Archibald, is in verie good health, blessed be God; and he is verie desiros to hear the like of you, my dear honerbl master; and likewaise if ye knew the nakednesse that poor Croupie is in, your heart would be sorry for to see his nakednese; but poor Croupie cannot help it, till it shall please the Lord to bring you weell hom, as I do wish from my heart; or if it wer your honer's will to writ the good wife or to Mr. Reid they would not let me be naked, as I am; and your honer did nott help and send word to hyd my nakednese, poor Croupie will be in the dust ere ye com hom. And alwise, deer honrble master, I am still keeping the schooll, with Archibald, and, blessed be the Lord, he is lerning werie weell; and the master is werie weell content with him. No more at pressent, but untill death, I am, honered Sir, your humble, and poor, and obedient servant, Croupie, till death, "A. CROUGHTLY."

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Although pugnacious, the captive was honest. It was too bad not only to fine him a crown for the nose, but also to impose jailer's fees -

"To Sir ALEXANDER DUNBAR, at Duffes,

"ELGIN, TOLBOTH, Maye 18th, 1780.

"HONBLE. SIR,-I had the misforton of giving a chape to a man's nose in this pleace; he has given me a right to a stout dryy roum, that one drop of reen

hes not touched me thes tuo days. This day a Court was hold on me, and fined in five shelings, and jelorfis, which I am not able to pay. Pray, Sir, be so good as to write any of your aquantanss to relive me, and your servant shall be for ever oblidged.

"I shall direckly com a longe with your servant, and worke til you be cleaired of what the damages is, Sir, GAVIN SKEOCH."

XXIX. INVENTORY OF HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

If this "Inventar" may be taken as a correct index of their comforts and conveniences, the Morayshire gentry had no cause of complaint.

"Inventar of plenishing in Thunderton's lodging in Duffus, May 25, 1708

"Camlet hangings and curtains, feather bed and bolster, two pillows, five pair blankets, and an Inglish blanket, a green and white cover, a blew and white chamber pot, a blue and white bason, a black jopand table and two looking glasses, a jopand tee table with a tee-pot and plate and nine cups and nine dyshes and a tee silver spoon, two glass sconces, two little bowles with a leam stoap and a pewter head, eight black ken chairs with eight silk cushens conform, an easie chair with a big cushen, a jopand cabinet with a walnut tree stand, a grate, shuffle, tonges, and brush; in the closet, three piece of paper hangings, a chamber box with a pewter pan therein, and a brush for cloaths.

"Closet next the Strypt Room.

"Four dishes, two assiets, six broth plates, and twelve flesh plates, a quart flagon, and a pynt flagon, a pewter porenger, and a pewter flacket, a white iron jaculate pot, and a skellet pann, twenty-one timber plates, a winter for warming plates at the fire, two highland plaids, and a sewed blanket, a bolster, and four pillows, a chamber box, a sack with wool, and a white iron driping pann.

"In the Fire Closet.

"A standing bed with green cloath curtains and slips of silk sewens thereon, a feather bed, bolster, and two pillows, two pair blankets, and a single blanket, a leam chamber pot, and one timber chair.

"In the next Closet.

"A standing bed with green hangings, feather bed, bolster, and three pair of blankets.

"In the Green Room.

"A sute of stamped green cloath hangings, and a stamped stuff green bed, two feather beds and a bolster, a couple of pillows, three pair blankets, and a single blanket, and an Inglish blanket, five winscot chairs, a chist of olive-wood drawers, a table, and two stands, and a looking-glass, a pewter chamber pot, a chamber box and pewter pan therein.

"In the Garret.

"Two tyks of beds, and two bolsters, and a tyk of a bolster, two feather stands, with a large basket and a deal of feathers, and a frying pann.

"In the farest Closet.

"Seventeen drinking glasses, with a glass tumbler and two decanters, a oil cruet, and a vinegar cruet, a urinel glass, a large blew and white posset pot, a white leam posset pot, a blew and white bowl, a dozen of blew and white leam plates, three milk dishes, a blew and white leam porenger, and a white leam porenger, four jelly pots, and a little butter dish, a crying chair, and a silk craddle.

"In the Moyhair Room.

"A sute of stamped cloath hangings, and a moyhair bed with feather bed, bolster, and two pillows, six pair blankets, and an Inglish blanket, and a twilt, a leam chamber pot, five moyhair chairs, two looking glasses, a cabinet, a table, two stands, a table cloak, and window hangings, a chamber box with a pewter pann, a leam bason, with a grate and tongs and a brush; in the closet two carpets, a piece of Arres, three pieces lyn'd strypt hangings, three wawed strypt curtains, two piece gilded leather, three trunks, and a craddle, a chamber box and a. pewter pann, thirty