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MASTERTON PAPERS
1704 Bessie mrton aged 96 dyed at parm. 4 novr; my Lord Erskine
dyed ye 2d decer at 11 at night ; Christian Christee, Hugh Alexr
wyfe, dyed 6 decer; Sr Jon Bell provost of Glasgow dyd 7 der;
My Lord Whytlaw1 dyd at Edr ye 13 der; Collonel McGill dyd
sudenly at Edr 15 der; Ja Don dyd 22 der; Jon Simpson, a child
of Ja Simpsons, dyed 30 der; . . . ferguson, daughter to Rot.
ferguson, dyed 31 der. This last year a good summer and
harvest; The victuall fra Yhits to Sepr 10 merks, now ye bear
at 6 lib, pease 4 lib, meal 8 merks.
1705. Marjorie Smeiton in Alloa dyd 7 Jar. ; old James
simpson wyfe, Agnes may, dyd 9 Jarii. ; Earle of Errol dyd;
Baylie Russall in Sterling his wyfe dyed 12 Jar. ; The Earle of
Erroll2 dyd ye begining of Jar. ; Tho. Moriss, waker in Cam-
buss, his wyfe dyed 28 Jar.; Ms. Elisabeth paterson, daughter
of ye Archbisop,3 dyd at Edr. 10 martch; old Thomas Thomson
in grange, aged 88, dyd 24 mart; Jon Hunter, son to Rot.
Hunter, dyed 26 mart. ; Mr. Duchar, his young son James
dyd 2 Apr. ; Tho. Norie, wreater in Stling, dyd 13 may of ane
decay; Sr James Hackett of Pitfiran dyd by a fall from his
horse near to his own house may; My Lord Fesdo,4 a Lord
of Session, dyed suddenly 9 June; old Adam Primrose in
Geilehome dyed 18 June; Jo11 Stein in Grange dyd 19 June ;
Helin Dickee in Sauchie dyd 11 July; John Law in Cambus
dyd sudenly by a fall from his horse 12 July ; John Smeton
dyd 10 August; Earle of March 5 and generall Ramsay6 dyd
both suddenly at Edr. ye 9 Sepr. ; Ro*. Ker in Alloa dyd
7 oct. Aloa’s hill all snow this 1 oct. Blind Laird of Grange
dyd at home suddenly 14 oct. ; Major John Neilson dyd at
Edr. 29 Oct. The Lady Kinnaird,7 aged 84, dyd 31 oct.
My Lord Forrester dyed novr.; Mr. Carmichall of bamblee
1 Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw, Justice-Clerk, died 14th December
1704.—Senators of the College of Justice.
2 John, Earl of Errol, died 30th December 1704.—Douglas’s Peerage.
s See her father’s death below, 1708.
4 Sir Jas. Falconer of Phesdo, died June 10,1706, Biovin’s Monumental Inscrip¬
tions in Greyfriars Churchyard. The inscription on the monument is illegible.
8 Lord William Douglas, second son of William, first Duke of Queensberry,
was created Earl of March 20th April 1697.—Douglas’s Peerage.
6 General George Ramsay of Carriden, Commander in Scotland.
7 Possibly widow of Sir George Kinnaird of Inchture, knighted in 1661, and
died December 1689.