[766] Calderwood, V. 655.
[767] Two men sent to buy nolt in Galloway for the needs of the borough of Dumfries were stopped, with 38 head of cattle, by the provost and others of Wigton, at the Water of Crie, the cattle being impounded at Wigton for eight days so that they became lean. A hundred merks compensation was demanded. Scots Privy Council, V.
[768] Scots P. C., VI. 164.
[769] Aberdeen Kirk Session Records, Spalding Club, 1846, Calderwood (cited by Chambers, I. 319) says that the year 1600 was one of famine, and that there was also a great death of young children, six or seven being buried in Edinburgh in a day.
[770] Scots Privy Council, VI. under the respective dates.
[771] Burgh Records.
[772] Smith’s Cork, II. 34.
[773] Cal. State Papers. Domestic.
[774] Smith’s Cork, on the authority of MS. annals.
[775] Annals of Loch Cé. Rolls ed., II. 289.