[601]. ‘A ewe which has given over bearing.’—Jamieson.

[602]. That is, a native of Ireland.

[603]. Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes to W. M. Herries of Spottes, dated February 1811.—Murray’s Lit. Hist. of Galloway, Appendix, p. 337.

[604]. See Domestic Annals of Scotland, under September 1583.

[605]. Caledonian Mercury of the day.

[606]. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[607]. Lovat’s Memorial to the King, Burt’s Letters, 2d ed., ii. 264, App.

[608]. Letter of General Guest, Spalding Club Miscellany, iii. 229.

[609]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, September 6, 1725. This paper remarks that the extent of country which belonged to the late Earl of Seaforth, and disarmed on this occasion, was no less than sixty miles in length and forty in breadth.

[610]. Lockhart Papers.