[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.