Note 441 — REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE: 1702–1714. (continued 3)

Watson was a man of some merit, and deserves to be remembered as the first publisher of a collection of Scottish poetry. His death, with the style of ‘his majesty’s printer,’ on the 24th September 1722, is noticed by the Edinburgh Courant. He appears to have thriven by his patent, as the paragraph stating his widow’s death, a few years later, adverts to the considerable means which had been left to her, and which she then left to a second husband.