[50] See Cunningham’s Lives of British Painters, &c., v. 22, art. George Jameson.
[51] Mixed with Spalding’s quaint narration, are here inserted some special descriptions from the authorised account, published at the time, as abridged in Jackson’s History of the Scottish Stage.
[52] Muse’s Threnodie, ii. 118. Some specimens of the dress of the morris-dancers are still preserved at Perth.
[53] Black Book of Taymouth, p. 437.
[54] Another account states the number drowned at eight.
[55] From a manuscript of Sir James Balfour. Ancient Heraldic and Antiquarian Tracts., Edinburgh. 1837.
[56] Ed. Phil. Journal, Apr. 1839.
[57] View of Diocese of Aberdeen, Spal. Club.
[58] Go-summer and go-har’st are terms applied in Scotland to the mild weather which sometimes occurs between autumn and winter. There is a proverb in Peeblesshire: ‘If the deer lie down dry and rise dry on Rood-e’en (September 18), it’s a sign we’ll have a good go-har’st.’
[59] See Johnson’s Scots Mus. Museum, new edition, notes.