[35] See, for example, the notes on this passage in the editions of Steevens and Malone.
[36] Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. v. p. 268.
[37] Scotorum Historiæ, lib. xi. f. 225, 251.
[38] See his great work on the Sculptured Stones of Scotland, plate cxxv. p. 39.
[39] I do not believe that there is a single example of armorial bearings to be found either in Scotland or Ireland of an earlier date than the close of the twelfth century.—P.
[40] Bellenden's Translation of Boece's Croniklis of Scotland, lib. xii. 2, vol. ii. p. 258.
[41] Scotorum Historiæ (1526), lib. xii. p. 257.
[42] History of Fife and Kinross, p. 35.
[43] A Tour in Scotland, part ii. p. 210. See also Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1797), vol. ii. p. 135.
[44] I feel quite satisfied that this monumental stone is of a much earlier date than the thirteenth century, and that it is most probably a Danish or Dano-Scottish monument.—P.