[149] grated, sought with importunity.

[150] curre favell, curried favour.

[151] rowme, position.

[152] powder it, create bustle or pother.

[153] trade, course.

[154] alludinge, deceiving.

[155] vnlade, give free scope to.

[156] brute, report.

[157] to bear the freey in court—this expression, which is evidently intended to convey the idea of influence or exalted position, may be connected with the French faire les frais.

[158] Randolph to Cecil, 31 Oct., 1565.

[159] Randolph to Cecil, 4 July, 1565.

[160] Ibid., 19 July, 1565.

[161] Cecil's Journal.

[162] Randolph to Cecil, 12 Oct., 1565.

[163] Diurnal of Occurrents.

[164] Randolph to Cecil, 2 July, 1565.

[165] Diurnal of Occurrents.

[166] Knox's History of the Reformation.

[167] Queen Mary to Archbishop Beton, 1 Oct., 1565.

[168] History of the Reformation, p. 383.

[169] pirrye, peril.

[170] incest, given rise to.

[171] trades, course of action.

[172] Gwyssian, belonging to the Guise family.

[173] madlie, maidenly.

[174] proport, proportion.

[175] affatethe, proclaims.

[176] Probably Sandyford, close to the river Cart, between Paisley and Renfrew. A tradition, still current in the neighbourhood, asserts that Mary once slept at Crookston Castle then belonging to the Lennox family. It may have been on this occasion, documentary evidence of any other opportunity for a visit to the Castle not being extant.

[177] to wage, to raise.

[178] trayns, bands.

[179] Capt. Cokbourn to Cecil.

[180] dome, judgment, opinion.

[181] P. 135.

 —THE FIRST "STUART" TRAGEDY—

[182] Les Tragédies de Montchrestien, Paris, 1891, p. xxij.

[183] Op. cit., pp. 72-3.

[184] Op. cit., p. 80.

[185] Op. cit., p. 87.

[186] Op. cit., pp. 88, 89.

[187] Op. cit., p. 92.

[188] Op. cit., p. 93.

[189] Op. cit., pp. 101, 102.

[190] Op. cit., pp. 109, 110.

 —LORETTO—

[191] History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 95.

[192] Item, for xxxvj elnis and ane quarter blechit bertane canwes to be thre albis, thre ametis, and thre altar towellis to oure Lady Chapell of Laureit, price of the elne iijs. iiijd.; summa . . . . . . . . . vjli. xd.

Item, to be thre croces to the chesabillis and to paill the fruntale, v-1/2 elnis quhite satyne, price of the elne xxxijs.; summa . . . . . . . . . viijli. xvjs.

Item, to be armes apoun the thre chesabillis and fruntell, ane quarter yallow satyne, price . . . . . . . . . viijs.

Item, to be frenzeis to the fruntell, ij unces silk, price thairof . . . . . . . . . xs.

Item, for bukrem, rubanis, making and uthir furnessing of the thre vestimentis, fruntell, stoill and parolis . . . . . . . . . iiijli. vs.

Item, to the broidstar for brodering of the Kingis armes apoun the saidis thre vestimentis and fruntell . . . . . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.

Item, for weving of the frenzeis to the fruntell, sewing of the albis, and croces to the towellis . . . . . . . . . xxvjs. viijd.
—Vol. vi, pp. 200-1.

[193] Accounts, vol. vi, p. lxij.

[194] Accounts, p. 299.

[195] Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, ll. 2661, et seq.

[196] Ibid., l. 2665.

[197] Ibid., ll. 2690-2.

[198] "In these tymes there was besyde Mussilburgh, St. Allarit's chapell, and in these tymes of ignorance and superstition, it was believed that if women that were in hard labour did sent ane offering to the Preist and Freirs there, they wold get easy delyverance."—History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 101.

