[330]. Privy Council Record.
[331]. A term expressive of a tough, lean person.
[332]. Domestic Annals of Scotland, i. 68.
[333]. Ibid. ii. 318.
[334]. Ibid. ii. 401.
[335]. Letters of Lady Margaret Burnett, Edinburgh, 4to, 1828, p. 63.
[336]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 66, 221.
[337]. Edinburgh, December 6, 1725.—‘Died Alexander Nisbet of that Ilk, so well known by being author of several elaborate Treatises of Heraldry, one of which treatises is now at the press, and will be shortly published, the author having finished the manuscript long before his death.’—Edinburgh Evening Courant.
[338]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 85.
[339]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 203.