh a u h C g was also cited . James Boyd deponed that he wes d esirit be my Lord Torph ech en to pas to Lochlevin ub obtenit q air the Queen then wes , and fra hir a precept to Servie to be a nsuerit of sic thingis as m ych t serve to my ’ of oh nnes c om m oditie disea sit Lord Saint J , being then and ’ lying in the Abbay . Some time before 1567 James Boyd had left the service ’ d uelt . of Lord Torphichen, and with my Lord Boyd In 1 569 he and his master were witnesses to a commission by l 2 the Queen for procuring a divorce from Bothwe l, and in the spring of 1 571 he was sent to Sheffield to render compt f 3 4 of some af airs to the Queen . He was a witness to the

1 I nv n o i s o the R a Wa d b Th s. Th m s n . 192 . e t r e f oy l r ro e, o o o , p 2 3 M o a a nda o S ish a s iii. 493 531 . N a i na SS . S nd iii. 59. t o l f cotl , C le r f cott P per , , 4 The M ont om eri es Ea s o E in n Sir Wm . F a s ii. 216 . g , rl f gl to , r er, JAME S BOYD OF KIPPS 199

’ marriage contract of Lord Boyd s daughter to Hugh , after of 1 589 wards fourth Earl Eglinton, and in he stood surety that Lord Boyd would not harm a certain George Cunningham 1 1582 f find in Gogar . In he himsel had to caution of £500 ressett intercom m oun not to , supplie nor be word or write with any of the d ecla irit tra touris forfa ltit and now ’ remaning furth of this realm . James Boyd made two appearances in the Court of 2 20 1589 d ela tit Justiciary. On May , he was along with Thomas Master of Boyd and four other persons of the sla uch ter of um qle John Mure in the Well c omm ittit near Prestwick in the moneth of August The complaint 3 t set forth that the accused w c onvoca tioun of or lea gis nwmber sex tene ersounis th rb a ll boid in to the of p or y, in wt i s eiris secreitis steilb onnetis swordis feir of weir jack s , p , , , c ulwerin is d u is istolettis ex resslie rohibeit lang g , gg and p p p to be borne worne usit or schot in the moneth of August zeir of a vc lx x zeiris h a ifin c oncea vit the God j j j , g ane d eidlie a a nis um Ie Jh onne feid rancor and malice g the said q , umbeset the hiega t and passage to him at the kirk of prestick lya nd t o r sf effd om e b solita r w in of air, qu air he was his allane ryd a nd fra the toun of air to his awin duelling h ous in the in u one hi n well maist sober and quyet maner, set p m a d ru llie inva dit sla uch tir d lr c e him for his , schot and ela sch it th istolettis rwt throuch e p at him q thai schot him the body, i f r wt th r suordis and be ng allin of the ho s , maist cruellie and unm ercifullie slew him upone set purpois provisioun t invy and foirth o fellony.

Letters of remission were granted by the King . In 1 590 James Boyd was complainer at the trial of James 4 Gyb on the charge of Wearing and Shooting of Pistolets ’ ov ol roodh ouse d within the Palace y , Woun ing , etc . The

2 1 i a 3 0 . i n imina T ia s i C . R. iii. 488 iv. 7 . . 2 17 1 P . , ; P tc r , Cr l r l , Pt , . 3 The is o i a nd D s nt o the us o Rowa lla ne . 120. H t r e e ce f Ho e f , p

Pi a irn imina T ia s i. . 2 1 87 . tc Cr l r l , Pt , 200 JAMES BOYD OF KIPPS prisoner was convict of umbesetting of the hie way and as u oune d eidlie p sage, p feid, rancour, and malice to James Ki is Edinbur h e Boyd of pp , burges of g , the penult day of n a n a nd sobirlie u e Maij last bypast , the said James bei g g g poun hie th a irof s uera n or s the streit , as within our o e l di chalmer ea x d red a nd evill j ersuit of p , na , harme, in urie or p of ony n un di ea x o person es , bot to haif levit der Go s p and our son rer lordis u oune cr lli ane , and thair setting p him , and ewa e invading him with ane pistolet and d ra win swerd for his sla uchter ; sch uiting of him with the said pistolet and thre bullettis r cht r i in the y fute, and hu ting and wound ng of his r cht effusioun him with sword in the y hand, to the e of ’ u titi his blude in grit q a n e . A di fter the ver ct a letter from the King was read . It was addressed to the Court and stated that as the prisoner had committed the crime within the boundis of our awin h roud e c ontem te Us Palice and C almer, in p p of and mony A P Secreit Counsa ll of our ctis of arliament, and Proclama unis th a iru oune th a irb offerit erellous tio past p , and y hes ane p preparative and example to the rest of our subj ectis ; this being the first fact com m ittit in that forme sen our returning efoir Th a irfo to our rea lm e or lang b . ir we declair that the said James Gyb sall suffer the death and be put th a irto ’ rth elie r without ony delay as he hes wo d ese uit . ur A month later, however, at a sitting of the Co t on

t r th - - 1 1 Com eri . b o ir in July , p Mr James Carmichel, law Ki is rod uc eit to James Boyd of the pp , and p ane Precept a ne direct be oure Souever Lord to the Justice . Forsa m ek ill as James Gyb wes be ane c ondigne As syse la itlie convict and c ond a mnit to deid before zow Quh ilk dome of deid wes th a ireftir upoun e certa ne respectis mitiga t be Ws and the said James d ecernit and c ond a mnit to want his rycht hand for the cryme foirsa id ; Th e execu uh a irof d ela it ernist re ueist tioun q hes bene as zit y , att the q es e Ki is uh ome and d yr of the said James Boyd of pp , to q

