[23] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 114.
[24] Lockhart.
[25] Lockhart, p. 116.
[26] Daniel De Foe on the Union, p. 64.
[27] De Foe, p. 322.
[28] Lockhart. Letter to one English Lord concerning the Treaty, 1702, vol. i. p. 272.
[29] Memoirs, p. 74. De Foe, p. 321.
[30] Memoirs, p. 74. De Foe, p. 371.
[31] Introduction to De Foe"s History of the Union, p. 16.
[32] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 31.
[33] Mackay.
[34] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 54.
[35] Memoirs of North Britain, p. 113.
[36] Wood"s Peerage, vol. i. pp. 714, 717; also Mackay"s Memoirs, p.
178.
[37] Lockhart Papers, vol. i. p. 115.
[38] Wood"s Peerage, art. Erskine of Mar.
[39] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 224.
[40] Memoirs of Scotland, p. 340.
[41] Cunningham"s Hist. Great Britain, p. 257.
[42] Ibid. p. 61.
[43] Swift"s Works, edited by Sir W. Scott, pp. 14, 72.
[44] The motto on Queen Anne"s coronation medal.
[45] Cunningham, p. 71.
[46] Memoirs of Scotland. Cunningham, p. 157.
[47] Swift"s Letters, vol. ii. p. 488; also p. 487, note by Sir W.
Scott.
[48] Wood"s Peerage. Swift"s Letters, p. 475. See note.
[49] Mackay"s Characters, p. 94.
[50] Swift added, in his own hand, to this eulogium, this remark: "He was little better than a conceited talker in company."
[51] The following letter shows that the Duke antic.i.p.ated the result of the duel.
London, Nov. 14, 1712.
My dear Son,
I have been doing all I could to recover your mother"s right to her estate, which I hope shall be yours. I command you to be dutiful towards her, as I hope she will be just and kind to you; and I recommend it particularly to you, if ever you enjoy the estate of Hamilton, and what may, I hope, justly belong to you, (considering how long I have lived with a small competence, which has made me run in debt,) I hope G.o.d will put it into your head to do justice to my honour, and pay my just debts. There will be enough to satisfy all, and give your brothers and sisters such provisions as the state of your condition and their quality in Scotland will admit of.
I pray G.o.d preserve you, and the family in your person. My humble duty to my mother, and my blessing to your sisters. If it please G.o.d I live, you shall find me share with you what I do possess, and ever prove your affectionate and kind father, whilst
HAMILTON.
I again upon my blessing charge you, that you let the world see you do your part in satisfying my just debts.
Addressed thus: "To my dear Son the Marquis of Chilsdale."
_Memoirs of the Life and Family of James Duke of Hamilton._
[52] The Lady Elizabeth Gerrard, the sister of Lady Mohun, and d.u.c.h.ess of Hamilton, is said to have been "a lady of great wit and beauty, and all the fine accomplishments that adorn her s.e.x." Through her the great estates in Lancashire and Staffordshire came into the family of Hamilton.
[53] Wood"s Peerage; also "Life of the Duke of Hamilton," a scarce tract, p. 102.
[54] c.o.xe MSS. 9128. Plut. cx.x.xviii. H. British Museum.
[55] Ibid. See a Letter in French, dated April 5, 1714, p. 1.
[56] c.o.xe MSS.
[57] Lord Mahon"s Hist. England, vol. i. p. 139. See also a scarce little book to be met with in the Advocate"s Library in Edinburgh (Atterbury"s Correspondence, with marginal notes by Lord Hailes): "By what accident these Letters have been preserved," says the n.o.ble Editor, "I know not: by what means they are now brought to light, I am not at liberty to explain."
[58] See the Letter before quoted.
[59] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 440.
[60] Lockhart of Carnwath, vol. i. p. 446; also "Notices of Lady Grange," by Dr. Mackay.
[61] See "Notices of Lady Grange," by K. Mackay, M.D., 3rd edition.
Glasgow, 1819.
[62] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 441.
[63] Lord Mahon, vol. i. p. 152.