[97] Coloured stripes sewed on a garment.
[98] Fringes or trimmings.
[99] This seems too high a phrase of compliment for the Regent Morton. His Grace was the ordinary phrase, according to Sir James Melville.
[100] Aberdeen Council Register, Spal. Cl. Mis. i. 30.
[101] Abbotsford Miscellany, 45.
[102] Hist. of the House of Douglas, ii. 260.
[103] The wife of the earl—Margaret Fleming, relict of the Master of Montrose and the Master of Erskine—was believed to have the powers of incantation. See under June 19, 1566.
[104] The seat of the Earl of Montrose, on the skirts of the Ochil Hills.
[105] Crawford’s Officers of State. Moysie’s Memoirs.
[106] As much as to say, ‘Sport, and be at your ease.’