202 TH E CAR MICHAELS OF AITHERNIE

hi 1 536 hn and Mary Richardson s wife . In Jo Carmichael obtained from the Abbess of the Nunnery of North Berwick Aith ernie 1 hi in a feu of the lands of , w ch lie the parish of Scoonie mil f in Fife , about a e and a hal from the Firth of

l - Forth ha f way between Leven and Largo . Th e lands were a grant to the Nunnery, partly by the i 1 1 60 un di Earl of F fe in , and partly by Thomas L n of that ilk in 1220 2 and at the Reformation they were included in the barony of North Berwick erected in favour of Alexander 3 1623 Home . In the superiority of the barony passed to A 4 Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, the famous Lord dvocate , r the reddendo paid to him for Aith e nie being £1 1 . a i A 1588 i Richard Carmich el d ed in pril , leav ng at least ns — n li three so Joh , Wil am , a burgess of Dysart, and James , 5 minister of Haddington . mi Mr . James Car chael was one of the most prominent n ’ of John K ox s successors in the Reformed Church . He

M. A An . in 1 564 graduated . at St drews , and was appointed to Haddington in 1 570 : he held the benefice for over fifty 1 584 h years , with a break of four years ( during w ich , A i along with ndrew Melv lle and others , he had to take refuge n his 6 in England owi g to sympathy with the Ruthven raiders . He was nominated constant Moderator of the Presbyt ery

1 606 1 628 his - fifth of Haddington in , and died in in eighty 7 od row year . W says He was a person of very great ] i ffi s natural and acquired abil ties , a su cient person for bu i n ness , and a great strain of both piety and strong learni g ’ n fine ru s through his letters and papers . He was a scholar he was the author of Gra mma ticce La tinas de E tymologia

1 - M . 1 1 4 R. S . , 5 3 6, N os. 1005 , 1 759, 2388, 2659. 2 ha e s o N h B wi Ba nna n lub . 5 1 1 . C rt r f ort er ck ( ty e C ) , pp , 3 - R. M . S . , 1 580 93, No . 1492 . 4 I b. , 1 620 33, N o . 463 . 5 Edinbu h T s a men s Ma 30 1594 . rg e t t , y , 6 ‘ nd M 2 d 11 412 Li o A w vi M Crie nd E . i. 229 . fe f re el lle, , , ; , 7 Mis a n i. 4 12 . cell y, THE CARMICHAELS OF AITHERNIE 203

Diber secundus , and he was selected by the Privy Council ’ to revise Skene s Regia m M aj esta tem as it passed through the press . ’ On Richard Carmichael s death Aith ernie was acquired 1 by Thomas Inglis, merchant in Edinburgh, and on his death

1 622 - in— l some time before it passed to his son law, Wi liam in 2 Rig, also merchant Edinburgh , who had married Sara Inglis in January ’ William Rig s first enjoyment of Aith ernie was as a prisoner : he was a prominent Presbyt erian and refused to f Ar of 1 6 18 five con orm to the ticles Perth of , so he and other laymen were sentenced to banishment in After i be ng kept for some time at Blackness, Rig petitioned in 1 625 Aith ernie to be allowed to stay at , in order, as he said, that he might have access to the guidance of the Archbishop

f A . o St . ndrews . The petition was granted it er f l 1 670 A h nie remained in the Rig amily til , when it D ownfield was sold to James Watson of , son of David Watson of and grandson of James Watson sometime Provost St . ’ A 5 A r ndrews . James s son, lexander, ma ried Margaret n Li dsay, daughter of David Lindsay of Edzell , and left a

A n . daughter and heiress, n e , who married Dr James Smyth , a cadet of the house of Braco . The eldest daughter and

t . heiress , Margaret Smy h, married Dr Thomas Carmichael,

A mi - t whose granddaughter, Maria gnes Car chael Smy h,

Al T ertius . c oinci became Mrs . exander Monro ( ) Thus by a dence the last three generations of Monros can claim a two of Aith ernie fold descent from the lairds , and the property twice passed through families of Carmichaels .

1594 James Boyd of Kipps died in January , survived by

1 - 2 1 R. M . S . , 1593 1 608, No. 67 . 2 1020 Inquisitiones Genera tes , . 3 Edinburgh M a rriage Register.

4 - . R xii. 24 9 51 xiii. 694 . P C . ; 5 In uisitiones Fi 1 136 1 1 37 . q , fe, , 204 THE BOYDS OF KIPPS his T E E N wife and three sons , Robert , John , and S PH , and

r u . a daughter, and was buried in To phichen Ch rch The 1 daughter, Marion , married Francis Cockburn of Temple . l n his In his wil James Boyd nomi ated tutors to children, and appointed Lord Boyd and the Master of Boyd to be overs 2 men to supervise their actings .

r 1 575 Robert, the eldest son , who was bo n in , succeeded to Kipps, and became an advocate with a good practice . In 1 609 i he raised an action aga nst his mother, who had married n i hi a Mr . Joh Russell, for delivery of certa n heirs p goods , including six gold buttons which his father had upon his ’ 3 ’ eilles . di skin coat . His wife s name was G Boig He ed ul 10 1645 in on J y , leav g two daughters, Margaret and Th e i ri Christian, and was buried at Torphichen . nsc ption 4 Ma istro di on his tomb runs g Roberto Bo o a Kipps , urisc onsulto uini nobilita tem J ; qui ad antiquam sang s , insi nem ieta tis robita tis et eruditionis cla rita tem g p , p accu m ula vit : rob a tus vix it d esid era tus c oelestem bonis p , ad ’

tra nsiit 10 ulii 1 645 aeta tis se tua esim o . gloriam J , p g primo ‘ After his death his ludgeing fora nent Nid ries Wynd 5 head was for a couple of years used as a powder magazine . i a Margaret, the elder daughter, married Dav d Sibb ld, A R a nk eillor in son of ndrew Sibbald of Over Fife , and brother i i of Sir James Sibbald, and had a large fam ly, her th rd son u being Sir Robert Sibbald, fo nder of the Royal College of di un Physicians in E nburgh . Christian Boyd , the yo ger

