[1] Kennedy’s Annals of Aberdeen, i. 176.
[2] A marble effigy of this Lord Belhaven, in a reclining posture, is to be seen over his tomb in Holyrood Chapel.
[3] The Hon. Sir William Hamilton. He was long after resident at Rome for Queen Henrietta Maria.
[4] Wodrow’s Life of Trochrig, MS., quoted in Paisley Magazine, 1828.
[5] Stevenson’s Hist. of the Church of Scotland, quoting Historical Collections, MS.
[6] Spottiswoode Misc., ii. 379.
[7] Published in thin folio at London in 1637. 23d June 1637, ‘appeared George Deuchar, agent, and in name of Colonel Monro presented one book entitled Monro his Expeditions, in token of his affection for the good town.’—Edinburgh Coun. Register.
[8] John Gordon, of the house of Gight, engaged himself on the other side; and while serving the emperor as governor of Egra in Bohemia, he performed the notable act of the assassination of Wallenstein, for which his imperial master liberally rewarded him.
[9] Bannatyne Misc., iii. 221.
[10] Documents quoted in the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland, iii. 251. Black Book of Taymouth, p. 437.