[52] From Chambers’s Collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads. Authorship attributed to two young lady visitors to Edinburgh.
[53] See Chapter IV., p. 63.
[54] Grant’s Old and New Edinburgh.
[55] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 13.
[56] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 16.
[57] Vide Provost Creech, quoted in Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh.
[58] Murray of Broughton, Prince Charlie’s secretary, who afterwards gave evidence against the Cause.
[59] Presently Jeffrey, in his slashing review of Marmion in the Edinburgh Review, was to accuse Scott of want of patriotism. He dined with Scott that night at Castle Street, and found Scott as hospitable and kind as ever; but from that moment Scott broke off his connection with the Review.
[60] Lockhart’s Life of Scott. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1884.
[61] Dalkeith Palace, the residence of the Dukes of Buccleuch, is held by them, as Craigmillar used to be held, on the understanding that the Sovereign may command it as a Royal residence.