[69] Dalyell’s Illustrations of Scottish History, p. 521.
[70] Harrison’s translation, apud Holinshed.
[71] Extracta e Chronicis Scocie. Edin. 1842.
[72] Sir William Sinclair, who records these curious particulars, was Lord Justice-general of Scotland, and altogether an estimable person. According to Father Hay: ‘He gathered a great many manuscripts, which had been taken by the rabble out of our monasteries in the time of the Reformation.’—Genealogy of the Sinclairs of Roslin, edited by James Maidment, Esq. 1835. See something further about him under June 1623.
[73] The distance from Bathgate to Edinburgh is eighteen miles.
[74] Bannatyne’s Journal, 46.
[75] Calderwood, iii. 20, 167, and note.
[76] The couplet almost verbatim occurs in the prophecies of Bertlingtoun, in R. Waldegrave’s brochure, already quoted (under Jan. 1, 1561-2):
‘However it happen for to fall,
The Lyon shall be lord of all.’