[102] Scots Magazine, July 1753, p. 362.
[103] June 18, 1754, State Papers.
[104] Scots Magazine, June 1754. The details of Fassifern’s imprisonment and condemnation are taken from the Scots Magazine of 1753-1754.
[105] No. 48 S. P. S. From Churchill to Newcastle, Nov. 19, 1751. The story of the ghostly evidence in Sergeant Davies’s case will be found in the author’s Book of Dreams and Ghosts.
[106] Written before 1810, the Memoirs are published in the Canadian Magazine of 1828. Mr. McLennan has founded on these papers his excellent romance, Spanish John.
[107] Hunts-foot (sic), i.e. leg of a dog, a term of reproach with the Germans.
[108] Lally’s adventures were romantic, and are only touched on by M. Humont in his Lally Tollendal, pp. 32-5.
[109] Mackenzie’s History of the Camerons; see documents on pp. 233-44.
[110] Murray of Broughton in Chambers’s Rebellion of 1745; edition of 1869, p. 515.
[111] Letter-Book of Alastair Ruadh, MS.