[122] The learned Mr. David Laing found a note of this in the Records of the Treasury.—See his appendix to Knox’s Hist. of the Ref., i. p. 515.
[123] ‘Commendat matrem amicis.’—Alesius, Liber Psalm.
[124] ‘Cum jam scissus per medium ignita catena ferrea.’—Ibid.
[125] ‘Erexit tres digitos, aliis duobus combustis.’—Alesius, Liber Psalm.
[126] ‘In igne, ab hora xii. usque ad vi., vespere, sedit ustulatus magisquam combustus.’—Ibid.
[127] ‘Alesii responsio ad Cochlæum.’
[128] Théodore Beza, Icones.
[129] These verses relating to Hamilton occur in a poem, De Coronis Martyrum in Scotia, written by John Jonston, the manuscript of which is preserved in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. [Note by Translator.]
[130] ‘Tunc incandescerunt,’ etc.—Alesius, Regi Scot.
[131] Knox, Hist. of the Ref., i. p. 36.