[199] Calderwood, History of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. i, pp. 101-2. Another and less prejudiced account of this John Scott is given by Peder Swave, who visited Scotland in 1535, as Ambassador from Christian II of Denmark to James V: "On the 11th of May I met with a hermit, named John Scott, a person of noble rank, who had quitted a beautiful wife, and children, and all his household, and determined to live by himself in solitude. He ate nothing but bread, and drank nothing save water or milk. He is believed to have endured a fast of forty days and nights in Scotland, England, and Italy. He also says that, when impelled by a higher power, he could not perish by fasting, as by the kindness of the Holy Virgin he has already been able to prove; if he should wish to do this by way of wager or bargain, that he would fail. He declares that he has no sensation of hunger when he fasts, that he loses neither his strength nor his flesh, feels neither heat nor cold, goes about with head and feet naked equally in summer and winter, and that his manner of life does not induce the approaches of age. Asked by me why he left such a beautiful wife, he replied that he wished to be a soldier of Heaven, and that whether his wife determined to serve God or the world was a matter of indifference to him. By chance there was amongst us a canon regular who said that he had been asked by the hermit's wife to reconcile them, but had taken the task upon him to no purpose."—Hume Brown, Early Travellers in Scotland, p. 56.

[200] Row, History of the Kirk of Scotland, Woodrow Society's edition.

[201] History of the Regality of Musselburgh, p. 106.

 —THE ISLE OF MAY—

[202] Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iii, p. 84.

[203] Sibbald, History of Fife, p. 101.

[204] Hume Brown, Early Travellers in Scotland, pp. 68-69.

[205] Hume Brown, Scotland before 1700, p. 78.

[206] Breviar. Aberdonen., Pars Hyemalis, fol. lxii.

[207] Book vi, c. 8.

[208] Vita S. Kentigerni, pp. lxxxiii-iv.

[209] Carte Prioratus Insule de May, Charters 12-18.

[210] Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xiv.

[211] Carte Prioratus, Charter 24.

[212] Carte Prioratus, Charter 25.

[213] Charters 26, 27, 33.

[214] Carte Prioratus, Charters 29, 30.

[215] Charter 35.

[216] Carte Prioratus, Charter 38.

[217] Charter 39.

[218] Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xx and Charter 40.

[219] Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. xxi and Charter 41.

[220] Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. ix.

[221] "Proceedings Relative to the Claim of the Abbot and Convent of Reading on the Priory of the Isle of May", op. cit., p. lxxxv, et seq.

[222] Op. cit., p. xxv.

[223] Op. cit., p. lxxxiij.

[224] Op. cit., p. xxviij.

[225] Op. cit., p. xxvi.

[226] Op. cit., pp. xcvij, et seq.

[227] Pinkerton, History of Scotland, vol. i, p. 208.

[228] Records of the Priory of the Isle of May, p. lxxvi, et seq.

[229] Lockhart, Life of Sir Walter Scott, chap. xxviii.

 —EDINBURGH AND HER PATRON SAINT—

[230] Pars Estiva, Folio xcvi.

[231] History of Edinburgh, pp. 267-8.

[232] History of Edinburgh, pp. 267-8.

[233] History of the Reformation, pp. 95-6.

 —THE ROCK OF DUMBARTON—

[234] Sir W. Fraser, The Lennox, vol. i, p. 43.

[235] Ware, Irish Antiquities, p. 108.

[236] Sir W. Fraser, op. cit., p. 76.

[237] Sir W. Fraser, op. cit., pp. 78 and 236.

[238] Ibid., p. 77.

[239] Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil, vol. ii, p. 397.

[240] Ibid., p. 398.

[241] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. xviii, No. 45.

[242] Bannatyne's Memoriales, p. 196.

[243] History of the Troubles in Scotland and England, vol. i, pp. 157, 158.

 —JAMES VI AS STATESMAN AND POET—

[244] Essay on John Hampden.

[245] Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vii, p. xxvii.

[246] Tytler, History of Scotland, p. 238.

[247] Tytler, History of Scotland, p. 238.

[248] Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vi, pp. 581-2.

[249] Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vi, p. 594.

[250] Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. vii, p. xxv.

[251] Westcott, New Poems by James I of England.

[252] Westcott, New Poems by James I of England.

[253] Ibid.

[254] Ibid.

[255] Op. cit., p. lxxx.

[256] Op. cit., p. lxxxi.

[257] Edited by R. P. Gillies, Edin., 1814; The Authour to the Reader.

[258] Westcott, op. cit., p. xlv.

[259] Calderwood, Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. iii, Appendix, p. 784.

