[45] Ibid. p. 51.
[46] Rec. of Just. May 27, 1601.
[47] News from Scotland, declaring the damnable life of Dr. Fian.—Pitcairn, vol. i. p. 213.
[48] We need hardly remind our readers of the torture of Macbriar by the Boots, before the Privy Council, in the ‘Tales of my Landlord.’
[49] Old French, Turquois, a smith’s pincers, from torquere.
[50] Sir James Melville, p. 294.
[51] Pitcairn, vol. i. p. 211.
[52] Crook—the hook from which pots are hung over a Scottish kitchen fire.
[53] Just. Records, 1590-1610.
[54] Most of the cases here cited are found in the Justiciary Records, from about 1605 to 1640.