END OF VOLUME II.
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] In a MS. we have seen, as old as the end of the 15th century, “the Laird of Mangerton” is placed at the head of the Liddesdale chiefs—Harden, Buccleuch, and others coming after him in respectful order.
[B] See Maitland’s curious satire on the Border robberies.—Ed.
[C] Selkirkshire.
[D] It has been attempted to derive this word from “Lord,” (paper lord); but we have no faith in the etymology; it was, however, often applied to the wigged and gowned judges, as being, in their appearance, more like women than men—for “lurdon,” though applied to a male, is generally used for a lazy woman.—Ed.
[E] This famous abduction was reported by Lord Fountainhall. Every circumstance is literally true.—Ed.
[F] Our author, Hugh Miller, never communicated to the Editor his authority for these “Recollections.” Probably it was of the same kind as that possessed by Lucian, Lord Lyttleton, and Walter Savage Lander; but whether so or not, we must at least be well satisfied that the parts of the conversation sustained by the principal interlocutor are true to the genius and character of Burns, and that, however searching the thoughts or beautiful the sentiments, they do not transcend what might have been expected from the Bard himself.—Ed.