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

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24 Jar and buried ther; Tho Glen in gatesyd of Aloa dyed 30
Jar; Andrew mackee in monteath dyd 1 febr; MyLord Aber-
uchall on of ye Lords of Session dyd at Edr 16 febr;1 The Laird
of Gargunock dyd sudenly in his own house 18 febr; Geo.
bruce Grieve his son dyd 28 febr; Capt Dempster of Pitliver
dyd suddenly at Resyth 29 febr; old Vm Alexr my old man in
feritown dyed 9 martch ; old Ephie Ramsay relict of ye deceast
Wm Duthie dyd 17 mart; Francis Alexr in Kings meadow dyd
25 martch ; Rot. Stupart in ye wind of Tillibody dyd 26 martch ;
James Stupart his elder brother in Tillibody dyed 6 April;
Alexr Steinson capt of Edr Toun guard dyd thr 15 Ap Myr;
Lady Forester dyd at Letham 17th Apr; Ms Smeton dyed 7 May;
Mr. Alexr Bruce of Garlit dyd in Ireland 1 May. My daughter
brought furth hir thrid child ye 27 may at on in the morning
and christned Christian ye 30 may in clackm church, old John
Scotland in black Salin dyd 31 may; Baylie John Haliday in
Culross dyed 4 June; Ross, Archbishop of St Andrews, dyd at
Edr 12 June.2
Tho. Kirk merch. in Alloa dyd 27 July; Francis Kirk in
Alloa dyd 28 July; Kennets brother Lieutenant Charles3 was
killed by a canon bal of namure ye ... ; Charles Symp-
son, a child of Ja. Sympson in Sawchie, dyed ye 14 Agust. My
Lord Erskine was bom at Edr on Sunday betwixt 10 and 11 at
night ye 27 Agust called John.4 Margt. McGrugar, Tho. Benies
wyfe, dyd 21 Sepr.; Marg1 Christie, Jo" Chrystees daughter,
dyd 24 Sepr; The Laird of Blairhall5 yor dyd in fife, Sepr;
old Jo” Shorts wyfe at ye grean of Clackm. dyd 24 oct. sudenlie;
The Laird of Bedlay 6 dyd sudenly 8 oct; old John dickee tenant
in ye bowhouse of sauchie dyed sudenly ye 19 oct; my old aunt
succession till 1754, when the latter sold it to James Johnston, Esq., of Middle
Grange, also a bailie of Culross, in whose family the estate remains.
1 Sir Colin Campbell of Aberuchil.
2 Arthur Ross, died 13th June 1704. 3 Bruce. See above, 1672.
4 John, Lord Erskine, second son of John, sixth Earl of Mar, and Lady
Margaret Hay, died 2d December 1704. See below.
5 Thomas Bruce, fourth Baron of Blairhall, married Jean, daughter of Sir
James Henderson of Fordel. Their eldest son married Jane Leslie, daughter of
Lord Lindores, by whom an only daughter, who married Dugald Stewart of
Bute. Thomas’s younger brother, Sir Alexander, succeeded, but left no heirs-
male—line extinct.—The Bruces and the Cwnyns.
6 Roberton of Bedley.
1704