[83] See notes on p. 47.
[84] A Reply to the Quarterly Review, p. 7.
[85] It may be proper to point out here that the Editor discussed the idea of issuing a work on rare tartans, to be illustrated by examples of the actual fabrics, with his publisher several years ago, and it was not until the illustrations for the present work were considerably advanced that he became aware of the existence of Miss Dick Lauder’s copy of the Vestiarium, which she has so handsomely placed at his disposal, and which contains the statement in the text.
[86] Copy of original letter in possession of Miss Dick Lauder. Copies of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder’s letters to Sir Walter Scott, along with the originals of the latter’s replies, are bound up with the copy of the Vestiarium made by Sir Thomas in 1828-9, referred to on page 45. The volume, now in possession of Miss Dick Lauder, daughter of Sir Thomas, also contains the cleverly executed water-colours by Charles Edward Stuart referred to in the above letter and the quaint illustrations by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder subsequently referred to.
[87] This, it will be remembered, was the copy which belonged to John Ross, the old sword-player.
[88] i.e., the Douay MS.
[89] The words within brackets do not occur in Sir Thomas’s letter to Sir Walter. They appear, however, in the original letter written by the father of the Messrs Hay, and preserved by Sir Thomas in the volume now in Miss Dick Lauder’s possession.
[90] Sir Walter did so, and it is reproduced on page 56.
[91] This, it will be remembered, was the copy got from John Ross with the date 1721.
[92] Quarterly Review, No. CLXI., June 1847, Art. II., p. 57, “The Heirs of the Stuarts.”