[207] Sir John Gordon, of Findlater, second son of the Earl of Huntly. Confined in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, for a murderous attack upon Lord Ogilvy of Airly in a quarrel concerning property, he had broken ward.—Ed.
[208] He was denounced as a traitor. With a following of eight hundred men, he encountered the Earl of Moray and the Queen's forces outside Aberdeen, and was defeated and slain at the battle of Corrichie.—Ed.
[209] Made scruple.
[210] Bordering of gowns with tassels.
[211] Meddled.
[212] Letter.
[213] Pocket-handkerchiefs.
[214] Ardour; violence.
[215] The crime of beating or assaulting a person within his own house.
[216] The papistical ceremony, down to its minutest details (?).