[7]. Δεν συστελλομαι νὰ ὁμολογήσω ὅτι ἤμῆν εναντιος τοῦ τοιούτου κινήματυς κατὰ του Σουλτανου· ὄχι διότι θὲν επεθύμουν τῆν ελευθερίαν τοῦ ἔθνους μου ἀλλὰ διότι μ’ εφαινετο ἄωρον το κίνημα, μὲ το νὰ ἦσαν ἀπειροπολεμοι οἱ Ἕλληνες καὶ οἱ πλεῖστοι ἄοπλοι, ὁ δὲ κίνδυνος μεγας.—Perrhaebus, Military Memoirs. Athens, 1836.
[8]. τοῦ Κερατιου κὁλπου—that is, we have no doubt, the large expansion of the Golden Horn west of Galata, and north of the Fanar.
[9]. The modern Greek has lost not a whit of the fine rich flexibility which has made the ancient dialect such a convenient organ for our scientific terminology. The word for Lazaretto used here is λοιμοκαθαρτήριον; and scores of such words are seen on the signboards of the streets of Athens at the present hour.
[10]. Appendix to Spottiswood, p. 29.
[11]. Dr J. H. Todd, who first published this letter, (English Churchman, Jan. 11, 1849), supposed Bishop Taylor to be speaking of Dr Peter Barron of Cambridge, but afterwards, on the evidence being communicated to him, was entirely satisfied, and corrected his mistake. “The author referred to (writes Dr Todd) is certainly Dr Robert Barron of Aberdeen, a divine of whom the Church of Scotland may be justly proud.”—Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, March 1849.
[12]. Upon an allegation of unsoundness of doctrine in some of his works, the General Assembly of 1640 dragged his widow, in custody of a “rote of musketiers,” from her retreat in Strathislay, to enable them to search his house for his manuscripts and letters, a year after his death. The proceedings add some circumstances of inhumanity to the old revolting cases not unknown in Scotland, where a dead man was dug out of his grave to be placed at the bar, tried and sentenced.
[13]. P. 288.
[14]. Vol. iii. p. 331.
[15]. History of Scots Affairs, vol. iii. p. 231.
[16]. Aberdeen, 1635.