Footnote 695:
_Culloden Papers_, p. 111. _Edin. Ev. Courant_, Oct. 9, 1729. This
chronicle adds: ‘They named the bridge where the parties met
OXBRIDGE.’ A statement which appears somewhat inconsistent with one
already made in our general account of the Highland roads.
General Stewart of Garth, in his interesting book on the Highland
Regiments, makes an amusing mistake in supposing that General Wade
here condescended to be entertained by a set of _cearnochs_, or
cattle-lifters.
Footnote 696:
Notes to 2d ed. of Burt’s _Letters_. There being a distinction between
natural tracks, such as formerly existed in the Highlands, and _made_
roads, and ‘made’ being used here in a secondary and technical sense,
it is not absolutely necessary to suppose, as has been supposed, that
the author of this couplet was an _Irish_ subaltern quartered at Fort
William.
Footnote 697:
In May 1711, the ‘relict’ of Sir John Medina, limner, advertised her
having for sale ‘a great many pictures of several of the nobility,
gentry, and eminent lawyers of this nation,’ at her lodging, ‘the
first stone land above the Tron Church, second story.’—_Ed. Ev.
Courant._
Footnote 698:
Daniel Wilson states, in his work, _Edinburgh in the Olden Time_, that
Scougal possessed Sir James Steuart’s house in the Advocates’ Close,
and there fitted up an additional floor as a picture-gallery.
Footnote 699:
The document is fully printed in the _Edin. Annual Register_ for 1816.
Footnote 700:
_Caledonian Mercury._
Footnote 701:
_Analecta_, iv. 86, 162.
Footnote 702:
Minutely narrated in Burnet.
Footnote 703:
_Caledonian Mercury_, April 6, 1724.
Footnote 704: