Spottiswoode Society > History of the affairs of the Church and State of Scotland from the beginning of the reformation to the year 1568 > Volume 1

" This Register of Assignations of Ministers' Stipends,
or Book of the Piatt for one year, was presented to
the Library by Bishop Keith in 1746. It is a large
folio of paper, well written, but frequently deformed
by deletions or interlineations, and it is not quite
complete. At the beginning is a list of the ' pryces
of thevictualls' in the respective districts of Scotland."
By the kindness of the Right Rev. Dr Russell,
Bishop of Glasgow, the Editor is enabled to add a
few particulars respecting Bishop Keith's family and
descendants, which the reader is requested to consider
as supplying the deficiency mentioned in the Sketch of
his Life (p. lvii). The Bishop married a lady named
Stewart, by whom he had only one child, a daughter,
named Clementina Stewartina, who married Mr Car-
michael, of Leith. The offspring of this marriage was
also a daughter, who became the first wife of Mr
Douglas, merchant in Leith. Several children were
the issue of this marriage, one of whom, Stewart
Douglas, Esq. also merchant in Leith, was the father
of the Rev. Archibald Douglas, who was curate to
the Venerable Dr Bayley, Archdeacon of Stow in the
Diocese of Lincoln, at the date of that gentleman's
death in August 1844, and who is the great-great-
grandson of Bishop Keith.
Several letters of the Bishop are still preserved,
but they relate to no affairs of the slightest importance.
Bishop Keith's private copy of his " History," with
his own annotations, corrections, and additions, is said
to have been acquired by Sir Walter Scott, Bart., and
to be in the Library of Abbotsford.
J. P. L.
Edinburgh, November 1S44.