[13] Ibid., p. 359.
[14] Lord High Treasurer’s Accounts, 1537-38, fol. 63, MS., H.M. General Register House.
[15] See letter printed in full in Bannatyne Miscellany, Vol. I., and also in Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis. The Editor is indebted for a correct transcription of the above portion to Mr Augustus W. Franks, C.B., British Museum.
[16] Histoire de la Guerre d’Escosse pendant les Campagnes, 1548 et 1549. Par Jean de Beaugué. Maitland Club. The translation is that of Donald Gregory. See Transactions of the Iona Club, p. 31.
[17] Register of the Privy Council, Vol. I., p. 136.
[18] The Chronicles of Scotland, by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Edition 1814, Vol. I., Introduction, p. xxiii.
[19] The Historie of Scotland, wrytten first in Latin by the most Reverend and Worthy Jhone Leslie, Bishop of Rosse, and translated in Scottish by Father James Dalrymple Religious in the Scottis Cloister of Regensburg the zeere of God 1596. Edited for the Scottish Text Society by the Rev. Father E. G. Cody, O.S.B., 1885, pp. 90-94. This quaint Scots version is given in preference to the ordinary one from the Latin, as it conveys an extremely vivid picture of the ancient dress written by a contemporary.
[20] Ibid., p. 377.
[21] Aikman’s translation of Buchanan’s History of Scotland, Vol. I., pp. 40, 41. Buchanan’s description was incorporated in Certeine Matters concerning the Realme of Scotland, composed together as they were Anno Domini 1597, by John Monipennie, who also included it in the Summarie of the Scots Chronicles, 1612.
[22] The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, Vol. I., pp. 331, 335. Bannatyne Club.