[61] The pen is run through the words, "with thirteen strings," in the original.
[62] "In the arms of Scotland, as manifested in the royal atchievement, the double fressure which surrounds the lion is borne flory and counter-flory (with fleurs-de-lis), which is in consequence of a treaty that was entered into between Charlemagne, then Emperor and King of France, and Achius, King of Scotland; to denote that the French lilies should guard and defend the Scottish lion."
[63] Walter Scott's Old Mortality, vol. ii. p. 116.