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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2n4 S. VI. 132., July lO. '68. 



" Whitehall, Decern' 18* 1705. 

 " My dearest Friend, 



" I am to acquaint you of the dispatch of your com- 

 mands, which I delivered in to the carrier on Friday last, 

 and went off from hence yesterday morning by Chris- 

 topher Burrell for Newcastle, directed for Mr. Thos. 

 Stephenson, merchant on the Bridge, to whom I have 

 written bj' this post. And 1 do assure you greater dis- 

 patch could not be made ; for in the first place Mr. 

 Campbell told me he could not procure the books, so as 

 to be sent you on the IMonday after I received yours; 

 and as for the plates, Mr. Collingswood told me that he 

 could not possibly get them ready to come off at the time 

 you desired, no, not the four large ones, but promised 

 they should all be ready to come off the Monday there- 

 after, and therefore I thought it might be most con- 

 venient to send them altogether. The whole charge 

 amounts to 14/. 10s. Od., and the exchange Mr. Bowden 

 reckoned at 13 p. cent, made thirty-seven shillings and 

 seven pence, making my bill I drew on Mr. George War- 

 render * to amount in the whole to 16/ 07s. Old. at eight 

 days' sight. I have observed your directions in every 

 particular as near as possible, except the paper, which is 

 something longer than your size ; but I am sure it is im- 

 perial!, and the finest sort. I never bought any of it 

 before by the quire, but have frequently had single 

 sheets, for which I always gave sixpence a sheet. 



"I have took the freedom to send down in the box with 

 your things a calico gown and pettycoat my sister Lilly 

 made in Scotland the first time she was there, and left it 

 behind her when she was in London last ; therefore I hope 

 'twill give no manner of trouble tho' it should be seen 

 by the Custom-house officers, seeing my sister can de- 

 clare upon her oath that it was made and worn by her in 

 Scotland near 2 years ago. As for the expences, I charge 

 to your account. I do assure you, my dear Friend, if it 

 had been my own affair it could not have been less ; the 

 weather here having been (and still is) so intollerably 

 bad that 'twas not possible to stirr without having a 

 coach, and sometimes no venturing abroad tho' in a 

 coach. 



" Dr. Hicks' Book is in two volumes, large folio (tho' 

 as I understand not of the largest that was printed). 

 Mr. Campbell charged me for them in quires three gui- 

 neas, two shillings the binding, and eightpence postage, 

 in all 3/. 15s. Old., which I paid him. I have bespoke 

 another sett of copperplates, to be sent b3' sea according 

 to direction, eitlier to Newcastle or Leith, which Mr. Col- 

 lingswood promised to get ready as soon as possible, 

 which I hope may amount much to the same value of 

 those sent you now 



" Since my last to you I have been to wait upon Dr. 

 Gibson t, who is now come from the Bishop's family, and 



* An Edinburgh tradesman. He was one of thebaillies, 

 and latterly Lord Provost, of Edinburgh. He was created 

 a Baronet by George L, and represented the Scolish me- 

 tropolis in the British parliament until the period of his 

 demise. He was twice married, 1st, to Margaret Lawrie, 

 and 2nd, to Grizel Blair, both ladies being daughters of 

 Edinburgh citizens, by both of whom he had issue. The 

 late Right Hon. Sir George Warrender was his great- 

 grandson. 



t Edmund Gibson, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 

 1716. He was translated in 1723 to London, and 'leld 

 that see until 1748, when he was succeeded by Thomas 

 Sherlock. Bishop Gibson was the editor of the Saxon 

 Chronicle, an edition which now is held in little esti- 

 mation. He also is said, but with what truth we know 

 not, to have printed an edition of that clever but not very 

 delicate production, the Polemo-Medinia of William 

 Drummond. 



lives at his own house in Lambeth, he being the preacher 

 of that Church. He is truly a most courteous and di-screet 

 gentleman, and expresses a very great esteem for you, 

 and says he's ashamed, as often as he thinks of you, be- 

 cause he has not written to you since he received your 

 Book*, which he commends extremely; only he says 

 that if he had known when you was here that your de- 

 sign was to write on that subject, he would have given 

 you a more just account of some persons you mention in 

 your book, whose character here does not come up to that 

 )-ou have Ijeen pleas'd in your good-nature to give them. 

 In answer to which I told him, that that was an error on 

 the right side, for 'twas more commendable to say more 

 of men than they deserved, than to detract from them 

 any thing of their due. He confess'd it was so, and very 

 much applauded your performances, and said it has cer- 

 tainly done a great deal of good service to both nations, 

 tho' he does believe that Attwood will still write on to 

 the end of the chapter; but says he would advi.se you to 

 be at no further trouble in answering him, and so we 

 parted, he obliging me to call upon him again, in order to 

 let him know where he might see me, for just then I was 

 not fully settled in a lodging. 



" I had almost forgott to tell you that Mr. Archibald 

 Campbell told me, that there are some persons here about 

 to reprint your book, and I told him that I thought it 

 was your design to send hither about 200 copies of them, 

 and he wished it might be so, and that they might be 

 sent very speedilj', because that would put a stop to the 

 design of reprinting ; and my dear Friend I have nothing 

 more to add, but to tell you that I am, and ever shall be, 

 " Yours most affectionately, 



" Thomas." 



The particulars of the account are appended ; 

 but as there is nothing very curious in them they 

 have been omitted. 



(3.) James Anderson, Esq., to {^James Campbell, Esq., of 

 Cawdor? \'\ 



" Sir, 



"Elgin, 16 March, 1716. 



" I have no news to send you from this county, but 

 that Sir John Maclean dyed at Focabers, Sunday last, 

 and among his last words cursed the Pretender and Mar, 

 and blessed God he was to dye in his bed, and not on a 

 gibbet. Huntly has gone throw this town. 



" My son, whose hand I have used in this, offers his 

 most humble service. 



"P.S. Just now I have a letter of the le* instant from 

 Elgin, which says on the postscript that Sir Hugh is 

 dead. I expect Breaden, Grant, and Culloden here to- 

 morrow, who are coming as commissioners for the county. 

 I'll be fully informed by them, and write you by next 

 post. The executors will be very easy when the j'oung 

 gentleman comes to the possession of the whole estate. 



* Historical Essay : shewing that the Crown and King- 

 dom of Scotland is Imperial and Indepeudant. Edinburgh, 

 1703, 8vo. The copy in the library of the Faculty of 

 Advocates formerly belonged to the Hon. Archibald Camp- 

 bell, afterwards a Scotish Episcopalian Bishop ; and the 

 following note in his handwriting is engrossed on the 

 boards : — 



" A very valuable book, bateing the Petition of Right, 

 or Pacta Conventa, of Fergus the First. All the records 

 cited b}' that Author are in the possession of the English. 



"What just Historians they are who after this go on 

 still with their old cry, any impartial man may judge." 



f From a draft in the handwriting of Anderson. Mr. 

 Campbell was the direct ancestor of the Earl of Cawdor. 

 Anderson was his law agent. 



