[375] Shewed.
[376] Abridged from the Muses’ Welcome.
[377] The above is a traditional story related in Forsyth’s Beauties of Scotland.
[378] Printed in the Scots Magazine, January 1806, from a MS. volume of excerpts of the Edinburgh city records in the Advocates’ Library.
[379] This Colonel Gray, who is stated to have been a rank papist, embarked at Leith, about the end of May 1620, with a party of fifteen hundred men for the service of the king of Bohemia.—Cal.
[380] Act of Secret Council, quoted in Blackwood’s Magazine, i. 498.
[381] See the case of Margaret Barclay at greater length in Scott’s Demonology, p. 307.
[382] Fleming’s MS., Adv. Lib., quoted in Pitcairn, iii. 443.
[383] Survey of Moray., p. 208.
[384] Now called Castle-Grant.