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Law is strong in witches and magic, he has very few ghost stories; indeed, according to his philosophy, even a common wraith of a living person is really the devil in that disguise. The learned Mr. Wodrow, too, for all his extreme pains, cannot be called a very successful amateur of spectres. A mighty ghost hunter was the Rev. Mr.
It is generally classed among the failings of the book-hunter that he looks only to the far past, and disregards the contemporary and the recent. Wodrow was a valuable exception to this propensity.
Menzies' own father died not long after, but the attempt to connect the wraith of a third person with that event is somewhat desperate. Wodrow has a tame commonplace account of the Bride of Lammermoor's affair.
To be sure David 'said he was dead'. 'Strange vouchsafments of Providence to a person of the doctor's temper and sense, moralises Wodrow. Curiously enough, a different version of Dr. Pitcairn's dream is in existence. Several anecdotes about the doctor are prefixed, in manuscript, to a volume of his Latin poems, which was shown to Dr. Hibbert by Mr.
Their cautiousness. Ghost appearing to a Jacobite. Ghost of a country tradesman. Case of telepathy known to Wodrow. Avenging spectres. Lack of evidence. Tale of Cotton Mather.
It may be assumed, therefore, with tolerable certainty, that George Gillespie was born early in the year 1613, a date which agrees with that engraven on his tombstone. Wodrow, indeed, states, on the authority of Mr Simpson, that Gillespie was born on the 21st of January, 1613. Nothing has been recorded respecting the youthful period of Gillespie’s life.
Wodrow adds a little touch of his own "Mr. Peirson with fury came out upon them with arms" and is silent on the fact of Mitchell's presence. Fountainhall's "Historical Notices," and a letter to Queensberry from Sir Robert Dalzell and others, quoted by Napier, ii. 427-8. Wodrow, iv. 184.
Sharpe, in his notes to Kirkton, says, on the authority of Wodrow, that Cornet Graham was shot by one John Alstoun, a miller's son, and tenant of Weir of Blackwood. This is not correct. There was a Cornet Graham so killed, but not till three years after Drumclog. "With a pitchfork they made such an openeing in my rone horse's belly."
The man would not take the oath; and he was accordingly shot in the presence of the requisite number of witnesses by the order of a competent authority. On the truth of the details given both by Wodrow and Walker it is impossible to form any conclusion. Wodrow gives no authority for his version.
Loch Lomond Expedition. Wodrow Correspondence, p. 30. Also Reay's History of the Rebellion, p. 286. Macleay, p. 279. The memoirs of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, have been written in various forms, and with a great diversity of opinions.
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