gud §, No 9,, Man, 1. °56.] 
chased the estate of Brunton, in Fife, and having 
been thrice married, was succeeded therein by his 
eldest son James. He had another son, Thomas 
Law, minister of Inchinnan, from whom descended 
the family of Elvingston, in East Lothian, The 
elder branch continued for several generations, 
but it is believed the male line is now extinct. 
There is no evidence that the notorious John 
Law, Comptroller-General of France, was a cadet 
of this family, but, on the contrary, there is au- 
thority to show that his grandfather was Andrew 
Law, minister of Neilston, and son of John Law 
of Waterfoot, in Renfrewshire. His father, Wil- 
liam Law, goldsmith in Edinburgh, could not have 
been (as has been’ asserted) son of James Law of 
Brunton (grandson of the archbishop) by Miss 
Preston, as it can be proved that their marriage 
took place 2nd October, 1668, while the eldest 
child of William and his wife Jean Campbell was 
born Ist February, 1666. 
As to the notable mother of the comptroller, I 
cannot say whether she could count kindred with 
Maccallummore, but, from the designations of the 
individuals of her name who figure in family mat- 
ters, her relatives do not seem to have held an 
elevated status. Thus, Hugh Campbell, mer- 
chant, was one of the witnesses to the baptism of 
her son John, in April, 1671, and Robert Camp- 
bell, merchant, in Edinburgh, was one of the 
tutors nominated by her husband in his will, in 
1683, to his children, of whom one was named 
Robert and another Hugh. William, the gold- 
smith, purchased the lands of Lauriston, near 
Edinburgh, in 1683, and died in Paris in the same 
ear. From his third surviving son’ descended 
the late Maréchal Marquis de Lauriston, Pair de 
France. Jean Campbell, “ Lady Lauriston,” died 
21st July, 1707, aged sixty-seven. William had 
a brother, John Law, also a goldsmith, whose 
eldest son, William, followed the same trade, and 
died in 1701. I suppose Mr. Lee has seen 
Wood's Memoirs of the Life of John Law, of Lau- 
riston. R. RB. 
In Keith's Historical Catalogue of the Scottish 
Bishops, by Russell, 8vo., 1824, is the following 
account of this prelate : 
“James Law, son to Mr. Law, portioner of Lathrish, in 
Fife, and Agnes Strang, of the house of Baleasky, was 
first minister at Kirkliston in the year 1582 (some think 
1585), where he married a daughter of Dundas of New- 
liston. He was afterwards Bishop of Orkney,.and con- 
secrated by Archbishop Spotiswood, anno 1610. From 
that see he was translated to Glasgow in the year 1615, 
where he spent the remainder of his days, and died in the 
' month of November, anno 1632, and was interred in the 
upper end of the chancel of the cathedral, where his 
second lady, Marion Boyle, daughter of Boyle of Kelburn, 
caused to be erected a very handsome monument oyer his 
ve. He was esteemed a man of 
ood learning, and 
a graye and venerable aspect, 
e left behind him 
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a commentary upon several places of Scripture, which 
remains still in MS., and gives a good specimen of his 
knowledge, both in the fathers and the history of the 
Church. He left his son the estate of Brunton, in Fife, 
and he completed the leaden roof of the cathedral of 
Glasgow.” — P, 264, 
Joun I, Deeper. 
In speaking of the mother of the financier Law, 
she is said “to be descended from one of the 
branches of the house of Argyll.” There is 
little authority for this beyond the gratuitous 
statement of Mr. Wood in his Life of John Law, 
of Lauriston, a work which, nevertheless, has 
great merit, and which will afford Mr. Les all 
the information relative to the Law pedigree 
which had been collected at the date of its pub- 
lication. 
I have a discharge by this lady, wherein she is 
designed “ Jean Campbell, relict of the deceased 
William Law, goldsmith, burges of Edinburgh,” 
of the sum of 533/, 4s. 2d, Scots, being part of a 
larger sum of 13447. Scots, due by Thomas Robert- 
son, of Loch-bank, an Edinburgh tradesman, whose 
failure occasioned much distress in that city. The 
money, which was heritably secured, or, in English 
parlance, secured by mortgage, was paid by the 
trustees for Robertson’s creditors. Mr. Law’s 
agent was Mr. James Anderson the antiquary, 
whose Diplomata Scotie reflect so much credit on 
Scotland, and which would have done honour to 
a richer country. Law, her husband, was an 
Edinburgh burgess, and it is not very likely that 
the Argyll family would have been gratified by 
even a second cousin marrying a tradesman, for 
such in truth William Law was. I have an ac- 
count in his own handwriting, dated in “ Febru- 
var,” 1669, headed * David Pringell, his accompt to 
William Law,” and bearing his discharge. Amongst 
the witnesses of the baptism of his son John, oc- 
curs the name of “ Heugh Campbell,” who is 
designed as a “merchant,” meaning, scoticé, a shop- 
keeper. Another witness is “ Archibald Hislop, 
bookbinder.” It is not very likely that a “lass 
wi a lang pedigree” would have had persons in 
so humble a position as witnesses to the baptism 
of her offspring, when there were plenty of High- 
land cousins to be got. J.M. 2.) 
RUNNING FOOTMEN. 
(2 S. i. 9. 80. 121.) 
Scott, in Bride of Lammermoor, vol. ii. p. 197., 
editor Ed. Cadell, 1830, has the following : 
“Two running footmen, dressed in white, with black 
jockey-caps, and long staffs in their hands, headed the 
train; and such was their agility, that they found no dif- 
ficulty in keeping the necessary advance, which the eti- 
quette of their station required, before the carriage and 
