[43] Tours in Scotland, 1677 and 1681, by Thomas Kirk and Ralph Thoresby, edited by P. Hume Brown. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1892, pp. 28, 29.
[44] See the letter quoted in Blackwood’s Magazine, April 1817, p. 69. The present extract has been compared with the original in the Advocates’ Library. In the Transactions of the Iona Club “not one of ten of them hath breaches” is made to read “not one of them hath breaches,” and this very serious error has been duly copied by subsequent writers on the Highland dress.
[45] A Collection of Several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions, by Mr William Cleland, Lieutenant-Colonel to my Lord Angus’s Regiment. Printed in the year 1697, pp. 11-13.
[46] Lyon Register in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh. Matriculation dated about 1672.
[47] Alexander Nisbet’s Heraldic Plates, originally intended for his System of Heraldry. Waterston and Sons, Edinburgh, 1892.
[48] Nisbet MS., Advocates’ Library, pp. 33-35.
[49] Introduction to Nisbet’s Heraldic Plates, p. xlvi.
[50] The Grameid: an Historic Poem descriptive of the Campaign of Viscount Dundee in 1689, by James Philip of Almerieclose. 1691. Translated by the Rev. Alexander D. Murdoch, F.S.A. Scot., for the Scottish History Society, 1888.
[51] Some Account of the Battle of Killiecrankie and what Followed thereupon. The MS. is cited in The Costume of the Clans, p. 104.
[52] An Account of the Isle of Man, ... with a Voyage to I-Columb-Kill, by William Sacheverell, Esq., late Governor of the Isle of Man. 8vo. Manx Society, 1859, p. 99. The first edition was published in 1702.