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Title: Memoirs of the life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, baronet, baron of the Exchequer, extracted by himself from his own journals, 1676-1755
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Clerk, John, Sir, 1676-1755 Gray, John Miller, 1850-1894, ed
Subjects: Finance
Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish history Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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I, to comply with their wishes, led my thoughts in an overly
way upon two Ladies, one was a young Lady of great Quality,
and consequently most improper for my circumstances, as my
Father had settled a good part of his Estate on the son I had
by my late wife. The other was a lightheaded Beuty, and
consequently as improper for me as the other.¹
My Father hapned to be averse to both these projects,
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1 There are blanks in the MS. and the notes here. The second lady here
referred to may possibly have been Susanna, daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy,
of whom Clerk is said to have been a suitor. He presented her with a flute,
in which was concealed a copy of verses beginning—
'Harmonious pipe, I languish for thy bliss,
When pressed to Silvia's lips with gentle kiss,'
which are given by Chambers in his Traditions of Edinburgh. She became
the third wife of Alexander, ninth Earl of Eglintoun. Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd
was dedicated to her in 1726 by Hamilton of Bangour, and Boyse also addressed
her in verse. She died in 1780, aged ninety-one.
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VIII
JANET INGLIS
Second Wife of Baron Sir John Clerk

1709 HIS SECOND MARRIAGE 75

wherefor I prevailed very easily with my self to drop them,
and indeed I found afterwards that both the Ladies who
touched my fancy at that time had made me very unhappy,
for one of them proved a very bad Woman, and the other very
little better, but their names I here burry in silence.
My third attempt was in reality my first, for by some secret
charm or order of divine providence I settled my thoughts on
Mrs. Jennet Inglis of Cramond.¹ She had been educated under
a most verteous mother, daughter of Sir Patrick Houston, and
was her self what I always hope to find her, a most religious
verteous woman, and one who in all respects might suit my
humure and circumstances to rub through the world in a sober
and privat state of Life.
After I had acquainted my Father of my design, which
he approved of, and after haveing gone through a few for-
malities of Courtship, we were married the 15 of Feb. 1709.
My Wife was then about 22 years of age, and I about 32, and
we were so happy as to have the consent and approbation of
our Friends on both sides.

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