[8]: Burnfoot is the name of a farmhouse on the Buccleuch estate, not far from Langholm, where the late Sir John Malcolm and his distinguished brothers were born. Their grandfather had, I believe, found refuge there after forfeiting a good estate and an ancient baronetcy in the affair of 1715. A monument to the gallant General's memory has recently been erected near the spot of his birth.
[9]: 3d King Henry VI. Act I. Scene 4.
[10]: See Life of Dryden, Scott's Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. i. p. 293.
[11]: Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Scene 2.
[12]: Several of these letters having been enclosed in franked covers, which have perished, I am unable to affix the exact dates to them.
[13]: The Rev. Alexander Dyce informs me that nine of Carey's pieces were printed in 1771, for J. Murray of Fleet Street, in a quarto of thirty-five pages, entitled Poems from a MS. written in the time of Oliver Cromwell. This rare tract had never fallen into Scott's hands.—(1839.)
[14]: Byron's Life and Works, vol. ii. p. 169.
[15]: Several letters to Ballantyne on the same subject are quoted in the notes to the last edition of Rokeby. See Scott's Poetical Works, 1834, vol. ix. pp. 1-3; and especially the note on p. 300, from which it appears that the closing stanza was added, in deference to Ballantyne and Erskine, though the author retained his own opinion that "it spoiled one effect without producing another."
[16]: [See Familiar Letters, vol. ii. p. 16.]
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