[17] In MS. G, "over the stipell of Kinghorne."
[18] The persons here referred to, with other gentlemen of Fife, are afterwards noticed by Knox, as having been apprehended by the Earl of Arran and Lord James Stewart for the assistance they had rendered to the French. Seafield and Balmuto are in the parish of Kinghorn; Wemyss in the parish of that name; and Balweary in that of Abbotshall.
[19] Omitted in the MS.—The House of Grange is about a mile to the north-east of Kinghorn, and in that parish.
[20] In MS. 1566, "of new."
[21] In MS. G, "affirme."
[22] Several joint letters written by the Earl of Arran and Lord James Stewart, between the end of November 1559, and February following, communicating intelligence of their proceedings in Fife, are preserved among Sir Ralph Sadler's State Papers, (vol. i. pp. 620, et seqq.)
[23] In MS. 1566, "inevin."
[24] Bishop Lesley estimates their number at about 2000.—(Hist. p. 281.)
[25] Or, Hallyards, in the parish of Auchtertool. It afterwards came into the possession of the Family of Skene.
[26] In Vautr. edit., &c., "Battu," and "Le Battu." Elsewhere he is called Labast, Labatt; by Pitscottie "Labattie."