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THE LAIRDS OF GLENLYON.
To the I> & Ensign's pay from 17 June to 11 Aug.
being two months, at 93. 16 p. mo. ...
To 400 boats from the 14 July to 11 Aug.
To the Judge Advocate for two months
To the Doctor and paym r -
To the hoboyes
To on man to the Coll.
To Gent Hospital to 1 1 Aug.
To Brudges Hospital
To the Cap's- Clothes in full ...
To laid out on the Cap ts - funeral expense
for linining and several oyr necessaryes
taken by the Major's Lady ... ...^131
To laid out in the house where he dyed, &
paid before Captain Fonab ... ... 127
To laid out at Brudges, where he was
buried, as per particular acct. ... ... 142
1696,
10
16
...£187 12

... 112 9

2 4

12 O

... 20 8

14 O

... 25 15

2 12

... 29 14

£402 14 o .£402 14 o
Campbell of Glenlyon was, at his death, in the sixty-fifth
year of his age. His early education had been good. He
was a man of polished and plausible manners, and had
mixed in early life in the best society. Like other men
who have left a name joined to cruel deeds, his personal
appearance was extremely prepossessing. Tall, well-built,
'vith a profusion of curling fair hair, and a face of almost
feminine delicacy, he was in youth a very Adonis. Left a
minor with a large but burdened property, and shut out from
active pursuits by the stern rule of Cromwell, he early gave
the rein to selfish pleasures, a course in which he was
confirmed by the gaieties which followed the Restoration.
His greatest vices were gambling and the love of
display, to which in later days he added an excessive
love of wine. In another age he might have been a

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