[465] The Court of Session had been established by James V. in May, 1532. The Seinzie was the older ecclesiastical consistory, or bishops’ court.
[466] company.
[467] hoar.
[468] i.e. in panniers, the ancient means of carriage.
[469] separate.
[470] kine.
[471] Ayrshire cattle were, to judge from this reference, as much esteemed in the sixteenth century as they are in the nineteenth.
[472] died.
[473] pasturing.
[474] Formerly the fine paid the feudal superior for relief from armed service; afterwards a fine of the best chattel, exacted by the landlord on the death of a tenant.