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my Lord Ormestoun and who readyly would have dropt 

 something or other of it, My wife and I being his greatest 

 favourites. But of my terms with these people I need give 

 no other demonstration than that they had made but now 

 lately procur'd me a Commission whereby they made me 

 Professor of Botany and materia medica for N[orth] 

 B[ritain], Sub-Keeper of the R[oyal] G[ardens] at Edin- 

 burgh and anything relating to that subject that I was 

 pleas'd to put in the Commission myself exempting me 

 likewise from the abjuration. Thus I have giv'n y[ou]r 

 Grace a most dispassionat account of the whole affair so 

 far as it came to my knowledge If there was anything 

 more in it time and some other evidences will bring it to 

 light. I shall leave it to y[ou]r Grace's Judgment without 

 presuming to make any animadversions. Barns no doubt 

 would give y[ou]r Grace ane accurate account of all that 

 passt from our meeting till we saw y[ou]r Grace 1 and I'm 

 hopefull that y[ou]r Grace will very shortly receive from his 

 hand a more perfect deduction of what I am to undertake 

 by y[ou]r Grace's command. He having besids an infinitely 

 superior Judgm[ent] a much greater happyness in remem- 

 bring time with the names of Persons and places'' [9£ pages]. 



[" Endorsed. A paper left by Doct. Arthur when a dying 

 at Rome with Doct. Kenyon to be given to Lord Mar. 

 R[eceived] at Avig[non] Nov. 3rd, 1716."] 



The two following extracts from the Marchmont MSS. 

 published in the Fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part III of 

 the Historical Manuscripts Commission, are immediate 

 postscripts to the story written by Arthur: — 



{Page 163.) 



" Letter from Adam Cockburn. Lord Justice-Clerk, to 

 (Lord Polwarth). Edinburgh, 11th September 1715. — In- 

 timating the meetings of the noblemen in the north and 

 the setting up of King James's Standard at Braemar by 

 the Earl of Mar, who ' persists with great keenness in his 

 designe. Whether the defeating the design, Thursday's 

 night, they had on the Castle of Edinburgh will put a 

 stope to their march southwards I doe not know. The 



1 Arthur and Barns met Mar then after the failure. Was this at 

 Perth when thev heard of the conduct of Forbes .' 



