[478] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.
[479] Berkeley and his friend, the young Laird of Kincaldrum, raised “a very noble subscription” for the poor lad.
[480] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxlviii.
[481] “On my observing to Dr. Johnson that some of the modern libraries of the university were more commodious and pleasant for study (than the library of Trinity College), as being more spacious and airy, he replied, ‘Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.’” Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 67, n. 2.
[482] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 269, 547. The youngster was Jerome Stone, the author of a poem called Albin and the Daughter of Mey, mentioned by Boswell in his Life of Johnson, v. 171.
[483] It was probably a sycamore, for, as was pointed out by a writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1837, p. 343, what the Scotch call sycamores we call planes.
[484] The other tree, according to Sir Walter Scott, was probably the Prior Letham plane, measuring about twenty feet round. It stood in a cold exposed situation apart from every other tree. Croker’s Boswell, p. 286.
[485] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. ccxii.
[486] This piece of information I owe to the kindness of Mr. J. Maitland Anderson, the Librarian of the University.
[487] In G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. lvi, a story is told of some people who were at St. Andrews for only one night, and who, rather than miss the ruins, saw them “by the light of an old horn lantern.”