Ca rriber. daughter, married William Monteith of The sisters could not agree as to the possession of Kipps after ’ their father s death, so the matter was taken into Court,

1 . C . E . 2md S i s ii. 314 . P , er e , 2 Edinbu h T s a m n s ul 25 1595 . rg e t e t , J y , 3 M is n Di na i 5386 . or o , ct o ry, p. M nt ith a E i hs ed . 1851 . 274 . o e , p t p , , p 5 ’ T ms n s h A s vi. 694 724 . o o ct , ,

206 THE BOYDS OF KIPPS

days after his election . He married Margaret Keith, widow A of ndrew Stevin , and left one daughter, Margaret, who on 4 1 670 F oulis Reidfoord September , married Sir James (Lord ) , 1 third Baronet of Colinton . His Lordship got with her of ’ 2 tocher about ane 100 pounds Scots .

1 I uisitiones Genera tes 6 142 . nq , 2 I nd x o G n a lo i s etc. in L on O ce S t. R rd e f e e g e , y fi ( co eco CHAPTER XXII

STEPHE N BOYD OF TEMP LE

TE EN D S PH BOY , whose daughter married Laurence Scott, was the youngest son of James Boyd of Kipps . On November 23 1 614 com eira nd suffic ientlie wt furnishit , p armit ane ’ c orslett he was admitted a burgess and guild brother of

Edinburgh . Hutch esone 1 30 1 6 5 . He married Elizabeth on November , ‘ ’ In 1 61 8 he acquired the town and lands of Vogrie in

r h - Moorfoot Bo thwick paris , at the north east end of the

ll i - in- hi s , from El zabeth Cockburn , sister of his brother law 1 i Francis Cockburn . Elizabeth had acqu red her right from

Francis by virtue of an apprising . It is not known whether Stephen Boyd ever lived at Vo rie 1631 g , but in he sold it back to William Cockburn , n you ger brother of Francis , and about the same time bought of from him the property Temple, consisting of the lands

- and dominical lands of Temple, with tower, manor place , Utterstoun mill , lands and town of , lands of Caldwell , lands Y ork stoun and t own of , with the right of presentation to r ui the ki k of Temple . Some time later he acq red some security Es erstoun right over the adjoining lands of p on the east side . n Ba lintrod Temple , origi ally the Temple lands of o or B a la ntra d och i i Clerk in ton , l es adjoin ng g at the north end Moorfoots of of the , and was the site the chief house in

Scotland of the Knights Templars . On the suppression of the Order the lands had passed to the Knights Hospitallers

1 - M . S . 1620 33 Nos. 382 2248 R s on a ish s 1 627 Ma i a nd ub R. 38 , , , ; eport P r e , ( tl Cl ) , p. . 207 208 STEPHEN BOYD OF TEMPLE

h s 1577 of St . Jo n of Jeru alem , and in Lord Torphichen, the

his - in- Lord of Erection, feued them to brother law, John

Cockburn of Ormiston, one of the Reformation leaders , 1 and Alison Sandilands his wife . Eight years later a charter ’ ur was granted to Samuel Cockb n, John s third son, and

Samuel was succeeded by his elder son Francis, who married

Marion Boyd . his li Francis disponed Temple to brother Wi l am, but P the transaction gave rise to a family feud, and the rivy 2 r Council had to inte vene . 8 1 634 On March , the King, on the resignation of Stephen

Boyd and Lord Torphichen the superior, erected it into a 3 free barony . This royal grant may perhaps be connected with the 1 2 1 632 I I fact that on December , King Charles . appointed Stephen Boyd to be one of the Commissioners of Surrenders 4 fi and Tithes . The rst Commission for Surrenders of Superi orities and Teinds was appointed in 1 627 to work out the Act of n situation created by the Revocation, which an exed all the Church and Crown lands that had been alienated 1 2 since the accession of Queen Mary in 54 . This involved the transference to the Crown of the lands which had been erected into temporal lordships at the Reformation . Th e Commission was instructed to settle the terms upon which ul the erected lands should be transferred, but it timately ’ left the matter to the King s pleasure , and the value of the fi ’ erected lands was xed by him at ten years purchase, and that of the teinds at one - fifth of the rental of the lands from

n . 1 632 which they were draw The Commission of , and 1 64 1 1 644 1647 nl also those of , and , were mai y occupied with questions of valuation.

1 ill ha e s o To hi h n R b . Edinr 1 830 . 53 12 . C rt r f rp c e , o t H , , pp , 2 i. 520 ii. 17 65 314 . R. 2nd Ser. P . C . , ; , ,

3 - 4 51 No. 72 . R. M . S . , 1 63 , 4 R is o R a L s 11 . 638. eg ter f oy l etter ,

2 10 STEPHEN BOYD OF TEMPLE

1 Ba vela w his . of , to be sole executor The net value of h is £59 3 personal estate was given up at 4 Scots .

2 His son James , who succeeded to Temple, was on the 1646 1648 Committee of War from to , and at the Restoration was appointed a Commissioner of Excise and a Justice of 3 di the Peace for Midlothian . He ed in March 1 64 1 r Ann nr t In he ma ried a He yson, eldest daugh er of i r Gra ntoun h a d Will am Hen yson of , and two daughters

i ff - El zabeth , who married James Scott, Sheri Clerk of Edin 1 686 Ann Al burgh, and died in , and a, who married exander 5 S m sone i . ul y p , merchant burgess of Ed nburgh In defa t of male issue the family of Boyd of Temple became extinct, A and the property was acquired by Dundas of rniston .

