[292]. Privy Council Record.
[293]. Privy Council Record.
[294]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii.
[295]. It was an old mode of advertisement in country towns, down to the author’s early years, to send an old woman through the streets with a wooden dish and a stick, to clap or beat upon it so as to gather a crowd, before whom she then gave her recital.
[296]. Analecta, i. 10.
[297]. Sir John had entered at the bar in the preceding year, and it is not improbable that he came into acquaintance with Steuart in a professional capacity.
[298]. Copy of the sentence printed in Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, from one in the possession of the late Alexander Macdonald, Esq.
[299]. That is, the eighteenth century.
[300]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. of Scot., xviii. 578.
[301]. Collection of papers in Oxenford Castle.