as entered L56,325. The books were closed August 3rd of the
same year, and on the last day of subscriptions there was entered
L14,125, reaching the total of L400,000, the amount apportioned to
Scotland. The cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, in their corporate
capacity, each took L3,000 and Perth L2,000. Of the subscriptions there
were eight of L3,000 each; eight of L2,000 each; two of L1,500, and one
each of L1,200 and L1,125; ninety-seven of L1,000 each; but the great
majority consisted of L100 or L200 each. The whole amount actually paid
up was L220,000. This may not seem to be a large amount for such a
country as Scotland, but as already noted, the country had been ruined
by the English Act of 1660. There were five or six shires which did not
altogether contain as many guineas and crowns as were tossed about every
day by the shovels of a single goldsmith in Lombard street. Even the
nobles had but very little money, for a large part of their rents was
taken in kind; and the pecuniary remuneration of the clergy was such as
to move the pity of the most needy, of the present; yet some of these
had invested their all in hopes that their children might be benefited
when the golden harvest should come. Deputies in England received
subscriptions to the amount of L300,000; and the Dutch and Hamburgers
subscribed L200,000.

Those Highland chiefs who had been considered as turbulent, and are so
conspicuous in the history of the day have no place in this record of a
species of enterprise quite distinct from theirs. The houses of Argyle,
Athol, and Montrose appear in the list, as families who, besides their
Highland chiefships, had other stakes and interests in the country; but
almost the only person with a Highland patronymic was John MacPharlane
of that ilk, a retired scholar who followed antiquarian pursuits in the
libraries beneath the Parliament House. The Keltic prefix of "Mac" is
most frequently attached to merchants in Inverness, who subscribed their
hundred.

It is probable that a list of Highlanders who subscribed stock may be of
interest in this connection. Only such names as are purely Highland are
here subjoined with amounts given, and also in the order as they appear
on the books:

26 February, 1696:
John Drummond of Newtoun L600
Adam Gordon of Dalphollie 500
Master James Campbell, brother-german to the Earle
of Argy