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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'^ S. V. 128., June 12. '58. 



early on Saturday morning. Some more officers are 

 going, and the rest of the Dutch troops are quicklj- to 

 follow : so I hope to have some respite from fatigue in a 

 few days, which will give me time to look after business. 



" I send you the General Post, which has the freshest 

 of our news from London and abroad. All the family, 

 blessed be God, are in health. Dr. Lambie remembers 

 you frequently. Write me often and fully. Dear Son, I 

 commit you to the care and protection of a generous God, 

 and give you and Jeannie my blessings. My service to 

 all friends. Adieu. 



" Mr. Patrick Anderson, 

 In Islay. 



To the care of Mr. John 

 Allan, Bailie of Islay." 



Mr. Allan married one of Anderson's daughters, 

 and it was through this connexion that he ob- 

 tained the office of Baron Baillie of Islay. To 

 make this intelligible to our southern readers, we 

 may explain, that this official was the deputy or 

 'representative of the superior or over-lord : that 

 is to say, the territorial baron ; and, during feudal 

 times, this person had very ample powers over all 

 the subjects in the barony, extending, when the 

 baron was infeft with the right of " Pit and Gal- 

 lows," even to imprisonment and hanging. Lat- 

 terly, the Baron Court was held for civil claims 

 and minor criminal or quasi-criminal offences. 

 Islay at this time belonged to the ancestor of the 

 present Earl of Cawdor. It was afterwards ac- 

 quired by the first Campbell of Shawfield, and is 

 now the property (at least the greater portion) of 

 the heir of the late Mr. James Morrison, M.P. 



Patrick Anderson to his Father. 



" London, June first, 1723. 

 " My dearest Sir, 



" I writ you on Tuesday, and since have yours of the 

 twenty-fifth. Mr. Govan's bill is accepted, and though I 

 did not find Mr. Johnston at home, yet his clerk told me 

 it was good, and in all events Messrs. Lidderdale andTead 

 will answer Mr. Murdoch's order. 



" Next week Mr. Sturt will have all the specimens 

 ready, and I'll cause stick them up in marble paper, so 

 as they may be delivered to the persons I mentioned; 

 but I must beg leave humbly to differ from you, in taking 

 tip the copies from these persons when I leave this, for 

 they shall scarce have time to look them over, far less 

 show them to any other, for one need not pretend either 

 to see or speak with one of them till the hurry of the 

 King's going over [is past], and when the specimens are 

 left it keeps the story in their head, and they will have 

 time to show them, which may do you service, in case the 

 publick should not, but I shall be entirely guided by your 

 orders. I have made out 2 or 3 copies of my friend 



C , and yesterday gave one to C r ; and he is, by 



Munday Morning, to mark what he has not, that are 

 there. I likewise called at Lord Harley, but he wont be 

 in town till the latter end of next week. 



" I am very sensible of my charges in living here, and 

 as much convinced that you dont grudge it. I can assure 

 you, its not possible for me to live more frugally, and I 

 believe I need not tell you my wife's inclination that way. 



" I have had repeated instances of your and my mothers 

 concern for me, that how we are to be accommodated 

 shall not a bit disturb ine. I writ you in my last Babies 

 case: so I hope you'll see it proper we come down as 

 soon as possible, and if the afiair with D be settled 



as you wish it ma}', I believe my friend will find it more 

 convenient to defer his joariiey. 



" The reason j'ou gave me some time ago, for raising 

 Balberton's money, was good ; but in your last, I don't 

 so well apprehend the consequence you insinuate, if I 

 should not, as I told you in my last. I'll enter into any 

 measures the Company shall propose, because they are 

 reasonable, and you may be very well assured I'll be 

 directed by you in every thing, for no state of life can 

 ever make the least abatement of that duty and gratitude 

 I so justly owe you; and I flatter myself you'll agree 

 that money of that kind should not be touched till it 

 please God we be both on the spot, otherwise ill-natured 

 folk might misconstrue it, and by that means create me 

 pain and uneasiness. 



" I have sent you by Mr. Wood some more sheets of 

 the abbreviature: so you see Mr. Sturt* advances apace, 

 and I hope before I leave this, best part of them will be 

 done. This day a great many of our ]VJ_embers sett out 

 for Scotland ; amongst whom are Provost Campbell and 

 his brother, and before you have this, Mr. Forbes will be 

 with you. 



" In a Post or two I'll send you the list you want, and 

 am glad the Advocate's affair is iii agitation. Mr. Camp- 

 bell f was saying he would write j'ou for a list of all the 

 Books pro and con on Queen Mary. He asked me if I 

 could give him a Copy of Leslie's negotiations, but I could 

 not do that without your consent, and I humbly think to 

 print that paper would prove beneficial, for I'm told there's 

 no story more inquired into, and none less known. 



" I wish my friend Mr. Montgomery would settle that 

 affair with Auehteriony ; if not, its lucky if Babies J bond 

 be not mislaid, for they'll neither own nor disown that 

 they have it till the papers be given up. 



" My dearest Sir, 



"Adieu. 



" To Mr. James Anderson, 



" Writer to the Signet, 

 « Edinb." 



Patrick Anderson to his Father. 



" London, February 12, 172|. 

 " My dearest Sir, 

 " I write you last post, and j'esterday I had the pleasure 

 of yours of the 2'^''- with the inclosed to Messrs. Loundes 

 & Fraser, who I believe will do you all the service they 

 can: As to your particular matter §, we are come to the 

 resolution of petitioning the House of Commons, and Sir 

 Richard Steele || is to present it, and to be seconded bj' 



* This was Sturt the engraver, whose letters to Ander- 

 son on the subject of the engravings for the Diplomata 

 ScoticB have so far as preserved been printed in the Ana- 

 lectd Scotica, i. e. (edited by James Maidment, Esq.) from 

 the originals in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates 

 (vol. i. p. 94, Edinburgh, 1835, 8vo.). A very limited im- 

 pression of the Analecta was printed by Mr. Stevenson, 

 and it is now rare. 



t Campbell of Cawdor, the proprietor of Islaj'. 



j Babie, corruption for Barbara, the wife of Patrick 

 Anderson. 



§ This was to obtain compensation for the enormous ex- 

 pences Anderson had incurred in his magnificent national 

 collection of the Diplomata Scotice, the original publication 

 of which had been approved of by the Scotish Parlia- 

 ment before the Union. He had obtained the situation 

 of Postmaster-General 6f Scotland as an instalment ; but 

 he was not allowed to retain it long, and it was taken 

 from him, and given to some hanger-on of ministry. 



II Steele was a personal friend of Anderson : various 

 letters from the former to the latter will be found, printed 

 from the originals, in Mr. Maidment's Analecta Scotica. 



