[365] ‘Who thereafter wrote himself Sir John Hay of Landes, knight, one altogether corrupt, full of wickedness and villainy, and a sworn enemy to the peace of his country.’—Sir James Balfour’s Annals.
[366] Translated from Johnston’s Historia Rerum Britannicarum, apud Secret Hist. of Court of Ja. I., ii. 30.
[367] Chronicle of Perth.
[368] Johnston’s Hist. Rer. Brit., p. 619.
[369] See Muses’ Welcome.
[370] Johnston’s Hist. Rer. Brit., p. 519. Calderwood.
[371] We can here see the original of Scott’s exquisite picture of Caleb Balderstone endeavouring to convince a messenger that cold water was better for his stomach in the morning than ale or brandy.
[372] The organ was no new instrument at Holyrood. There is an entry in the lord-treasurer’s book, under February 8, 1557-8, of £36 ‘to David Melville, indweller in Leith, for ane pair of organs to the Chapel in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.’
[373] See the satire and answer in Abbotsford Miscellany, i. 297.
[374] Ferly is the Scotch for wonder.