[508] This anecdote I had from Lord Monboddo’s great grandson, Captain Burnett, of Monboddo House, to whose courtesy I am much indebted.

[509] “In Scotland judges on the circuit are obliged to stay five nights at every town where they open their commission.” Howard’s State of Prisons, ed. 1777, p. 103.

[510] Scots Magazine, Oct. 1773, 556.

[511] F. Douglas’s General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, p. 91.

[512] F. Douglas’s General Description, &c., p. 89.

[513] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cclxxiv.

[514] Vol. ii. p. 99.

[515] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1766, p. 210.

[516] Cox’s Recollections of Oxford (ed. 1868), p. 156.

[517] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 461.