[161] Waverley Annotations, i. 70.
[162] The buildings in this alley are now demolished.
[163] He is said to have been a nobleman of considerable talent, and a great underhand supporter of the exiled family; see the Lockhart Papers. George Lockhart had married his daughter Euphemia, or Lady Effie, as she was commonly called. In the Edinburgh Annual Register there is preserved a letter from Lord Eglintoune to his son, replete with good sense as well as paternal affection.
[164] The earl was forty-nine and Miss Kennedy twenty.
[165] The anecdote which follows is chiefly taken from The Tell-tale, a rare collection, published in 1762.
[166] Notes by C. K. Sharpe in Stenhouse’s edition of the Scots Musical Museum, ii. 200.
[167] As a specimen of the complimentary intercourse of the poet with Lady Eglintoune, an anecdote is told of her having once sent him a basket of fine fruit; to which he returned this stanza:
‘Now, Priam’s son, ye may be mute,
For I can bauldly brag wi’ thee;
Thou to the fairest gave the fruit—