[7]: Sir Walter Blunt—1st King Henry IV., Act V. Scene 3.
[8]: See Molière's George Dandin.
[9]: Imitations of Horace. B. ii. Ep. 1. v. 386.
[10]: These charming essays are now reprinted in his Miscellaneous Prose Works (Edition 1834) vol. vii.
[11]: Jackie Peartree had, it seems, been Sir William Rae's nickname at the High School. He probably owed it to some exploit in an orchard.
[12]: The Right Honorable Robert Dundas of Arniston, Chief Baron of the Scotch Exchequer, died 17th June, 1819. See post, p. [123].
[13]: Mr. William Clerk.
[14]: The wife of one of the Edinburgh Judges is alluded to.
[15]: "Between February 15, 1819, and March 14, 1837, Rob Roy was played in the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, 285 times."—Letter from Mr. W. Murray. [Nicol Jarvie remained Mr. Mackay's masterpiece, but his Dominie Sampson and Meg Dods in the dramas founded on Guy Mannering and St. Ronan's Well were very successful. He died in Glasgow in 1857.]
[16]: King's-Hood—"The second of the four stomachs of ruminating animals." Jamieson.—Spleuchan—The Gaelic name of the Highlander's tobacco-pouch.