[77] Eupham M‘Calyean subsequently attained still higher notoriety in the character of a witch. See under Dec. 26, 1590.

[78] The whole series is printed in Abbotsford Miscellany, p. 5.

[79] Crawford’s Memoirs, 215.

[80] The Lady Scotland is understood to address ‘the richt honorable and godly learnit gentleman, the Laird of Dun, minister of God’s word.’

[81] Bruised.

[82] He ‘wes extremelie pynit in the beitis lang of befoir.’—D. O.

[83] Calderwood, iii. 393.

[84] The word its did not then exist, and writers were forced to use either his or her instead.

[85] Humboldt’s Cosmos.

[86] Brewster’s Encyclopædia.