[528] A Scotch merk was about thirteen pence of English money.
[529] Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 7.
[530] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 160.
[531] Northcote’s Life of Reynolds (ed. 1819), i. 300.
[532] Johnson’s Works, viii. 479.
[533] In 1786 the post despatched from Aberdeen on Monday reached London on Saturday. Travellers could reach Edinburgh in a day and a half by the Aberdeen and Edinburgh Fly, which set out from the New Inn at four o’clock in the morning, and arrived at Edinburgh next day to dinner; fare, £2 2s. Scottish Notes and Queries, i. 31.
[534] Piozzi Letters, i. 387.
[535] Ray’s History of the Rebellion, p. 310.
[536] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 186.
[537] Bound up with them were some interesting and unpublished autograph letters and documents connected with many generations of the earls of Errol. It is greatly to be desired that the present earl, to whose courtesy I am much indebted, would have them edited.