[53] A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, by M. Martin, Gent. The first edition of this work appeared in 1703, and a second, “very much corrected,” in 1716. It is from this second edition, pp. 206-210, that the extract is taken.
[54] A Collection of Original Papers about the Scots Plot. London, 1704, pp. 3, 4.
[55] Court Books of the Regality of Grant, 1703-1710. MSS. in H.M. General Register House.
[56] By the courtesy of the families in possession of the portraits referred to in the text, the author, for the purposes of the present work, has had repeated opportunities of making careful examinations of those referred to.
[57] The Present State of Scotland, Second Edition, 1711.
[58] A Journey through Scotland, by the author of The Journey through England (John Macky). London, 1723, p. 194.
[59] System of Heraldry, Edition 1804, Vol. I., p. 415. The original edition of this work was published in 1722, but was most probably written fifteen or twenty years before that date.
[60] MS., Lyon Office. See facsimile of a portion of the page containing the Cluny reference in the Introduction to the Nisbet Plates, p. xlii.
[61] The original is at Fingask. It has been engraved as the frontispiece to The Threiplands of Fingask.
[62] Captain Burt’s Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, 1818, Vol. I., pp. 84-5; Vol. II., pp. 7, 84-86, 87-91. Jamieson’s Edition.