[5] Spanish Calendar, i, 210.
[6] History of English Law, vol. i, pp. 222-224 (1st edn., pp. 201-203).
[7] Cf. Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, vol. ii, p. 477. Scottish Text Soc. Edn., ed. Aeneas Mackay. Sheriff Mackay's notes are specially valuable from the legal stand-point, and his edition gives a new importance to Pitscottie's work.
[8] Cf. Hill Burton's Introduction to the Privy Council Register, vol. ii.
[9] Baron Hume, quoted in Renton's Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, vol. xi, p. 402.
[10] History of King James the Sext, p. 88 (Bannatyne Club ed.).
[11] Diurnal of Occurrents in Scotland, p. 76 (Bannatyne Club).
[12] Aikman, Buchanan, i. 437. Buchanan is the source of the whole constitutional myth. The second founder of the legend was George Ridpath, who published, anonymously, in 1703, An Historical Account of the Ancient Rights and Power of the Parliament of Scotland. This brilliant and ingenious political tract is based on Buchanan, who is always the real, and frequently the avowed, authority for Ridpath's view; and by Ridpath, in turn, many more recent writers have been influenced.
[13] Innes, Critical Essay, i. 361-95.
[14] For a typical instance of this cf. Boece, Lives of the Bishops of Aberdeen (New Spalding Club ed.), pp. 112-13.