Wednesday, September 5. 1792. 



Sketch of the life of Andrew Fletcher of 

 Salton, one of the senators of the college 



OF JUSTICE, commonly CALLED LORD MiLTON. 

 With a portrait. 

 IjORD Milton, the faithful friend and co-adjutor of 

 Archibald duke of Argyll, as minister for Scotland, 

 was the son of Henry Fletcher of Salton, the immt- 

 diate younger brother of the famous Andrew Flet- 

 cher, the defender of the liberty and independence of • 

 Scotland *. 



♦ The familv cf Sahoij Flercher, is Siid to. be originally from the 

 counry ofTw'.eJJale ; that Robert Fletcher, the first of the family in Scot- 

 land, was of the Fletchers of SuAex ; that Andrew, the son ofRobert, was 

 a merchant of eminence at Dundee, whose son David, purohiseJ the estate 

 of Innerpeff'er, in the cojDty of Angus, and marriej a daugh er of Og'l- 

 v',e of Pourie, by v/hom he had three sons, Robert, Andrew, and David. 



Robert eldest, son of the laird of I::nerpcff:r, succeeded to his fither in 



the year 1 557, wjen he bought the estate of Bcn;ho, and other Lands in 



the same coanty, and died in tlie year 1613, leavir.g s'x sjnj ; Anlrew j 



Jzmcs provost oi" DiinJe.' ; P.o'jert, to v/hom he jave Bencho; George 



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