[49] Burgh Record of Canongate, Maitland Club Mis., ii. 303.

[50] Babees, halfpence, from bas billon, a low piece of money.

[51] Hume’s Hist. House of Douglas.

[52] Privy Seal Register.

[53] Discoverie and Historie of the Gold Mynes in Scotland. Written in 1619. Bannatyne Club, 1825.

[54] Holinshed’s Chronicle.

[55] The original, preserved in the General Register House, is printed at length in Pitcairn, iii. 394.

[56] Privy Seal Register.

[57] Council Register, quoted in Maitland’s History of Edinburgh, p. 32.

[58] Ane Breve Descriptioun of the Pest, &c. 1568.