[2] From Tanner's Captivity. New York, 1830.
[3] The woodcocks' brae, from the frequency with which they breed there.
[4] Herodotus.
'I had three sons, who now hae nane,
I bred them toiling sarely,
And I wad bare them a' again
And lose them a' for Charlie!'
[6] In this he resembled his father, who, on leaving Scotland after the failure of 1715, sent money to Argyll to compensate the country folk whose cottages had been burned in the war; an act without precedent or imitation.
[7] Charles, about 1743, introduced golf into Italy, according to Lord Elcho.
[8] The authority for this is an unpublished anecdote in Bishop Forbes's MS., The Lyon in Mourning.
[9] The authorities are Chambers's Jacobite Memoirs, selected from the MS. Lyon in Mourning; Chambers's History of the Rising of 1745; Macdonald of Glenaladale's manuscript, published in Blackwood's Magazine; Ewald's History of Prince Charles Edward, and the contemporary pamphlets anonymously published by Dr. Burton on information derived from Bishop Forbes, who collected it at first hand. Fastened on the interior of the cover of the Lyon in Mourning is a shred of the flowered calico worn by the Prince in disguise.
[10] Probably the man had tied a piece of black crape over his face as a mask.