Note 124 — REIGN OF WILLIAM AND MARY: 1689–1694. (continued 3)

William Livingstone survived his wife nearly forty years. In the Caledonian Mercury for February 6, 1733, is this paragraph: ‘We are assured private letters are in town, giving account, that on the 12th of last month, the Right Hon. the late Viscount Kilsyth died at Rome, in an advanced age, in perfect judgment, and a Christian and exemplary resignation.’