[575] salute.
[576] partly.
[577] rocks.
[578] The name is spelt variously, Ballantyne, Ballenden, Bellendyne, &c.
[579] Murray’s Dialects of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 61.
[580] According to Hume’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, p. 258.
[581] In the appendix to Scotstarvet’s History Sir John Bellenden is stated to have been Justice-Clerk from 1547 till 1578.
[582] Dr. Irving quotes the statements of Conn, Bale, and Dempster respectively for these three facts. But both the date and place remain, as he remarks, uncertain; and by some, as by Sibbald in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, Bellenden is stated to have died at Paris.
[583] Hector Boece, born 1465–66, was Principal of King’s College, Aberdeen, then newly founded by Bishop Elphinstone; and he died Rector of Tyrie in Buchan, in 1536. The second edition of his History was not published till 1574. It included the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth book by Boece, and a continuation to the end of the reign of James III. by the celebrated scholar Ferrerius.
[584] On the title page the translator is styled “Archdene of Murray and Chanon of Rosse,” and, as Irving points out, he was not in possession of these titles at the time of purchasing escheat in 1538. The date of 1536 sometimes assigned to this edition is probably therefore a mistake. Only two copies of the edition are now known to exist.