[195] news.
[196] weak.
[197] cast wide their doors.
[198] South of.
[199] lament.
[200] A convent founded on the Burgh-muir by the Countess of Caithness for Dominican nuns of the reformed order of St. Catherine of Sienna, from whom the place got its name of Siennes or Sheens.
[201] armed.
[202] a cannon braced up in hoops.
[203] hard blows.
[204] storm.