[538] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, ed. 1869, p. 309.
[539] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, Appendix D. At the time of the rebellion of 1745 the Errol title was held by a woman.
[540] Walpole’s Letters, iii. 438.
[541] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, Appendix D.
[542] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 38.
[543] Bouilloire. According to Dr. Murray the word is connected with “the Swedish buller, a noise, roar. But,” he adds, “the influence of boil is manifest.” I remember when I visited the place in my youth I heard it also called Lord Errol’s Punch-bowl. The tale was told that a former earl had made a seizure in it of a smuggling ship laden with spirits, and had had the kegs emptied into the water.
[544] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 188.
[545] Dun Buy means the Yellow Rock. It gets its name, it is said, from the colour given to it by the dung of the sea-birds.
[546] James Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1745, p. 311.
[547] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.