Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Alt Ref NoD(W)1778/III/231
TitleArchibald Wallace, merchant of Edinburgh to [Earl of Dartmouth]
Date22 Jan 1766
DescriptionEdinburgh, "Among other things which were done by a late ministry which shewed their little regard to religion, was the making of the chaplaincy of the garrison in the Castle of Edinburgh a sinecure, by giving the salary , that ever since the Reformation was given to a minister of the Established Church in Scotland residing within the Garrison, to one Mr Home, a friend of John Home's, formerly a minister of the Establishment, now Conservator of the Scotch Privileges in Holland"
For full description see HMC 15th Report Appendix 1
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