To Robert Arbuthnot from Peterhead Mrs Arbuthnot gratitude for Mrs Montagu's beatutiful letter. Duchess of Gordon not a friend of the nonjurors, though their priests and patrons may have been trying to insinuate this. Election of Mr Stephen as pastor to the chapel of Cruden. Beattie's concern at increase of nonjurors on Lord Erroll's estate. Beattie's principles would not allow him to hurt them, but he loves peace, the King and his country, and they are enemies of all three. The nonjurors whom Arbuthnot formerly knew in this corner were very different from present race. 27 October 1784