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M a i n Mrs. F an is bu n 204 a mi ha f Aithernie hn 20 1 202 r o ( r c Cock r ), , C r c el o , Jo , , .

- 2 08 . Ri hard 201 203 c , . h i i M r am 2 is an Mrs. liam M n i h . s 00 202 C r t ( W l o te t ) J e , , . 4 2 0 . Dr. Th mas 1 20 2 03 . o , , M a a mi ha - m Mrs. D avid ibba 204 S h D r a S d . am s 93 1 19 rg ret ( l ) , , C r c el yt , J e , ,

205 . 1 2 1 . Ma Maria A n Mr a Lad Foulis 206. s s. Al xa nd M n rg ret ( y ) , g e ( e er o ro, T i 1 or EMP LE STEP HE N 1 89 1 95 207 us 1 9 203 . , , , , tert ) , ,

209. Caroline. s h m . See R e us c e e y Ho e Plot . m 2 s a v a s 1 0. a s 15 1 1 54 . J e , C rre of C er , , Ma a M r a rrolsid e 5 L C 6 . s. a u n S 1 89 rg ret ( re ce cott), , , ir 209 . a s a s Mi 20 1 . C r t ll,

Anna Mrs . A xand S m sone Ca rsta res Rev. il iam 1 8 24 26 ( le er y p ) , W l , , .

2 1 0 . sn . See am b Ces ock C p ell . E i ab th Mrs. Jam ha n l r s S 2 10 M s. G Kat i . h n E . l z e ( e cott), C ce lor, eorge ( er e illi n Mrs. u h L a s S t 1 68 Sk 1 30 . H g ( co t) , . e e), B a nd Radba l Mr h h anonr 3 - A xa nd a a C 6 . s. S r of l , le er ( r y, i nin 8 heselden il iam 5 B n 1 3 1 41 . C 7 58 69. g) , , , W l , , , Sir A xa nd 145 - 4 h va i th e Old 80 8 1 1 7 1 90 . . le er, , C e l er, , , Broomland - h is is n ir R b s 1 8 1 63 . S 1 1 5 3 . , C r t o , o ert, Broom ark 1 2 1 3 Cla chna ha rr ba 1 p , , . y, ttle of, . B u h n Ba n 1 0 1 78 1 79. av h us a m s G aha m f 40 79. ro g to , ro y of, , , Cl er o e, J e r o , ,

5214: IIJIDIflii

Ei t un a n L d hi d Ea La ud a s o . See Ea stoun. d H lto , or ( t r rl of er le) , El is r h a a 1 8 1 44 M . e s n M S 6 . , Jo ( rg ret cott) , , mil n a m s u h D u 2 E hins n Ai h ha s 46 . a 9. lp to e of rt , C rle , H to , J e , fo rt ke of, Binnin Sir Th mas an Mr h n ast un 3 . s. E o 1 Je ( Jo ) , of g, o , mil ns Ban our 4 7 ua Mi ha 13 . a . of Q rrel, c el, H to of g , M Ba h a 1 1 3 E n M a r nd 1 2 1 . 4 7 . s. Th ma s a lto , ry ( o Holyl ), of t g te , , ’ En a m n Th e 7 . B ea rcrofts a nd G a n 1 1 . g ge e t, , of r ge, Har erri 1 2 1 3 1 8 p g, 7 , 7 , 7, ia n i 8 n 4 IRH M ADAM 1 5 a v S 6 10 . FA OL 7. , , H r e oc ety, ,

a i i B a i La d M G iana M n 1 29. F s d 1 74 . . rl e of r , Hector, y ( eorg o ro) , D na d a r in n M a ia M rs. F i f B untsfield illia m 2 1 2 6 . k D h a rly o , W , , He e e , orot e r ( o l ‘ ’ F us n M nr 88 R b Th e 1 8 20 . erg o , o ert, Plotter, , . o o) , m B d 2 10 nr Anna Mrs. a s . F uss n ss Ad am 72 . s n erg o , Profe or , He y o , ( J e oy ) ,

F i Bels d e M rs L uis n i L m ho Anna 1 05 1 54 1 77. err er of y , . o He ry Her ot of y p y, , , , ha 5 i h h Edinbur h 1 1 1 M n 1 08 1 2 . S . ( C rlotte o ro) , , H g c ool, g , Fishin m an 3 1 55 Hi hm re 6 . g Co p y, , g y , Ho a r d Ba ba a S F h f Sa un And w 2 0 3 1 . f H carse La letc er o lto , re , , g o , y ( r r cott), h M rs n h n 1 0. F . M . a M 9 letc er, He ry (C rlotte o ro) mi ha 1 n M a M rs. a m s a 1 3 . a d Holyl , ry ( J e C r c el s Srn F b f u l d n D un an 54 . th 1 2 1 . or e o C l o e , c , y ) , Ba b M rs 1 1 1 1 4 1 8 1 85 1 98 1 99 a a G M nr 7. r d 0 1 7 r r ( . eorge o o), Holy oo , , , , , , , , a a in a m s 5 4 55 200 C pt J e , , . . n h 5 4 5 m Ar a t Mrs. a a n Mr . G s n M n 6 . Je ( Jo o ro) , , Ho e of g y, eorge (J e F 8 M 8 s s s hin 1 74 1 77 1 7 . n 84 5. orre ter of Cor torp e, , , o ro) , , F Mrs vid M n i ia m 45 80. S hia . Da ort W ll , , op ( o ro Foulis Mun s nin 1 . Bin , ro of, g) , Fouli in n am s 1 05 m M nr - Binnin s 1 77 . G of Col to , J e , , eorge Ho e o o g, Sir am s hi d Ba t 206 J e , t r r , .

