Edinburgh:
Printed by W. and R. Chambers.
[Illustration: Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh.]
The state of the Leg-of-Mutton-School of verse[242] in Scotland at the
end of the seventeenth century, may be pretty fairly inferred from this
specimen.]
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Footnote 1:
A very animated review of these affairs will be found in Mr Burton’s
excellent _History_.
Footnote 2:
_Collection of Papers_, &c. London, Richard Janeway, 1689.
Footnote 3:
_Account of the Pope’s Procession at Aberdene_, &c., reprinted in
Laing’s _Fugitive Poetry of the Seventeenth Century_.
Footnote 4:
_Biographia. Presbyteriana_, i. 221.
Footnote 5:
Under this title, a pamphlet, detailing the _outing_ and _rabbling_ of
the clergy, was published in London in 1690.
Footnote 6:
Stewart’s _Sketches of the Highlanders_, i. p. 99, note.
Footnote 7:
Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 338.
Footnote 8:
_Life and Diary of Lieutenant-colonel Blackader of the Cameronian
Regiment._ By Andrew Crichton. Edin. 1824.
Footnote 9:
Privy Council Record, MS., Gen. Register House, Edinburgh.
Footnote 10:
Home of Crossrig’s _Diary_. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1843.
Footnote 11:
_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 408, 432.
Footnote 12:
_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 12.
Footnote 13:
On the 12th February 1690, the Privy Council had under their notice
the case of a man named Samuel Smith, who had been imprisoned in the
Edinburgh Tolbooth for three years on a charge of theft, without
trial, and ordained him to be set at large, there being ‘no probation’
against him.
Footnote 14:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 15:
Privy Council Record, under February 22, 1698.
Footnote 16:
_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_ [by Drummond of Balhadics],
p. 243.
Footnote 17:
_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_, p. 254.
Footnote 18: