[308:1] A gentleman of the same name connected with the Lovat family, was for some time an apothecary in London, where he lived "the life of a genuine London bachelor;" he was a keen Jacobite, and died about 1760. Note communicated by Captain Fraser, Knockie, who also mentions another James Fraser, who was commissioner of the navy during the revolutionary war, and settled in London in 1781; but this appears to have been a person of a later generation than Hume's friend.
[310:1] Gunpowder.
[310:2] In allusion, probably, to Sir John Hynd Cotton.
[310:3] In allusion to Sir George Vandeput.
[310:4] In allusion, probably, to Fraser's own family.
[311:1] Earl Gower, and his son Lord Trentham.
[316:1] Probably "Agis," which appears to have been written before "Douglas."
[319:1] Printed sheet in the possession of James Maidment, Esq. "The Bellman's Petition," has been reprinted in a curious collection of scraps, called "A Scots Haggis," the editor of which does not however appear to have known that Hume was the author of this piece.