[9]. Donald the Hammerer, the smith’s step-son. The darling of the mail coats. You lifted a hership from Lochow side that Argyle cannot redeem, nor his son, nor his grandson, nor his great-grandson.
[10]. Grey, withered Argyle, you care little about me, and when I return, as little I’ll care about you.
[11]. Dirty Laugh.
[12]. Dirty laugh they call the rock, and always that way remains; you will the same get with yourself, if your wife’s face you would compare.
[13]. Yellow Stewarts of the locks, that would seize on the kail.
[14]. If we have the locks from ancestry, we have what will draw an arrow.
[15]. Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club.
[16]. This document was produced in a process depending before the Sheriff of Glasgow, as a ‘genuine’ copy of an ‘original’ charter!
[17]. According to Balfour, Malcolm the Third, surnamed Canmore, the successful opponent of Macbeth, “was crouned at Scone” in anno 1057. This present important document shows that, whether crowned or uncrowned, he was King of Scots in 1051.
[18]. This illustrious Earl is not mentioned in any of our peerage writings, and was unknown until this interesting historical document turned up. Hitherto, the first known Earl of Monteith was Murdoch, who flourished in the reign of David I.