[30] £2915.
[31] Father Blackhall’s Narrative (Spalding Club), p. 125.
[32] December 16, 1630, the Privy Council granted commission to a portion of their number, amongst whom was a bishop (Dumblane), to assemble in the Laigh Council-house for the examination of Margaret Wood, ‘and as they shall find occasion to cause put her to some slight and spare torture for the better trial and discovery of the truth of the matter.’
[33] See proceedings in Appendix to Spalding’s Troubles, vol. i. (Spalding Club edition).
[34] New Stat. Acc. of Scotland—Banffshire, p. 131.
[35] The notes to this article are from another list in the Spottiswoode Miscellany, ii. 383.
[36] James Spence of Wormiston. He became Lord of Noreholm and Chancellor of Sweden.
[37] Subsequently Earl of Brentford in the English peerage.
[38] Created Lord Eythan by Charles I. in 1642.
[39] He died of his wounds, a captive, at Gortz.