Ravelston 05 D r m M nr 1 24 . G 1 . . G of , eorge, eorge Ho e o o

Sir hn 1 m n L d Ka m s 72 1 02 . 6 . Jo , Ho e, He ry ( or e ) , ,

Ma Mrs i ia m t 1 2 a i h a l ir Th m as 202 . S 9 . S ry ( . W ll cot ) , Hope of Cr g l, o ,

F un a inh a L d Sir h n La ud 1 5 Ho rin le S ee in . o t ll, or ( Jo er), pp g . Pr gle

M r A is n S t 1 82 . us n s. Ho to , Peter ( l o co t), F an i an R b 1 5 wd n Mi N h s S 8 . r c of t e, o ert, Ho e , ll of et er, a s a n M G M nr 3 um wa h ir a i Ea F rs. S k r er, J et ( eorge o o) , . H e of Pol rt , P tr c ( rl of Fuird ans n i d 1 2 29 39 R d 38 . 7 of Cr to ell, , , , Fu a n Ba rto olm A am nh Mrs. d ll rto of , A n s S 1 90 - D avid 66 ( g e cott) , . , , M a a t M rs Lau n Binnin rg re ( . re ce g) ,

GILMOUR or RAIGMILLAR Sm O HN 1 05 1 50 . C , J , G a s w La i h an t Mrs A xa nd M nr Kir 80 . un . l go , g k , H ter, J e ( le er o o, G a s w niv si 4 m/us 8 1 67 . ter l go U er ty, , ) , n M a a a Mrs b t L wis 86 G ss f 3 3 45 55 Ma . R le coe, cre o , , , . rg ret ( o er o ), , G dsm i h liv 8 67 6 . ol t , O er, ,

i a m 1 92 100 . Goodsrr D r. hn 1 0 Dr. li 70 7 0. , Jo , W l , , , ,

G i s 2 utch esone E i ab h Mrs. S h n ss a m s Ma h ma 6 . H regory, Profe or J e ( t e t c ) , , l z et ( tep e

ss a m s M di in 65 95 B d 207. Profe or J e ( e c e) , , , oy ) ,

1 0 1 .

Mrs. i iam is 8 INC HAFF RAY 7 . L S 8 . W ll ( ette cott) , , G na n 2 m dinbur h R a 56 63 - 65 69 G 1 1 . In a E ret ree , fir ry , g oy l, , , , G ia s hur h a d d bu h 5 1 08 f E in 6 3 . rey r r C c y r , rg , , ,

In is Au hindinn Mrs. A hiba d gl of c y, rc l

- G b a m s 0 a n hi 83 . 1 99 2 1 . y , J e , (Je P lp) ,

a a in hn 84 . C pt Jo ,

h ia M n 1 29. Mr . n Ma ALDAN E or GLEN EAGLES AT RICK 47. s H , P , Jo ( r o ro) , INDEX 2 li5

In is Au hindinn S hia Mrs. hn L nn x T w a ia s L m ho 1 76 1 77 gl of c y, op ( Jo e o o er, l y p y, , , M n 83 84 . 1 83 . o ro) , ,

f Redh all Mrs. G a nnah L d n niv si 54 5 8 60 68 92 1 1 3 o , eorge (H ey e U er ty, , , , , , . Ma u n 81 Lin i h . w a s 1 3 4 1 35 . cq ee ) , l t go C tle, , D a vid 1 0 7 108 1 49 1 5 . Ea 1 50 6 s 1 1 4 6. , , , , rl of, , , Ka ha in Mr Al xa nd M n Livin n h s. s a a in Mrs. Th m as Bin t r e ( e er o ro, g to e, C t r e ( o

s undus 1 07 108 1 56. in 1 1 n 37 38 . ec ) , , , g) , ,

Th mas 203 . Ma a Mr G M n s. 6 . o , rg ret ( eorge o ro) , h M i i Sa a rs. a m Ri 203 . Ecclesm ach a n illia m 1 3 7. r ( W ll g) , of , W ,

hn 6 0. Inn D r. doch n s Ga r 1 3 1 4 . e , Jo , of , He ry, , I vin 1 58 - 1 62 166 - 1 69 1 70 - 1 72 1 82 Sa a s Ma Lad Binnin r e , , , , , of ltco t , ry ( y g),

1 49.

