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MASTERTON PAPERS
1710 and infected the whole arm; My Lord Tillicultrie1 dyd 1st;
octr. Ms. Buchanan dyd at Edr. 9 der. of a feaver.
1711. Mr. Ro1 vright his wyf dyd at Edr 15 Jarj. ; Hugh
Row dyed at Edr 8 febr; old John Hog in Ortchard dyed 1
febr. ; The Laird of Kinnaird, aged 82, dyed 18 febr.;2 Alexr.
Hog, skipper in Aloa, his wife dyed 13 febr. prices of meal
since martinmass last 7lib p. boll, bear 18lib, oats betwixt 6
and 7lib, peas and beans the same, malt 8lib.
The Laird of Newton, aged 84, dyed 18 febr at Falkirk.3 My
sone John was maried at Edr on Kat. Eedington 27 febr;
Janet Anderson, spouse to Thomas Red in Clack, dyed 10 march;
Sr Jon Bruce of Kinros dyed at Glasgow the 19th march ; M”
Keirie, aged 78, dyed att parkmilne the 29th march at 10 acloak
day ; The Countes of mar dyed at Stirling Castle 8th Apr. at
11 forenoon ; Christian Heigin dyed at ferry town 9th April at
6 aclock night; Countes of Weems4 and Kingkardine dyed
April; The Dauphine of France and the Emperor dyed
Aprile ; Jon Andersone, Craighead, dyed 17th May. My son
Jons wife bar her son 2d Decr 1711, and was baptised Francis
on the 3d. dark morise died ye 31 decr.
1712. —Christian Smitton dyed 10th Aprile; The young
Lady poufoulis5 dyed 18th Aprile; Jas. Allan, miller, dyed
12 August; My old Lady Mar in the north dyed in July.
The water of over and Black Devons very great; it was in our
summer house 24th Septr. Jon Chrystie dyed 9th Octr; Dk.
Hamiltone murdred by Mr. McKairtney after he had killd Lord
Moahn att a duel the 15 novr. ; The Laird of Clackmannan 6
dyed the 21st novr aged 63 ; Tho. Whyt, wright in Clack., dyed
the 24th Decr.
Bailly Erskine dyed the 23d April 1713; Fr masterton,
Jon8 son, dyed 4th may; Jon his 2d son was born 28 may ;
Charles son John was born 31 May 1717; my good Daughter
1 Sir Robert Stewart of Tillicoultry, Bart., one of the Senators of the College
of Justice, second son of Sir James Stewart of Beith, Bart.
2 Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird.—The Bruces and the Cumyns, pp. 362, 363.
3 John Wright. See above, 1689.
4 Mary, elder daughter of Sir John Robinson, Bart., of Farningwood,
Northants, second wife of David, fourth Earl of Wemyss.
5 Bruce of Powfoulis.
6 Either David Bruce or his brother John.