[335] Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI., p. 56.
[336] Mait. Club Misc., i. 158.
[337] See under June 1590.
[338] Osborne’s Traditional Memoirs—Secret Hist. Court James I. Vol. i., p. 219.
[339] Printed in full in Ritson’s Country Chorister.
[340] A large collection of documents illustrative of this case will be found in Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, iii. 124-199. The story has been made the subject of a play, under the name of the Ayrshire Tragedy, by Sir Walter Scott.
[341] The superior men of a Highland clan were called the duniwassals.
[342] Hive.
[343] Notes to Border Minstrelsy, i. clxxvi.
[344] Melrose State Papers.