[131b] Descended from an ancient race famed for fighting.
[131c] Assaulted. They were, although out of danger, terrified by the attacks of the sow, and their fear was shared by the kiln, which began to smoke!
[131d] Watling-street, the Roman way from Catterick to Bowes.
[132a] Lost his colour.
[132b] Scott, not understanding this expression, has inserted ‘Jesus’ for the initials ‘I. H. S.,’ and so has given a profane interpretation to the passage. By a figure of speech the friar is called an I. H. S., from these letters being conspicuously wrought on his robes, just as we might call a livery-servant by his master’s motto, because it was stamped on his buttons.
[133] The meaning here is obscure. The verse is not in Whitaker.
[134] Warlock or wizard.
[135a] It is probable that by guest is meant an allusion to the spectre dog of Yorkshire (the Barguest), to which the sow is compared.
[135b] Hired.
[137] The monastery of Gray Friars at Richmond.—See Leland, Itin., vol. iii, p. 109.