[13]. On the 12th February 1690, the Privy Council had under their notice the case of a man named Samuel Smith, who had been imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for three years on a charge of theft, without trial, and ordained him to be set at large, there being ‘no probation’ against him.
[14]. Privy Council Record.
[15]. Privy Council Record, under February 22, 1698.
[16]. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil [by Drummond of Balhadics], p. 243.
[17]. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil, p. 254.
[18]. C. K. Sharpe in note to Law’s Memorials.
[19]. Privy Council Record.
[20]. Justiciary Record.
[21]. Mrs Gibb seems to have been the person who managed the transmission or carrying between Edinburgh and Haddington.
[22]. Privy Council Record.