[9] Pitcairn.

[10] Dr. Jamieson conjectures the word to signify “warm hose.” After encircling the leg with an iron framework, it was put into a moveable furnace or chauffer, and during the progress of heating the iron, the intended questions were successively put.—Note in Pitcairn’s ‘Scottish Criminal Trials.’

[11] Pitcairn’s ‘Scottish Criminal Trials.’

[12] Chambers’ ‘Domestic Annals of Scotland.’

[13] ‘Antiquarian Researches of Aberdeen, by Gavin Turriff: Spalding Club Miscellany. Chambers’ ‘Domestic Annals,’ to the end of the Aberdeen trials.

[14] Apparently untranslateable.

[15] Patrick Anderson’s MS. history of Scotland, quoted by Robert Chambers, in his ‘Domestic Annals of Scotland.’

[16] Pitcairn.

[17] Pitcairn and Chambers.

[18] Pitcairn.