Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

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Bear meal 8llb boll; Fearm bear in Jary betwixt 13 and 14hb;
Pease and beans at 16Iib boll thr after.
Jo. Nikel my barbers wife, 23 novr; Forsyth of Garvel, at
Stling, 13 der; Laird of Airth utiibl^d' nt a duel by Laird
Achiiduw, .9S .nApr, ‘A rrf^nvuod ^ ab '. ■ . SO Apr neiit day*
’99. Sr Tho. nicolson of Tillicutry dyd at Edr 1 Jarii; my
mother dyd 14 Jar, at 8 in morning, and buried on 16, age 82 ;
Mr. Ro* Ramsay dyd at Edr, Jary.; Laird of Durie1 dyd at
Edr, febr; Mr. paul Gellies wyfe dyd 21 febr; Jon Sawers
dochter Kath. dyd 22 febr; David Lindsay 23 martch; mr. Vm
Lindsay dyed of ye jandies ye 16 Apr, at 4 in ye morning; Ro4
Colvill, wreater at Edr, dyd 12 may; Cli., Earle of Mar. dyd
23 July '90.2
Laird of Airth killd at a duel by Laird Achinboy, at Tor-
wood, 29 Apr.;3 Alexr Keir of Tillibody 4 dyd 29 may ; Hary
Graham, Hilton, at Edr, dyd 30 may; Sr Vm Bruce Kinross his
Lady, 30 may; Isobell Bruce, major Bruce daughter, dyd 23
June ; Laird Tillibody dyed 29 June; 5 provost dick his eldest
son, dyd 26 July ; John Hal in Kenet, dyd 28 July; Earle of
Southesk8 dyd 9 Ag.; John Gib and James Finne dyed
10 Ag.; Gilbert Robertson of Vhythouse dyd 1 Septr;
Laird of Breas, minister at Culross,8 dyed 13 Septr, on vch
day ther was a great Ecclipse of ye sun betwixt eight and
half ten; Jon moriss, Sande short, two workmen in Alloway,
dyd 16 Septr; Ja. Horn, quarrier at Clackm., dyd 21 Sepr.;
1 Probably Sir Alexander Gibson.
2 Written on margin and deleted. See above, 1689.
3 Captain William Bruce of Auchinbowie, eldest son of William Bruce of
PJewton, killed Charles Elphinstone of Airth, a minor, at the house of William
Lord Forester, or at a change house near the end of the Torwood, 29th April
1699. See The Bruces and the Cumyns, by M. E. Gumming Bruce, pp. 325
and 605, where the indictment of Captain William Bruce for murder is printed.
4 See above, 1681.
5 George Abercromby of Tullibody and Skeith. 26th June appears as the date
of his death in the copy of the inscription on the monument to his memory at the
old church of Tullibody given by Crawford in his Memorials of Alloa, p. 161.
Put see 29th June 1699 in Turnbull’s Diary in this volume of Miscellany. See
also 1681 above. 6 Charles, fourth Earl of Southesk.
7 Written on margin and deleted.
8 James Fraser of Brae, minister of Culross. See his Memoirs and Beveridge’s
Culross and Tulliallan.