[ [61] Chambers's Domestic Annals of Scotland; Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, ii. p. 445.
[ [62] Scot's Staggering State.
[ [63] See Wood's Account of the Parish of Cramond, 1794.
[ [64] The Laws of Lauriston bear ermine, a bend between two cocks, gules. The cock in their arms is supposed by Nisbet to refer to the concluding part of the crow of that bird having a similar sound to the name Law.
[ [65] Scott's Tales of a Grandfather.
[ [66] There are two curious sundials at Barnton. One is an obelisk dial, about twelve feet high, dated 1692. The other, of monumental design, was erected by Lord Balmerino.
Health to immortal Jeffrey! once in name England could boast a judge almost the same.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
[ [68] It was either this Sir Archibald's widow or his mother, that was the Lady Primrose who entertained Flora Macdonald so hospitably in London, during her detention there in 1747, and to whose house in Essex Street, Strand, Prince Charles came during the secret visit he paid to London in 1750. Dr. King, in his Political and Literary Anecdotes, gives an account of meeting the Prince at Lady Primrose's.