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He was alive in 1227, when he attested the record of the perambulation of the boundaries of the lands of the Abbey of Aberbrothock, and in the List of the Oliphant family charters dated 1594 in the Register House in Edinburgh there is an entry of "Ane charter under the Great Seill made be Alexr to Magnus sone to Gylcryst sometime Earle of Angus of the Erledome of South Caithness" which included Berridale and lands which Magnus' granddaughter's great-grandson Malise II conveyed to Reginald Chen III, known as "Morar na Shein," after 1340.
Fergusone, in case he survive me I do heirby make my letter will as follows: "First, I recommend my soule to God, hopeing by the meritorious righteousness of Jesus Christ to be saved; secondly, I recommend my body to be decently and orderly interred; and in the third plaice nominate and appoynt the sd. Alexr. John Wilsone and John Nicholsone his servitor. "ANN. LAURIE, "JO. WILSON, Witness.
Barclay, in his catechism, 1673, clearly asserts Bunyan's own ideas of the resurrection. But in the face of these, and a thousand similar declarations, the grossest calumnies were asserted by a fanatic clergyman, Alexr. Ross, in his View of all Religions: "The Ranters are a sect of beasts that neither divide the hoof, nor chew the cud; that is to say, very unclean ones.
It is a sweet, secluded spot, and Cock-Robin it was September was chanting his cheerful noonday song over the sleepers when I was there. At Craigdarrock House is kept Annie's will, a copy of which I give. As a will, simply, it is of no special value. As Annie Laurie's, it will be read with interest. "I, Anna Laurie, spouse to Alexr. Fergusone of Craigdarrock.
Prose Works, vol. xxiii. p. 72. See Tales of the Genii. The Talisman of Oromanes. Eldest daughter of William Fraser of Balnain. See Burgon's Life of P.F. Tytler, 8vo, Lond. 1859. Mrs. Tytler died in London, aged eighty-four, in 1837. Alexr. Fraser Tytler, 1747-1813. Besides his acknowledged works, Lord Woodhouselee published anonymously a translation of Schiller's Robbers as early as 1792.
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