Series 3 > Early letters of Robert Wodrow, 1698-1709

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
P. 95 n. 1. Thomas Davidson. He was entered as a student of
Theology at Glasgow in 1694, and at Leyden in 1698 ; licensed
by the Scots Presbytery in London on December 12, 1700 ;
ordained as Queen’s Chaplain to Stirling Castle in 1709 ; called
to be Minister of St. Mary’s Church, Dundee, in 1731 ; died
1760. He was an ancestor of Randall Thomas Davidson,
Archbishop of Canterbury. Munimenta, hi. 243; Leyden,
Album ; Fasti, v. 316.
P. 99 n. 2. Wickleifs Translation of the Evangelists. In the
Quaestor’s accounts of Glasgow University there is an entry
under January, 1697 ‘ For ane old parchment MS. being
Clement of Langtouns Harmony of the Evangelists englished
by Wicliffe £66.’ Munimenta, hi. 436. In the MS. cata¬
logue it is entered as ‘ Clement of Lanthon. A book maid
of the four Gospelers. [And the Finale Pistlis. Translated
by Wycliffe.] 40.’
P. 115 n. 1. Robert Birnie. Son of John Birxhe of Broomhill,
Minister of Caerlaverock. He and his brother James went to
America as surgeon and ‘ sea-apprentice ’ respectively, and
both died ‘ in the Indies.’ Fasti, ii. 258-9 ; Birnie, J., Account
of the Families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill, Edin., 1833,
p. 69-
P. 160 n. 1. Hon. Robert Boyle. This may refer to Lord Tarbat’s
letter to him on the Second Sight. A copy of this letter is
printed as an enclosure in a letter from Lord Reay to Samuel
Pepys, October 24, 1699, in Private Correspondence ... of S.
Pepys, London, 1926, vol. i. pp. 219-25. Pepys comments on
it in his answering letter of November 21,1699- Ibid., pp. 240-3.
P. 284 re. 1. In British Museum Additional MSS. 32005, ff. 47-52,
there is ‘ A short account of the famelie of Hamilton, copied
. . . aff the principall written by William Hamilton of Wishaw
with his owne hand, anno 1706.’ This is not in the Biblio¬
graphical Index of A history of the House of Hamilton, by Lt.-
Colonel George Hamilton, Edin., 1933.
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