ABERDEEN, _March 14, 1637_.
CXLIX.--_To the much honoured JOHN OSBURN, Provost of Ayr._
[OF JOHN OSBURN, merchant in Ayr, and at this time chief magistrate of that burgh, little is now known. He died about the close of the year 1653, or beginning of the following year, as appears from his son David being retoured his heir on 17th January 1654. He appears on the list of the gentlemen in Ayrshire whom Middleton fined in 1662.]