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When arranging the family
papers at Duffus House, Gordonston, and Lesmurdie Cottage, the
residences respectively of my brother, Sir Archibald Dunbar, my cousin,
Sir Alexander Gordon Cumming, and my kinsman, Captain James Stewart, I
occasionally found documents which appeared to me to throw considerable
light on old social life, or to be otherwise interesting, and which I
therefore sent to the local press.
Wishing to give them a
more extensive circulation, I now venture to offer them, systematically
arranged, to the public.
E. Dunbar Dunbar
Sea Park, July 1865
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. EDUCATION.............................................1-16
II. MEDICAL,.............................................17-29
III. PRICES OF PROVISIONS.................................30-32
IV. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS..................................33-34
V. TRAVELLING...........................................35-37
VI. TAVERN BILLS.........................................38-41
VII. FIELD SPORTS.........................................42-46
VIII. QUARANTINE...........................................47-51
IX. FISHINGS.............................................52-60
X. IMPRESSING FOR THE NAVY..............................61-63
XI. SMUGGLING............................................64-70
XII. THE FAMILIES OF BURGIE AND OF GRANGE.................71-76
XIII. AN EXTRAVAGANT AND UNDUTIFUL WIFE....................77-79
XIV. OFFICE OF HERITABLE SHERIFF OF MORAY.................80-86
XV. TRANSPORT OF A PRISONER, AND JAIL OF INVERNESS.......87-92
XVI. COUNTRY MATTERS......................................93 100
XVII. EDINBURGH GOSSIP....................................101-104
XVIII. LETTERS FROM LADIES OF RANK.........................105-127
XIX. GENIAL LETTERS......................................128 137
XX. YOUNGER SONS........................................138-143
XXI. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS.................................144-152
XXII. DRINKING-SONG.......................................153-158
XX1I1. ELGIN TOWN-COUNCIL..................................159-174
XXIV. INCORPORATED TRADES OF ELGIN........................175-178
XXV. AN INVERNESS BAILIE’S ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE.........179-184
XXVI. MERCHANTS’ LETTERS..................................185-191
XXVII. RECEIPTS AND ACCOUNTS...............................192-199
XXVIII. POETIC EFFUSIONS AND BEGGING LETTERS................200-204
XXIX. INVENTORY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE....................205-213
XXX. PARLIAMENTARY EXPENSES AND POLITICS.................214-231
XXXI. ECCLESIASTICAL......................................232-260
XXXII. WITCHES.............................................261-273
XXXIII. FUNERALS AND FUNERAL LETTERS........................274-283
XXXIV. WILL OF THE DEAN OF SALISBURY, 1618.................284-291
XXXV. CATTLE-STEALING.....................................292-296
XXXVI. JOHN, EARL OB' SUTHERLAND: HIS INFLUENCE AND POWER..297-304
XXXVII. MILITARY,...........................................305-322
XXXVIII REBELLION, 1715-1716................................323-335
XXXIX. REBELLION, 1745-1746................................336-388
XL.CORONATION OF GEORGE III: SUBMISSION TO HIS GOVERNMENT.389-392
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The documents in this
volume are from the same repositories as those in the former series;
but, the majority of them being exceedingly difficult to decipher, it
was not in my power to offer them sooner to the public; indeed, except
for the kind welcome accorded to its predecessor, this second series
would not have been published.
E. Dunbar Dunbar
Sea Park, August 1866.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. FEUDS BETWEEN POWERFUL FAMILIES, . 1-7
II. THE PLANTATION OF NOVA SCOTIA, AND KNIGHT-BARONETS THEREOF, 1625,
8-21
III. LETTERS FROM THE COURTS OF JAMES VI. AND CHARLES I., . . . . 22-36
IV. CIVIL WAR IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I., 37-56
V. SCHOLASTICAL AND BIBLIOTHECAL, 57-68
VI. NOBLE AND EXEMPLARY WIVES, . . 69-74
VII. AN ORDER FOR DRESS; AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE; AND A MARRIAGE, . . 75-80
VIII. INVITATION TO THE FUNERAL OF A COUNTESS, 1658; OBSEQUIES OF A
LAIRD, 1663, AND OF A KNIGHT, 1666, . . 81-85
IX. CHURCH DISCIPLINE, .... 86-90
X. THE MAGISTRATES AND COMMUNITY OF INVERNESS KEPT IN TERROR BY A
TROUBLESOME NEIGHBOUR, 1676, . 91-95
XL A KNIGHT-BACHELOR’S FEES OF COMMISSION, 1682, ...... 96-103
XII. EAST NEW JERSEY, 1684, 104-114
XIII. EXPORT OF GRAIN ; RETURN CARGO ; SKIPPERS’ LETTERS, . . 115-123
XIV. FRIENDLY LETTERS FROM NOBLEMEN, . 124-127
XV. GIPSIES; BOTTLES; AND BUGS, . 128-130
XVI PUBLIC REVENUE: HOW COLLECTED, 1701, 131-137
XVII. RECEPTION OF A CREDITOR BY A ROSS-SHIRE BARONET, 1712, . . 138-140
XVIII. POWER OF THE LAIRD OF A BARONY, 141-146
XIX. GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS, . 147-154
XX. HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES AND SERVANTS’ WAGES,..............155-157
XXI. RAISING MEN FOR THE ARMY, . . 158-163
XXII. ELGIN BURGH POLITICS; ABDUCTION OF MAGISTRATES AND IRRUPTION OF
HIGHLANDERS, .... 164-174
APPENDIX No. L,............175-178
APPENDIX No. II.,..........179-183
INDEX, ....... 185-199
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