[37] A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland Frith, etc. Edinb. 1701, p. 72.
[38] View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands, vol. ii. p. 103. Edinb. 1809.
[39] Vol. ii. pp. 7, 88.
[40] See Transactions of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. i. p. 295.
[41] Boece gives with great gravity the following extravagant account of the holy origin of the oily well of Liberton:—“Nocht two milis fra Edinburgh (says he) is ane fontane dedicat to Sanct Katrine, quhair sternis of oulie springis ithandlie (where drops of oil rise constantly) with sic abondance, that howbeit the samin be gaderit away, it springis incontinent with gret aboundance. This fontane rais throw ane drop of Sanct Katrinis oulie, quhilk was brocht out of Mount Sinai, fra hir sepulture, to Sanct Margaret, the blessit Queene of Scotland; and als sone (as soon) as Sanct Margaret saw the oil spring ithandlie, be divine miracle, in the said place, she gart big ane chappell (made be built a chapel) there in the honour of Sanct Katherine.”—Bellenden’s Translation of Boece’s Hystory and Chroniklis of Scotland, p. xxxviii.
[42] Memorial of the Rare and Wonderful Things in Scotland, at the end of his Abridgement of the Scotch Chronicles. London, 1612.
[43] Dyet of the Diseased, book iii. cap. 19.
[44] Trans. of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. i. p. 324.
[45] The Oily Well; or a Topographico-Spagyrical Description of the Oily Well at St. Catherine’s Chappel, in the Paroch of Liberton. Edinburgh, 1664.
[46] Sir Thomas Murray’s edition of The Acts of Parliament made by James the First, etc. (Edinburgh 1681), p. 18; or T. Thomson’s edition of The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland (1814), vol. ii. p. 16.