[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.’