D r. h is h 5 4 . L ha Sir G L d sid n 1 05 C r top er, ock rt, eorge , or Pre e t , . ’ nd n St. G i 8 8 s s a 7 8 . o o , eorge Ho p t l, , WO D a il i ERVIS O . See B R b . J l e, o ert Lowise a 8 1 s f n 6 1 9. o Ple , , hns n D r. Samu 1 04 Jo to , el, . Lum sd n M rs M i ha a n . S e , c el (J et cott) , La hrisk D a vid 3 f t 1 9 . o , , 1 0 9 . f W a rriston Sir A hiba d 1 85 o , rc l , . L m ho Ea s 1 76 1 77 183 y p y, , , , . m ter ohnstone Dr. a s 1 2 1 . J , J e , ‘ M O I O M SH AN E Mrs. G M n KAM ES LORD nr m 72 02 , J ( eorge o ro) , 1 . , (He y Ho e) , , ’ i s 1 0 K a s P a 9. y ortr t , ‘ M Culloch ir d 4 S G 1 9. , o frey, K s Abb 1 54. el o ey, Ma d na d f S a Sir D na d u h c o l o le t, o l , fo rt K nn d Sir Th mas 1 45 1 46. e e y, o , , Ba - t 77 82 . r , Ker D un an 1 0 . , c , Isab la M rs. A xa nd M n Mr hn el ( le er o ro, Eu h mia s. Ea stoun 13 p e ( Jo ) , . imu s 77 78 81 82 90. M oriston 1 53 - 1 55 pr ) , , , , , K s f . er o , a n N ma n M r . M s a d 8 1 . J et ( or cleo ) , K s 1 0 32 . er e , , Ma a Mrs h M 8 1 . n a u n . rg ret ( Jo cq ee ) , Kersla nd 192 1 93 . , , M ‘ Gill hn 5 5 7 8 64 . , Jo , , , Ki i a nk i bat 79. ll ecr e, tle of, Ma a G n a 3 8 40 k . c y, e er l, , ilm ui Ea s 2 3 7. K r ter, , , Ma nzi ir 2 S G 1 6 8. cke e, eorge , , winnin 1 60 1 61 1 67. Kil g, , , R i 4 5 or e, , . Kin a ids ha ilk 105 . c of t t , M a a u in in 62 66 71 89 1 91 cl r , Col , , , , , . Kinl i h 1 84 . e t , Ma k dou all Ma ia G ia na S 88 g , r eorg cott, . Kinl h Sir F an is 1 44. oc , r c , Ma in i lia m 5 6. M , W l , Ald erston rs. a i A n s of , P tr ck ( g e Mallen 1 6 1 83 1 84 . y, 7 , , S tt 1 82 . co ) , M a hm n Ea f Sir a i um rc o t , rl o ( P tr ck H e), a s 3 . Kinnet ,

- i s 1 95 1 98 201 204 205 . K pp , , , , M a sha s a is n 2 1 . r l e pr o , D r R b 1 1 7. Kn x . o , o ert, Ma in R b 8 1 2 5 2 1 9 7 . rt , o ert, , , ,

RES 83 84 1 2 9. M a w LANGBY x Ma a Mrs. Lau n S , , , ell, rg ret ( re ce cott) ,

La n sid ba 1 96 . 1 90 1 91 g e, ttle of, , . h F 5 M Laud Sir n L d un ainha 1 k ss 92 . er, Jo ( or o t ll) , , ec el, Profe or, edical S i Edinbu h 65 66 See oc ety, rg , , . i h M i n M r . R a d a R a i Edinbu h a n s S f . of H lto , c r ( r o oy l oc ety o rg M d1 h S 182 . e cal S i Edinbu R a 1 02 cott) , oc ety of rg , oy l, ,

La ud da 1 53 . 1 20 . er le,

hn D uk 1 7 1 47. M vi G rst Ear 1 7 1 8 24 Jo , e of, , el lle, eorge, fi l of, , , ,

rs Ea f 1 76. fi t rl o , h a s L d a n hi d Ea f M n i s f oultera llers a m s 1 4 C 9. C rle ( or H lto ) , t r rl o , e z e o , J e , Mi n Ba n n R b 1 44 1 4 5 l of r to , o ert, , . s h a 1 5 Milntown M n 1 - 3 a m s v n E f 7. s . J e , e e t rl o , , o ro of, Min a 52 La va 75 . . ter, orc , w d 1 2 5 Mit h l n Law i a ia s i B a 6 c e stou 1 81 . r e, l We r of l ck oo , , , , M nm u h am s Du 1 7 1 8 28 1 88 o o t , J e , ke of, , , , . 2 16 INDEX

M NR M N O O . O ROS or AUCHINBOWIE : Isab l Mrs el a ( .

- s n nam 1 . N ini L wis 8 4 8 a n 6 . pelli g of e, o ),

Milntown hn 1 . Al xa nd Binnin 1 22 1 23 of , Jo , e er g, , M r 1 2 - Andr w o . his a mi 1 23 1 25 e , , f ly, .

And w Be 2 . D a vid Binnin 1 23 re g, g, .

G 2 3 . A xand illiam 1 4 2 . eorge , , le er W , d an l R ss Mr. G h Ma G 1 08 1 09 1 1 9 eorge, el er, C cel or of o j or eorge, , ,

1 2 7. M r un ha n . G MON RO ROFESS O R ALE XAN DER S undus eorge, yo ger, C cellor of , P , ec ,

R ss 5 6 . o , ,

- M 54 . f P itlundie r. G 6 7 10 a if a nd du a i n 89 92 w o , eorge, , , , e rly l e e c t o , ; ork

- hn 7. a s ss 92 1 00 i a w k 1 00 Jo , Profe or, l ter ry or , ,

A n s Mrs. a m s F b s 5 4 . 1 01 s i n i s i i s 1 02 1 03 g e ( J e or e ) , c e t fic oc et e , , ;

- - a n Mrs. hn M nr 5 4 56. iva if a nd h ara 1 04 1 1 0 his Je ( Jo o o) , pr te l e c cter, Da vid b h Sir A xa nd 6 wi Ka h a in In is 1 07 1 08 1 56 ( rot er of le er) , , fe ( t r e gl ) , , , .

