6th August 1706: Death of Covenenter and Rev. David Williamson. He was the supposed subject of the song "Dainty Davie." Sharpe says Williamson had three testicles. That explains something. JC Dick says that "Dainty Davie" refers to a different Williamson & that Reverand David got his sobriquet from the song, not the song from him; he was not (as Burns wrote) the subject.

[Per The Songs of Robert Burns and Notes on Scottish Songs by Robert Burns by James C Dick; 1903]

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