M 168.1

The 7 doz. and 1 bottles of mountain were not consumed at one large
leave-taking party at the end of the 1794-95 sojourn at Auchinleck,
but would seem to be the total amount drunk from 1 July 1794, when
JB and his two eldest daughters joined Sandy at Auchinleck, to
11 Jan 1795, the next to the last day before JB left Auchinleck
by himself, the others having departed some time before (Book of
Company).

Note: the Book of Company included a record of wine and spirits
served; on the 1794-95 visit, however, this record failed to be
kept after 11 July.

M 172

Mr. MacDowal. Perhaps William M'Dowall of Garthland; see M'Kerlie's
*Lands in Galloway* (1906) i.332-40. Also, Record Society. *List of Faculty of Advocates*. He was adm. 1771, d. 1810, unmarr. M.P. Renfrewshire 1783-86, Ayrshire 1789-90, Glasgow Burghs 1790-1802, Renfrewshire 1802-10.

JB attended the Circuit at Ayr, 13 and 14 Sept 1787. He wrote to Robt Boswell 12 Feb 1788, "When I was in Scotland last Autumn I went to the Circuit at Ayr, and was employed in any causes that were before the Court." JB did not get to Dumfries until the Circuit was over (it opened 19 Sept and evidently all business was done on that day of by the 20th. (*Edinburgh Advertiser*, 14-18, and 21-25 Sept 1787).

M 172

MACDOWAL, ?WILLIAM. "Conclusion of Mr. MacDowal's Case"

See J 104, p.opp. p.5

Conclusion of
Mr. MacDowal's Case.
Impatience will be
provoked at the length
of my narration. But
superfluity is sooner
perused than omission
supplied. &c --