7 1 0 . a M rs u h 8 Isab . S 88 1 0 , ell ( H g cott) , , . OF BEA RC ROF TS SIR ALE XA N D E R ha M rs. L uis nr Ferrier , , C rlotte ( o He y ) , 6 1 0 - 36 44 49 5 1 5 4 a if 1 0 , , , , , e rly l e, ; ur ha s Bearcrofts 1 0 1 1 a MON RO BIN N IN G OF SOFT LAW DAe 85 p c e of , , e rly , , , ssi na a 1 5 1 6 a ina 1 22 1 23 his wiv s see m profe o l c reer, , C rol , , e , Ho e, s h m a nd R e us 1 6 - 28 hia a nd B ai ab S Is a . c e e y Ho e Plot , op , l r, ell li i a a 2 9- 35 his wi Lillias MON RO ROF ESSOR ALE XAN D ER T ia s po t c l c reer, fe ( , P , ert ,

- - Ba stonn 1 1 1 4 his fa mi viz. 95 1 1 1 1 19 1 5 1 his wiv s see Ca r ) , ly, , , e , il ia m Ar hiba d 3 5 an Mrs. mi h a Sm h Ma ia A n s and c l , Je ( W l c el yt , r g e , S m i Lillias a nd Ma 3 5 47 55 un an e p l) , ry, , , ; H ter, J et .

a s n G a nd hn in a . His ami viz l o Colo el eorge Jo fr f ly,

MON ROS OF AUC HINBOWIE E LD ER B RAN CH . Cra i lockh art a ain A xa nd , of g , C pt le er,

- n G 1 1 1 4 35 48. 1 2 6. Colo el eorge, , ,

- A xa nd 48 50. Dr a m s 1 26 le er, . J e , .

- D r. G 50 52 . n 1 2 7. eorge , He ry,

i ut nan G 48. ir D avid 1 28 2 L S 1 9. e e t eorge, , ,

5 . Ma i ia m 1 2 A xand 0 9. le er, j or W ll , hn i 1 Maria Mrs. 5 In is 1 2 9. Cec l, . ( Jo gl ) ,

Ma G 41 st R im n 53 . a th in Lad ua 1 2 1 30 S 9 . j or eorge ( eg e t) , C er e ( y te rt) , , lm 5 in G A . i na r n 30 a ta 3 G a M s. G S 1 . C p eorge y er, eorg ( eorge ke e) , n 5 a Mrs xa nd Binnin Edm dsha m 3 . i t . A of o , H rr e ( le er g O O O HN SURGE ON 1 670 35 M n 1 2 3 1 3 1 M N R . , J , ( , o ro) , , - - his wiv see 3 6 4 7 54 56 57 60 63 s Isab a 1 3 1 . , , , , ; e , ell ,

d i h n M a a . M . F h F b s a n a n ha Mrs. n or e , Je , Cr c to , rg ret C rlotte ( He ry letc er), mus M oN Ro ROFE SSOR ALEXAN D E R i 1 3 1 . , P , Pr , 5 - - 2 a M n ith arriber M rs i i 49 5 1 54 55 5 6 7 77 89 9 C . am , , , , , , e rly o te of , W ll m n i a nd du a i n 5 7 58 a in hris ian B d 204 . l fe e c t o , , ppo t e t (C t oy ) , d w a s ss 5 96 2 6 7 - 6 9 M n m Assloss A xand 1 61 a n . ork Profe or, , o tgo ery of , le er, a In m a 3 - 65 Auchinh H w 1 5 unda i n R 6 ood e 9. fo t o of oy l fir ry, ; of , ,

- - s i n i s i i s 65 67 7 1 73 iva Broomla nds Hew I 1 59 1 60. c e t fic oc et e , , pr te of , ( ) , , - wi Isa 1 1 i a nd h a a 73 77 his G 1 60 6 . l fe c r cter, fe ( eorge, , 8 1 82 0 Hew 1 5 1 0 - 1 2 b a Ma d na d 77 78 9 . 6 6 6 . ell c o l ) , , , , , ,

M r a m s hi . 2 77 R b 1 60 16 . M a a s. rg ret ( J e P lp) , o ert, , 8 88 He 1 0 1 62 3 D O ALD 56 3 76 77 7 . w 1 R N 7 6 6 . D . , , , , , , , , hn M a a h M a a e M rs. S t M rs a s Binnin Isab a . ell rg r t ( Jo cott) , rg re ( C rle g) ,

88 .

MON ROS or AUCHINBOWIE Y OUNGER G n d i liam 1 58 . , of ree fiel , W l , Lan shaw D a vid 1 8 2 4 26 BRAN CH . . of g , , , , H d a 5 1 7 83 84 i ir a m s 30 O N a v 7 . S k m S 33 J , oc te, , , , of el orl e, J e , , . m 55 Mr . G r e hn 1 1 62 a n s W a . J e ( eorge Ho e) , of , Jo , ,

2 18 INDEX

' ' R a h si a S i 103 . Scorr OF BAV ELAW i liam VII oy l P y c l oc ety, , W l ( ), S ocret Edinbu h 65 - 67 102 103 i ia m VI I I y of rg , , , , W ll ( ), La ur n 1 18 . 1 x 1 92 . e ce ( ),

L nd n 69 87 1 20 . ha s X 1 2 1 3 ( 9 9 . o o , , , — C rle ), , Roxbu h hn rs D u 1 5 2 . Elizab h Lad Binnin 1 4 1 1 49 rg e, Jo , fi t ke of, et ( y g), , ,

Russ illia m L d 1 7 1 8 28 . 1 89. ell, W , or , , , D r h 60 8 Ma a Mr n h a a 1 8 . R u h d . 69 9. s. u 9 t erfor , Jo , , , rg ret ( H g W ll ce),

- R e us 1 6 2 8. Ba ba a La d Ho 1 90 y Ho e Plot, r r ( y g), .

