[195] Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI. Abbotsford Club Series. 1838. P. 16.
[196] Calderwood. History of James VI. Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials. Gregory’s History of the Western Highlands and Isles.
[197] This interlined in the manuscript in a different hand. Another report is, that Lord Maxwell was slain by Willie Johnston, nephew of the Galliard, mentioned under July 22, 1593.
[198] G. L. Meason’s preface to Discoverie and Historie of the Gold Mynes of Scotland. Bannatyne Club. 1825.
[199] Archæologia Scotica, iv. 404.
[200] Napier’s Life of Napier of Merchiston.
[201] Another writer represents the Master of Montrose as setting upon Sir James Sandilands.
[202] The writer of this curious story speaks of the form of the funeral as rare.
[203] Council Register in Maitland.
[204] Patrick Anderson’s History MS. He adds: ‘I was at the time by chance an eye-witness myself.’