[1024] The name is left blank in all the MSS.
[1025] In Vautr. edit. "The first departing of."
[1026] In Vautr. edit. "Bannantine;" in MS. G, "Bellenden." Sir John Bellenden has frequently been mentioned: [see pages 358], [400.]
[1027] Mr. Gawyn Hamilton: in MS. G. is added, "Abbote of Kilwynning:" [See note [778].
[1028] Vautr. edit. makes this, "of their infants losse." It is the French phrase, "Les enfans perdus d'une armée," the forlorn hope of an army.
[1029] Lord Robert Stewart was the natural son of James the Fifth, by Euphemia Elphinstone. He had a grant of the Abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, while yet an infant; Alexander Myln, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, being administrator. He joined the Reformers, and approved of the Confession of Faith in 1560. In 1569, he exchanged his Abbacy with Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, for the temporalities of that Bishoprick. His lands in Orkney and Zetland were erected into an Earldom in his favour, 28th October 1581.
[1030] In MS. G, "The Capitain of the Castell." Vautr. edit. is the same as the text, in omitting these words.
[1031] In MS. G. and Vautr. edit. "victorious souldiours," or "soldiers."
[1032] In the MS. of 1566, "pause."
[1033] Or, "I think you have bought it without money."