Memoirs of the lives and characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie

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brother, who was acquainted with the
whole : they never had any reserve nor
secrets from one another, and he was
ever fully sensible of the obligations he
and his whole family had to her, not
only for her constant advice, and assist-
ance to the smallest particular, often to
the neglect of her own affairs, but from
the time she was married to the time of
my dear uncle's death, her purse and
credit, when she could no otherwise sup-
ply their demands, was always at their
command ; till sometimes it amounted
to very large sums, as appears by her
books, which she kept from the time of
her marriage to the last, with the clear,
strict exactness of a merchant. Nor
were her nephews ignorant of all this,
and had often expressed their sense of
obligations to her upon their own ac-
count, which are too well known, and
too many to be related ; so I will not
here say more of a subject that was an