[87] Tytler, vii. 388.
[88] Under the care of John Smith, youngest, the secretary of the Club. 1832.
[89] So called ‘for that in old Fathers’ days the people would that day shear their heads and clip their beards, and so make them honest against Easter Day.’—Authority quoted in Brand’s Pop. Antiquities, by Ellis.
[90] ‘Robert Gurlay, the duke’s servant,’ is the last in the list of persons forfeited by the parliament of James VI., August 1571.
[91] Calderwood.
[92] Register of the General Kirk of Edinburgh, Maitland Club Mis., i. 101.
[93] Reg. of Gen. Kirk of Edinburgh, Maitland Club Mis., i. 111.
[94] As this conduct was such as might lead to a collision between the parties, it is not easy to see how it illustrates the author’s proposition of Wedderburn’s pacific temper.
[95] From a copy in the editor’s possession of a manuscript long preserved in Broomhouse, Berwickshire.
[96] ‘There was presented to the Queen Regent (1558), by Robert Ormiston, a calf having two heads, whereat she scripped [mocked], and said: “It was but a common thing.”‘—Knox.