[225] Near Cramond Island.
[226] Fr. Bon aller, an entertainment at the commencement of a journey.
[227] Genealogical Deduction of Kilravock Family, written in 1683-4.
[228] Letter of Thomas Mallison, Aberdeen, June 28, 1597. Spalding Club Misc., ii. lx.
[229] Mait. Club Misc., i. 89.
[230] He held a privy-council on the 4th November, and occasionally during the month till the 29th, at Dumfries.
[231] Calderwood.
[232] ‘... that fearful eclipse of the sun which continued the space of two hours, so fearful that that Saturday is yet called by the people the Black Saturday; a prognostic, as the times give occasion to interpret, of that darkness which was to fall upon the kirk.’—Scot’s Narration.
[233] The house of Bailie Macmoran, who was killed by a boy at the High School in 1595. This house still exists (see p. 263), and the room where the duke was banqueted is now used as the Mechanics’ Library.
[234] Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, folio, 1617.