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waiting for him and told me where he had a Boat. But 

 not beeing able to bear the thot of bringing y[ou]r Grace 

 the first disniall tidings I chose rather to run any hazard in 

 the Country not without some hopes of doing some service 

 in the Border where I heard they needed to be prompted 

 a little. We got Horses from a niece of mine at Palton l 

 where I had made my wife believe I was to be all night 

 and crossing the Pentland hills went to Sir Dav[id] 

 Forb[es] 2 widow's house, ane Aunt of my Wife's eight 

 miles distant from town where I got one of her Sons to 

 goe in express to get the news and to tell my poor wife 

 that I was well, whom I pity'd mightily having deluded 

 her with so much success that we never had parted with 

 such remarkable chearfulness and indearments and to 

 whom I knew I had never given the lest suspicion by 

 any imaginable token. 3 She sent me a most Lamentable 

 Letter telling me that she had been visited by my Lord 

 Orm[istoun] Her Brother Baron Clerk and Sir Jo[hn] 

 Ingles' airly that morning, who rinding her Ignorance 

 too plainly by her inundable [sic] astonishment desir'd 

 her to invite me home in their name with abundance of 

 line promises that I cannot think of yet without t 

 utmost scorn 5 which I desir'd her to let you understand e} 

 My w[ife's] interest lying in the neighbourhood ~ I got 

 what money I demanded and her Factor's horse that he 

 had lately bought out of the Greys. And meeting some 

 Teviotdale Gentlemen at Lady Mary Scots s House three 



1 Palton. I suppose Polton ? 



- Sir David Forbes of Xewhall — married Catherine, aunt of Baron 

 Clerk. (See pedigree table at p. 381.) 



3 Again reference to the betrayal. 



Sir John Inglis of Craniond, son-in-law of Lord Ormistoun and 

 brother-in-law of Baron Clerk. (See pedigree table at p. 381.) 



5 This tri'o to which Arthur refers with scorn was really a family 

 party closely related to himself. Arthur married Baron Clerk's sister ; 

 Bar^n Clerk married Sir John Inglis' sister : Sir John Inglis married 

 a daughter of Lord Ormistoun, to whom he was also stepson — so that 

 Inglis was Ormistoun : s son-in-law and also stepson ; Clerk was I 

 bruther-in-law and the husband of Ormistoun's stepdaughter. The 

 pedigree table at p. 381 shows the relationships. And then, as appears 

 later" in Arthur's narrative, to them he owed his appointment as 

 Professor. 



6 Had Mrs. Arthur communication with Mar ''. 



' This refers to Cairnsmuir. Mrs. Arthur's first husband was Sir 

 John Lawson of Cairnsmuir. (See pedigree table at p. 3S1.) 

 8 Ladv Marv Scot's House. Where ? 