[260] Op. cit., p. lxix.

[261] Ibid., p. 15-16.

[262] Op. cit., p. 39.

[263] "In the Muses' Welcome to King James, printed at Edinburgh in 1618, folio, the royal visitor greeted his Scottish subjects with a string of punning rhymes on the names of certain learned professors, which some of them were sagacious enough to turn into Latin. As a sample of the literary taste which prevailed at this academic visitation, these quibbling verses on the name of the college disputants are here subjoined:—

As Adam was the first of men, whence all beginning tak So Adam-son was president, and first man in this act. The theses Fair-lie did defend, which though they lies contain, Yet were fair-lies and he the same right fairlie did maintain. The field first entred master Sands, and there he made me see That not all Sands are barren sands, but that some fertile bee. Then master Young most subtilie the theses did impugne, And kythed old in Aristotle, although his name bee Young. To him succeeded master Reid, who though reid be his name Neids neither for his disput blush, nor of his speach think shame. Last entred master King the lists, and dispute like a King How reason reigning as a queene should anger underbring. To their deserved praise have I thus played upon their names; And wills their colledge hence be called the Colledge of King James." —Horace Walpole, Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, Edit. 1806, vol. i, p. 125.

 —THE INVASION OF AILSA CRAIG—

[264] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. xlix, No. 51. Robert Bowes to Lord Burghley.

[265] Calderwood, Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, vol. v, pp. 192, 193.

[266] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. l, No. 30. Bowes to Burghley.

[267] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. i, No. 62.

[268] State Papers, Scotland: Elizabeth, vol. lx, Nos. 34, 80.

[269] Ibid., vol. lxi, Nos. 12, i; 17; Register of the Privy Council, vol. v, pp. 393, 394.

[270] Vol. v, p. 402.

[271] Register of the Privy Council, vol. v, p. 394.

 —THE STORY OF A BALLAD—"KINMONT WILLIE"—

[272] Spottswood, p. 415.

[273] Register of the Privy Council, vol. v, p. 761-2.

[274] Register of the Privy Council, pp. 323, 324.

 —A RAID ON THE WEE CUMBRAE—

[275] Register of the Privy Council, vol. vi, pp. 279-281.

 —RIOTOUS GLASGOW—

[276] Register of the Privy Council, vol. vii, p. 141.

[277] The official records bearing on "this commotioun of Glasgow" are to be found in the Register of the Privy Council, pp. 230-1, 233, 235, 240-7, 500, 501-2.

 —THE OLD SCOTTISH ARMY—

[278] Act Parl., vol. i, Coll. Frag., p. 752.

[279] It has been suggested that Christis Kirk of the Grene, being "a jocund skit upon the ludicrous incapacity of the Scottish rustic to handle a bow", may have been intended "to fortify the statutes of law by the aids of ridicule and satire" (Ross, Early Scottish History and Literature).

[280] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 8.

[281] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 10.

[282] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 45.

[283] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 48.

[284] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 100.

[285] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 346.

[286] This was in accordance with the very first of the instructions embodied in the Bruce's "Testamnt", those fourteen lines of which Mr. Oman says that they "contain all the principles on which the Scots, when well advised, acted for the next two hundred and fifty years".

"On fut suld be all Scottis weire, By hyll and mosse themselff to reare. Lat woods for wallis be bow and speire, That innymeis do them na deire. In strait placis gar keip all store, And byrnen ye planeland thaim before. Thane sall thai pass away in haist When that thai find na thing but waist. With wyles and waykings of the nyght And mekill noyis maid on hytht, Thaim sall ye turnen with gret affrai, As thai ware chassit with swerd away. This is the consall and intent Of gud King Robert's testiment."

[287] Reg. Priv. Coun., vol. i, p. 62.

[288] "Victual" is the old Scots term for grain of any kind.

[289] Reg. Priv. Coun., sub. ann. cit.

[290] Reg. Priv. Coun., sub. ann. cit.

 —THE "LONG-TAIL" MYTH—

[291] Sir James Melville's Memoirs, pp. 171-2.

[292] Communicated by Professor Wattenbach, of Berlin, to the Anzeiger für Kunde der Deutschen Vorzeit, 1874.