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relative, the Lord Justice-General. Whenever he arrives, the town
drummer is in requisition.
Item, 3 March 1629, for carrying the grath [baggage]
from Leeth to Edinburgh, . . . 6 sh.
Item, the fourth, to the drummer in Edinburgh, . 18 sh.
Item for some paper, .... 2 sh. 6d.
Item, the seventh, to the poor at Abbie yeat, . 4 sh.
Item, the ninth, to the poor, ... 4 sh.
Item to my Lord Chancler's cochmane, for driving tlie
coch with my Lord to my Lord Monteith his
loodging, . . . . . 24 sh.
Item for a pair of gilt spurres to my Lord, . 3 lb.
Item for dichting liis sword, ... 20 sh.
Item given to ane dwarffe, begging fra my Lord at his
chalmcr doore, . . . . 18 sh.
Item to my Lord Neper's cochman, . . 3 lb. 6 sh. 8 d.
Item to the footman, . . . . 24 sh.
On the 22d of May 1629 three extra horses are hired, ' my Lord
being invited to Darsay, by the Archbishope of St Andrews.' This
was Archbishop Spottiswoode, father of Montrose's devoted friend, Sir
Robert, ' the good President' who perished at St Andrews on the
scaffold, having been made prisoner at Philiphaugh. When the riots
against the Service-book, in 1G37, were becoming organised into a
war of extermination against the Bishops in Scotland, Guthrie mentions
that the first appearance of young Montrose at the seditious meetings
was particularly noted by them. ' Yea, when the Bishops heard that
he was come there to join, they were somewhat affrighted, having that
esteem of his parts, that they thought it time to prepare for a storm
when he engaged.' The visits at Darsy had probably established this