[93] Ibid., pp. 63, 64.
[94] Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.
[95] A Reply to the Quarterly Review upon the Vestiarium Scoticum. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848, pp. 4-7.
[96] See Reply, pp. 8-16.
[97] An evident misprint for “Watson” in the Quarterly Review article.
[98] Professor Skene’s reference here is to a statement in the preface to the Vestiarium, to the effect that the Bishop of Ross noted his acquisition of Sir Richard Urquhart’s work in his Diary (which he quotes in full) remaining among a portion of the Douay papers, in the possession of the “late Mr Robert Watson, well known in the history of the Stuart papers.” For an account of Watson’s remarkable career see an article by Andrew Lang in the Illustrated London News of 12th March 1892.
[99] Quarterly Review article, p. 67.
[100] Ante, p. 49.
[101] Ante, p. 51.
[102] Facsimile of John Leslie’s signature as Bishop of Ross in the Lord Treasurer’s Accounts, 1564-6, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh. The date of the audit, to which the bishop’s signature is affixed, is 27th June 1566.