[98] For this and one or two other examples of noted shoemakers the writer is indebted to a series of most interesting articles entitled “Concerning Shoes and Shoemakers,” in the Leisure Hour, 1876.
[99] Born 1676; died 1756. Bennett is placed out of his chronological order because it seems most fitting that he should follow the benevolent Castell.
[100] Selkirkshire, otherwise called Ettrick Forest.
[101] Berwickshire, otherwise, called the Merse.
[102] See “Border Minstrelsy.”
[103] Scott’s “Border Minstrelsy,” foot-note.
[104] Note IV. to Canto IV., “Lay of the Last Minstrel.”
[105] Risp and rive, creak and tear.
[106] To twitch the thread as shoemakers do in securing the stitches.
[107] “Biographical History of England,” vol. iii.