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with Screw'd Bayonetts and a great many other small 

 arms and the Chiefs of the different tribes were appoynted 

 to meet my Brother and me at Arthur Reid's Tavern ' at 

 8 oc[loc]k that evening before the attempt which was to 

 be at eleven precisely the round beeing then always 

 punctually at twelve headed by Lindsey for the most part. 

 by my Lord Orm[istoun's] " 2 renew'd Orders to keep them 

 alert. Much about the time we were put to these Shifts 

 Mr. F[orbes] and Balh[aldy] came to Town with about 

 twenty rive or twenty six men and the former assuring 

 my brother that all things were right on his Side the man 

 was immediately set to the knitting of his Engine. I paid 

 them a visit with my Brother betwixt live and six that 

 unhappy afternoon with whom I found Barns and Mr. A. 

 according to assignation. Mr. F[orbes] after having en- 

 tertain'd us with the first Scroll of a very long and posi- 

 tive description of all our proceeding not only for the 

 that evening but for several] days to come which was to 

 be sent the same night to my Lord Drummond by old 

 Holland. He took his leave about six disguis'd in a 

 Hacqueney Coach in order to visit the machine. Upon 

 his return he seemed to be mightily discontented with the 

 work which he s[ai]d he had order d to be rectyfy'd. We 

 complain'd very much that he return'd at all in that ease. 



suitable Jacobite agent, requested him to accept such a post. He 

 declined, stating that after receiving his life (after 1715) from Govern- 

 ment he would not occupy himself with plotting, especiallv as he wished 

 to devote himself to developing his enterprises. 



•' He, however, added that ' when there's a push to be made I'll 

 venture all with the first ' (Lockhart Papers, ii. 249). He died in 1729. 



"He married (1) Lady Ann Bruce, daughter of the 2nd Earl of 

 Kincardine ; (2) Margaret, widow of Thos! Scott of Whitlaid, and 

 daughter of Sir Wni. Scott of Ancrum. 



•■ By his second wife he was father of John Murray of Broughton, 

 Prince Charles's secretary — the Traitor. 



•' His grandson, Sir David Murray, 4th Bart., was A.D.C. to Prince 

 Charles in the : 45. He was tried, condemned to death, but hi? lite was 

 saved, though his estates were forfeited and sold : the Stanhope 

 property (Stobo, etc.) in Peeblesshire was bought by Jas. Montgomery, 

 Lord Advocate, for £40,500. 



•'(Sir David Murray, 2nd Bart., was buried in the Canongate 

 Churchyard, 7th February 1729.)" 



1 Arthur Beid's Tavern. What ifi history of this tavern ? 



- A iam Cockburn of Ormiston. Senator of the College of Justice, 

 Lord Justice -Clerk, d. 1735. See pedigree table at p. 381 of these 

 Notes for connection by marriage between him and Dr. William Arthur. 