h istia n Lad B a nd 1 90 . C r ( y r ), ’ r r n Mrs i h m d n r u R s ER s EDINBURG H 86 . a t u S . C . M a L s 1 90 . , , J e ( c el e ), ’ t s i al nd 88 A n M S . G s L n 8 . s rs. Ada m ul ar n 1 90 7 F . eorge Ho p t , o o , , g e ( l to ) ,

St. N inia n 45 48 Ba ba a Mr s . ha s 1 91 . s S . , , r r ( C rle cott) , m Sa a s 1 4 . a s 1 80 1 82 9 . ltco t , J e , , h w Sa nd i a nds f T hi en a m s 1 05 . La u n m ha n in G as 191 l o orp c , J e , re ce, erc t l go , ,

M rs i ia m Ma Ea stoun 1 4 1 92. . W ll ( ry ) , . T i h n a See a s h . mm nd ha 3 l o orp c e Co er C rles J 1 9 . l h 1 1 68 1 2 1 82 1 85 M E . m s i ab h B d 2 1 0 . Scots oc 1 66 67 7 rs. a , , , , , , J e ( l z et oy ) , t s Bu u h 1 66 1 1 1 9 1 80 — of a s i s u h 24 S 7 7 Ga h . co t of ccle c , , , , , — l el , H g , 1 8 1 88. Ga a M u h I a b M n 7 f rs. s lla , o l , H g ( e o ro) ,

Murd ostoun 1 66 . 88 1 08 of , t h Hew 1 6 - 1 loc 6 68. M hn I a b la Mal a r t S Sco s rs. s e M n cott of , , Jo ( el g o ro) , m s 1 1 68 1 1 2 1 84 a 67 69 7 . ‘ J e , , , , , M . s. 1 85 . Lis t il ia m G 88 rs. . , et e ( W l regory),

m a i 8 - Susanna Mrs. a s B 1 6 . a Ear Ta r as 1 8 1 9 2 2 24 ( J e l r) , W lter, l of r , , , ,

onnet Mrs. hn B a ir 1 68 . 27 1 87. J ( Jo l ) , , HARPE RR IG AN D BAVELAW Sir a 1 o r 1 1 . , W lter,

- 1 2 o 2 Sc ttinfiat 1 1 . A N C I 1 0 8 . L URE E ( ) , 7 , , 3

b th . S i th hi wi See in E i a S e 71 2 3 83 . s . 7 7 fe Pr gle, l z e elect oc ety, , , , , i n M r a m s S a wa ds S m il a th a M r i ia m an Ma s. f s. r o ( J e cott, ter r e p of C c rt , W ll (Je M n 5 Ri h a d La ud 1 82 . 3 . Mrs. c r er), o ro), il iam a a ha sbu An h n r Ea 1 6 1 7 Ma a M rs. S s rg ret ( W l W ll ce) fte ry, t o y, fi t rl of, , ,

20 27 . 1 82 . , h 2 h m 2 M r . a i Kin 1 8 . Sh ha d T as 20 A n s s 7. g e ( P tr ck loc ), ep r , o , , '

m 1 82 . herifimuir ba a S 80 . a n Mrs. s k f Je ( J e Cler ), , ttle o ,

M r ust n 1 82 . Shi ds Al xa nd 3 8 3 44 45 Alis n s. 9 . o ( Peter Ho o ) , el , e er, , , , i Clerkin ton Sir i lia m L d Sh elfield v 1 54 1 55 . of g , W l ( or , O er, , 85 ib a v M d 204 Clerk in ton 1 80 1 83 1 84 1 1 87 S b d M rs. Da id a a B g ), , , , , , l , ( rg ret oy ) , ,

1 88 . 205 .

La u n 184 . Sir R b 48 1 96 1 97 re ce, o ert, , , ,

Mr . Clonbeith i liam 1 84 . Sidd ns s 1 04 of , W l , o , , i in D r. And w 0 8 . a 1 84 . S a 6 9 W lter, cl r, re , ,

f allen hn 1 84 185 1 91 . S n Rubisla w M rs G G iana M . o y, Jo , , , ke e of , eorge ( eorg 1 85 M n 1 30 R b . . Rev. o ert, o ro) , M a d 8 2 Ba ba a La d D umm nd 1 84 . S a na d s 77 7 8 . r r ( y r o ) , le t, c o l of, , h a A n s La d m 1 84 . Smi A n 1 7 2 5 . g e ( y Ho e), t , ro , ,

B nnin t n a m s 1 80 1 85 1 86 Ad a m 72 . of o g o , J e , , , ,

h i m s 20 203 . Sm f Aith ern e Dr. a 1 1 89. yt o , J e , ,

- OF BAVE LAW LAURE NCE I I 1 6 1 39 D r. am s armi ha 93 1 1 9 1 2 1 . , ( ), , , J e C c el ,

- 1 41 1 4 7 1 49 1 87 1 89 209 his Ma ia A n s a m i ha Mrs . , , , , ; r g e C r c el (

wiv s see B d Ma a a nd Bin A xand M n e ius 1 19 203 . e , oy , rg ret, le er o ro, t rt ) , ,

nin a h in . S i Im v s in A i u u 71 1 55 . g, C t er e oc ety of pro er gr c lt re , , i n s Lau n III 1 89 1 90 191 . En u a m n A s S re ce ( ) , , , for co r ge e t of rt , c e ce ,

i iam Iv 1 89 1 91 . . 72 . W ll ( ) , , etc ,

m in the En ish Lan ua 73 . h a s v 1 89 1 91 . C rle ( ), , for pro ot g gl g ge ,

1 2 R i f f the Ind us i us 1 50 . hn v1 1 9 1 9 . Jo ( ) , , for el e o tr o Poor, INDEX 2 1l)

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