Series 1 > Journal of the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock, 1683-1687

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ERSKINE’S JOURNAL
art and part with them in the crimes foresaid, and punished there
fore with all vigour to the terror of others; requiring hereby all
sheriffs, stewards, bailies of regalities and baileries to apprehend
and commit to prison any of the persons above written, our
rebels. . . . Given under our Signet at Edinburgh the sixth of
August, One thousand six hundred seventy and five years, and of
our reign the twenty seventh year.’
It may be noticed that Lieutenant-General Drummond, men¬
tioned in the king’s letter formerly quoted, was the illustrious
Warrior and Statesman who had been Major-General of all the
forces in Scotland from 1666 till lately, when he lay eighteen
months in Dumbarton Castle. The year before Charles i.’s death,
to wit in 1684, that monarch had restored him to favour, and made
him General of the Ordnance. By James n. he was appointed
General of all the forces ill Scotland, and a Lord of the Treasury,
and, on the 16th of August 1686, he was created Viscount of
Strathallan, Lord Drummond of Cromlix. He wrote a History of
the Family of Drummond. It exists in manuscript, and is much
esteemed. The eldest brother, David 3d Lord Madderty, was
the founder of the public library of Inverpaffray. To the personal
attention of the first Viscount Strathallan the Library-House of
Dunblane is much indebted. Besides arranging its furniture,
which has lasted till now, his Lordship caused his tenants and
servants to perform the carriage of the materials. There is in the
archives of the Leightonian library, an autograph ‘ Register of the
Bibliotheck,’ as it is titled, by the last Bishop of Dunblane,
Douglas, great-grandfather of Lord Glenbervie. The Bishop had,
it would appear, endeavoured thus to amuse himself after the
Revolution; for the curious paper is dated ‘ att Dunblane the first
day of July one thousand six hundred fourscore eleven years.’ Of
the ' Register of the Bibliotheck ’ the following is an extract:
‘ Amongst many other good providences which concurred to the
furtherance of this good work, a verie speciall one was, the great
and oppertune assistance afforded by William Late Lord Viscount
Strathalan then Lieutenant Generali and Commander in Chief of
all his Majestie’s forces in the Kingdome of Scotland. This noble
Lord, as out of a generous propensity to advance all good works,
so also haveing a peculiar and profound respect and veneratione
to that Most Excellent Bishop his dear freind and intimatt Did
concerne himself most seriouslie and effectually to bring the work
to its full perfectione. The fabrick of thejhouse, its furniture