[410] For my authorities for some of the statements in this note see my Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 116-9.

[411] See ante, [p. 52].

[412] Heart of Mid-Lothian, ed. 1860, i. 247.

[413] Redgauntlet, ed. 1860, i. 253.

[414] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 106, and Heart of Mid-Lothian, ii. 117.

[415] Lockhart’s Scott, vii. 124.

[416] Reminiscences, by Thomas Carlyle, ii. 5.

[417] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 69.

[418] Court and City Register for 1769, p. 142.

[419] From 1808 the judges began to sit in two separate chambers. Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 100, 244.