[{20}] Lord Reay, according to the latest book on Scottish peerages, represents these MacHeths or Mackays.
[{27}] ‘Iliad,’ xviii. 496-500.
[{36}] As Waleys was then an English as much as a Scottish name, I see no reason for identifying the William le Waleys, outlawed for bilking a poor woman who kept a beer house (Perth, June-August, 1296), with the great historical hero of Scotland.
[{38}] See Dr Neilson on “Blind Harry’s Wallace,” in ‘Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association,’ p. 85 ff. (Oxford, 1910.)
[{52}] The precise date is disputed.
[{57}] By a blunder which Sir James Ramsay corrected, history has accused James of arresting his “whole House of Lords”!
[{61}] The ballad fragments on the Knight of Liddesdale’s slaying, and on “the black dinner,” are preserved in Hume of Godscroft’s ‘History of he House of Douglas,’ written early in the seventeenth century.
[{67}] The works of Messrs Herkless and Hannay on the Bishops of St Andrews may be consulted.
[{71}] See p. 38, note 1.
[{89}] Knox gives another account. Our evidence is from a household book of expenses, Liber Emptorum, in MS.