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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«d s. VIII. Deo. 10. '69. 



)n, Writei- to the Signet, "\ 

 las Paterson, f 



d Star CofFee-liouse, f 

 Hay Market, London. J 



She made many a solemn promise of good behaviour, and 

 I as many protestations if she did not I would never own 

 her, and that she should stay in the house.* 



III. 

 " Janet Anderson to her Father, Jas. Anderson, Esq. 

 " Edinburgh, 15th May, 1712. 



"My dear Father, — I am glad to hear you are win 

 safe to your journej-'s end, blessed be God for it. Seeing 

 you minded me in j'our last letter, I could not fail to ac- 

 quaint you that I'll endeavour to follow your good advice 

 in ever3'thing. Dear Sir, if you be not come off, Avhen 

 this conies to hand, I hope you'll favour me with a line ; 

 and if you be come off, I will be better content. Be 

 pleased to mind my dozen of housewifes, if it be not 

 troublesome. 



"All friends is well, and gives their service to 3-ou, as 

 does my Aunt Dreghorn t> and your most affect, obed. 

 daughter till death, Janet Anderson. 



" For Mr. James Anderson, Writer to the Signet," 

 Att Mr Thoma 

 Att the Crown and 

 Att the Foot of the Hay 



IV. 



" Mr. Patrick Anderson, to his Father, James 

 Anderson, Esq. 



"York, January 12, 1722-3, 

 " Six in the Morning. 



" My dearest Sir, — Being just setting out I have 

 only time to acquaint you what we are come after here, 

 though we had the misfortune to have the exell of our 

 coach twice broken, which detains us on the road three 

 days and a-half ; so altered the stages that Mr. Spight 

 was obliged to fite out a by-coach for us. 



" I have both yours, and hope to have another at 

 Stamford, where, God willing, we'll be Monday's evening, 

 and at London on Thursda3', where I expect directions 

 from you about everj'thing, for without them, you know, 

 I can apply to nobody, nor so much as open mj' mouth 

 about the story I'm going about. You forgot to tell me 

 the price of the hooks for the Duke of Argyle, and Mr. 

 Herriot did not tell what I was to demand of the Earl of 

 Kinnoul, but I suppose you'll forget nothing I am to do at 

 London. I would wish you would send all j'our public 

 papers with memorials, so as I may not be idle nor lose 

 time, in case the matter of the grant should be moved at 

 the sitting of the House, or a fair opportunity for getting 

 the JEque, &c., &c. Send me one or two of your printed 

 catalogues J, the list made by Mr. Campbell, &c., &c., of 

 the Arcana, and likewise the" long list made by yourself, 

 because these will enable me to discourse of them. 



" All the boxes vi-ent safe from Newcastle ; and j'ester- 

 day I met Mrs. M'Ewen § in good health. We are so 

 early out and late in that I can't write so often on the 

 road, which obliges Babie [Barbara, his wife] to make 

 her apology for not writing either to her own friends or 

 mine. We offer our humble duty and service to both, 



* " Mary afterwards married respectably, and went 

 abroad with her husband, Peter de Gardeine or Garden." 



t " Wife of Pitcairn of Dreghorn, the only sister of 

 James Anderson." 



% " This was a thin folio, of which a few copies were 

 previously printed by Anderson. It is now of very great 

 raritj'^, and much coveted by collectors. The object was 

 to induce some wealthy nobleman or gentleman to pur- 

 chase the entire collection." 



§ " Probably the wife of M'Ewen, the Edinburgh book- 

 seller, with whom Anderson was accustomed to deal." 



and pray that God may ever bless and preserve you and 

 them. — Adieu, dear Sir. 



" James Anderson, Esq., 

 Writer to Her Majesty's Signet, 



at Edinburgh. I Postage 6d] 



V. 

 " Miss Anne Anderson to her Brother, Patrick. 

 " Deere Brother, — It's now six years since I be- 

 came an exile from my friends and countrj', whereby I 

 am become an alien to both, witliout so much of a line' or 

 word from any, wholy forgotten of them tho' not without 

 Providance here. I have severall times sent to my father, 

 and severall other of my relations, among the latter to 

 you ; and once more have ventured the same to you by a 

 gentleman [by] whome I have the opportunity to de- 

 lever, as will be the same to you, in hope that I may 

 engage an answer of your good healths and welfare. 

 Nothing more I require of you, Providance having been 

 more propittious than to lay me under such state as to 

 crave allmes, or any assistance of any person, yet have 

 so much affection as to desire the welfare of mj' relations, 

 tho' I cannot partak inimedietely. Waiting your answer, 

 your affectionate Sister, " Anne Anderson. 



" Kent County, Maryland, ) 

 July 14, 1718. j 



" Direct for me at Mr. Thomas Bownes, attorney-at- 

 law, in Kent County, in Edinburgh. I have not forgote 

 my respects to all mj' friends, especially my brother 

 James, and all my sisters. — A. A. 

 " Mr. Patrick Anderson,* '^ 



At Mr. James Anderson. — This. J 

 " This letter establishes the fact that one of Anderson's 

 daughters settled in America. Perhaps she married there, 

 and there maj' be still existing descendants of James 

 Anderson there. 



VI. 

 " Earl of Kinnoul to James Anderson, Esq. 



" Whitehall, April 4, 1723. 

 " Sir, — I am much obliged to you for yours of March 

 28, received Saturdaj"-. 



" The more I consider the account of the MSS. in Sir 

 Eobert Sibbald's auction, I am the more confirmed in the 

 resolution I sent j'ou in mj- last, that I will by no means 

 medle with the whole collection at 200/. . . ." 



" The rest of the letter is torn awaj'. The greater por- 

 tion of the Sibbald MSS. belongs now to the Library of 

 the Faculty of Advocates. The Earl of Kinnoul was the 

 nobleman summoned to the House of Peers as Lord Hay 

 of Petwardine, 31st December, 1711. He married a 

 daughter of the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and pro- 

 bably acquired his taste for books from that nobleman. 

 He was a high Tory ; and his English peerage originated 

 unquestionably in the determination of Queen Anne, as 

 suggested by her Ministers, to keep them in by a crea- 

 tion of twelve Peers, to ensure a majority in the Upper 

 House. 



« VIL 

 " Claim of James Anderson against Government, for the 

 publication of the ^ DiplomatoB Scotia.' (^From the 

 original, in his own handwriting, amongst the Collection 

 of his Papers in the Library of tlie Faculty of Advo- 

 • Gates.") 

 " To Besting of Estimate made by the 



Parliament of Scotland - - • £740 

 By interest thereof from Midsummei', 



1710 — before whi ch time it was laid 



* " Afterwards the celebrated President of the Court of 

 Session." 



