In Byways of Scottish History

by Louis A. Barbé

—RIOTOUS GLASGOW—

[ [276] Register of the Privy Council, vol. vii, p. 141.

[ [277] The official records bearing on "this commotioun of Glasgow" are to be found in the Register of the Privy Council, pp. 230-1, 233, 235, 240-7, 500, 501-2.

—THE OLD SCOTTISH ARMY—

[ [278] Act Parl., vol. i, Coll. Frag., p. 752.

[ [279] It has been suggested that Christis Kirk of the Grene, being "a jocund skit upon the ludicrous incapacity of the Scottish rustic to handle a bow", may have been intended "to fortify the statutes of law by the aids of ridicule and satire" (Ross, Early Scottish History and Literature).

[ [280] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 8.

[ [281] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 10.

[ [282] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 45.

[ [283] Act Parl., vol. ii, p. 48.