[598] Grüner’s Aphrodisiacus, p. 115.
[599] Grüner’s Aphrodisiacus, p. 86.
[600] See Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, edited by my friend Mr. John Stuart, and published by the Spalding Club.
[601] By an evident clerical error this word is mis-spelled “vakis” in the copy of the edict contained in the Town-Council records.
[602] History of Scotland, by John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, p. 76.
[603] The Chronicles of Scotland, by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, vol. i. p. 249.
[604] Two of these entries were published by Mr. Pitcairn, in the Criminal Trials of Scotland, vol. i. p. 117. My friend Mr. Joseph Robertson, Superintendent of Searches in the Literary and Antiquarian Department of the General Register House, most kindly collated for me the other entries, while looking over the Treasurer’s accounts for another purpose.
[605] Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, vol. i. p. 110.
[606] Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, vol. i. p. 232.
[607] See Mr. Laing’s admirable edition of Dunbar’s Poems, vol. i. p. 115.