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much of those of the barbarous barons whom he and his family had sup-planted in the provostship. *

John Anderson represented Glasgow in the first parliament after therevolution of 1688, in the deliberations of which he took an active part.He was also several times Provost of Glasgow , between 1689 and 1704.+

In so far as is known, the politics of the last of the Andersons variedfrom those of his predecessors ; but as for his having entertained anyserious preference for the precepts, the practices, or the priestcraft of theCovenanters, over those of the Carthusians , is what some persons may bedisposed to regard as problematical. Some accounts, indeed, represent himas declining to recognise the authority of the Committee of Privy Coun-cil, before whom he was indicted ; and it is not impossible but that theremay have been some share of personal feeling in this, from his lookingupon them as “ loons ” of the same fraternity as those who had succes-sively betrayed and persecuted Mary, sold Charles the First to the Eng­ lish , crouched and succumbed to Cromwell; and who were now endeav-ouring to carry out those measures of insane tyranny, by means of whichthe ferocious and infatuated bigot, James the Second, sought to re-establishthe defunct superstitions of Catholicism. It is also remarkable that thisJohn Anderson should have been the person deputed by the citizens ofGlasgow to proceed to London , upon the restoration, to solicit Charles theSecond to sit for his portrait; and which portrait still remains in theTown-hall.

That after the decease of the last John Anderson of Dowhill, the pecu-niary circumstances of the family were comparatively reduced, is appa-rent. This, however, in some measure arose from the division of his pro-perty after his death.

John Anderson, the elder, had purchased a part of the barony of Cath-cart, named Newlands, on which he erected, (for the times,) a commo-dious and handsome dwelling-house, laid out gardens, &c. To this resi-dence Anderson gave the name of his town property, Dowhill, which itat this day bears. His son, John Anderson, the younger, having marriedtwice, first to Susanah Hamilton, daughter of Hamilton of Aitkenhead,Jhad by this lady a daughter, Susanah, who married John Leckie, merchant

* Amongst the Provosts of Glasgow , who preceded Anderson of Dowhill, occur the fol-lowing names, viz.:— 1268, Richard de Dunidoris; 1472, John Stewart of Minto; 1528, SirRobert Stewart of Minto; 1541, Lord Belhaven; 1560, Lindsay of Dunrod; 1574, LordBoyd; 1583, Earl of Montrose; 1584, Lord ICiisyth, &c. &c. &c.— Ed.

t See Wodrow ’s “ History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland;” and “Memo-rabilia of the City of Glasgow ;” selected from the Minute Book of the Bur°li, by JohnSmith, Esq., LL.D.; Glasgow , 1835. °

{ Hamilton of Aitkenhead was a cadet of the family of Hamilton of Torrence, descendedfrom the ducal house of Hamilton; so that Susan Leckie of Newlands, also claimed descentfrom the royal house of Stuart.

The writer does not here notice a peculiarity in the armorial bearings of these Andersons,without due apology for the allusion to so puerile a subject as heraldry. What he alludesto, is a remarkable heraldric transmutation coincident in the bearings of the royal houseof Bruce, and in those of the Andersons.

Kent gives the blazonings of the Andersons of Scotland , as " Azure a lion rampant argent,and in chief three mullets of the same.” In the Lyons’ register their bearings are stated tobe, viz.:—"John Anderson of Dowhill, argent, a saltier engrailed sable, betwixt a crescentin chief, and three mullets in the flank and base, gules, all within a bordure azure.” NowNesbit states, that Robert Brins, or Bruce, son ot Adilind, of Norman extract, having mar-ried Agnes de Annandia, or Anriandale, heiress of that country, laid aside his paternal arms,