Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

Tin: KAKL s VISITS TO EDixr.rnc.n. ccm
Accounts kept by Hew Sinclair, who about tlii? time became chamberlain
to the carl, and was continued as such for many years by the second Earl of
Ilartfell, give in some detail the carl's movements during the last years of
his life. lie was back in FAlinburgli by 29tb November IGiS, and remained
until May following, ilcntiou is made of the purchase of a book called the
" Independents Joyntcr" for £3 Scots, and of another book "called the Con-
fession of Faitli" for 12s.; also of two payments for carrying money to the
earl's lodging, one of the entries being—for carrying 8000 mcrks tlicre in a
" creil " by a " pyner," Ss. Scots. Lady Janet, tlie earl's second daughter,
receives £100 which she had disbursed on behalf of her brother, the master,
as the earl's second sou was styled. On 3d May the earl returned home by
Auchinoon and Carnwath, where he probably visited his Countess's daughter,
thence to Douglas, and thence to iloffat, Lochinaben, and Annan. Eut he
did not remain long, as on the 21th he v,"as again at Moffat for a night on his
way to Edinburgh, whither he journeyed by Dafnliall, near Eddleston, in
Teeblesshire. There is on 29th Maj- a payment made to " "William Johnston,
the whistler." Later in this year the Earl of Hartfell again visited Annan-
dale, as on 26tli October another journey to Edinburgh, this time by tlie
Crook and Linton, is chronicled; and also his return a fortnight later by
Carlops, Carnwath, and Pettinain, taking with birn 2 books " called the
Confession of Faith and two dozen single Catechises."
In January 1G50 the earl purchased two pair of pistols from John
Falconer for £GG, 13s. Scots; and Sir Lues Stev.'art's man "for spearing out
4000 merks," probably finding out a lender of that sum to the earl, received
£13, Cs. 8d. On 4th April the earl is mentioned as being at Dumfries. On
the lOtli lie started, accompanied by si.x. servants on horseback, for the Mcrse,
obtaining the services of a guide between Newbie and Langholm. At
Langholm he stayed for a night, and the sight of " some poor women incar-
cerat for witchcraft" excited his sympathy, and he gave them £2, 18s.
From that place he rode to Selkirk and Kelso, visiting both at Floors and