[90] Edinburgh Magazine, March 1819.

[91] Balfour’s Annals of Scotland, iii. 128.

[92] Archæologia Scotica, i. 503, note.

[93] Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 209, 280.

[94] The battle of Edgehill, fought on the 24th of October 1642.

[95] According to Burnet, Sir Archibald Johnston of Warriston did the same thing. ‘He would often pray in his family two hours at a time, and had an unexhausted copiousness that way. What thought soever struck his fancy during those effusions, he looked on as an answer to prayer, and was wholly determined by it.’

[96] This whimsical association actually occurs in the dittay of a witch of this period.

[97] Stevenson’s History of the Church of Scotland.

[98] Willis’s Current Notes, April 1857.

[99] See Thorpe’s Northern Mythology; also article on Sandsting in New Stat. Acc. Scotland.