[1] Works of Sibbes, vol. i. pp. 25, 142.
[2] New America. By W. H. Dixon. With Illustrations from Original Photographs. 2 vols. 8vo. 1867. (Hurst and Blackett.) Vol. i., pp. 134-137.
[3] See Appendix A., lii-lv.
[4] From above, and other parallels, it will be seen that Burns only put more tersely and memorably an old sentiment in his—
‘The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The man’s the gowd for a’ that.’
[5] Nicolson and Burns’s Cumberland and Westmoreland, vol. i., p. 26.
[6] I owe hearty thanks to the Rev. Thomas Lees, M.A., Wreay, Carlisle, formerly Curate of Greystoke, for much help in tracing out birth-place, &c., and throughout; also to Archdeacon Cooper, Kendal, for his prompt and full answers to my queries.
[7] See Memoirs of Alderman Barnes, edited for Surtees Society by W. H. D. Longstaffe, Esq., of Gateshead, p. 143. As I write this, these Memoirs are passing through the press; and I am indebted to Mr Longstaffe for early proof-sheets of the notices of Gilpin contained in the Manuscript. No common service is being rendered by Mr L. and the Surtees Society, to Ecclesiastical History, in so lovingly and competently preparing these important memoirs, which shed light on innumerable events and names, from sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. An abstract of the more interesting passages was published in 1828 by Sir Charles Sharpe, 8vo, pp. vii. and 35. I have to thank J. Hodgson Hinde, Esq., of Stelling Hall, Stocksfield, for this scarce pamphlet.
[8] See Longstaffe’s Barnes, as before. The Manuscript now belongs to the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne.