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Having, on 7 July 1767, given the casting vote against the claimant, Archibald
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house. In his latter years his eyesight failed, and after a short illness he died at his house in Adam's Square on 13 December 1787, and was buried with great pomp at
Borthwick on 18 December His tomb lis within Borthwick Church in the Arniston Aisle and was sculpted by
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