[166] A public weighing-machine at the head of the West Bow.
[167] Johnston’s Hist. Scot. MS.
[168] From the reprint of a rare contemporary tract, in Papers relative to the Marriage of James VI. (Bannatyne Club), 1828.
[169] Regals, or rigols, an ancient musical instrument, composed of a series of reeded tubes resting on a bellows, which the player worked with his left hand. See Dalyell’s Musical Memoirs of Scotland, 1849, p. 117.
One is at a loss to understand how the poet thought of expressing his admiration of the strings of the organ and regals.
[170] Burel’s Description of the Queen’s Entry, &c., 1590, in Watson’s Collection of Scottish Poetry, 1712.
[171] Johnston’s Hist. Scot. MS.
[172] Edin. Council Record.
[173] Maitland Club Misc., i. 280.
[174] The entire letter is printed in Blackwood’s Magazine, ii. 628, and in the Caldwell Papers.