[202] _Statistical Account of Scotland_, vol. iii, p. 84.
[203] Sibbald, _History of Fife_, p. 101.
[204] Hume Brown, _Early Travellers in Scotland_, pp. 68-69.
[205] Hume Brown, _Scotland before 1700_, p. 78.
[206] _Breviar. Aberdonen._, _Pars Hyemalis_, fol. lxii.
[207] Book vi, c. 8.
[208] _Vita S. Kentigerni_, pp. lxxxiii-iv.
[209] _Carte Prioratus Insule de May_, Charters 12-18.
[210] _Records of the Priory of the Isle of May_, p. xiv.
[211] _Carte Prioratus_, Charter 24.
[212] _Carte Prioratus_, Charter 25.
[213] Charters 26, 27, 33.
[214] _Carte Prioratus_, Charters 29, 30.
[215] Charter 35.
[216] _Carte Prioratus_, Charter 38.
[217] Charter 39.
[218] _Records of the Priory of the Isle of May_, p. xx and Charter 40.
[219] _Records of the Priory of the Isle of May_, p. xxi and Charter 41.
[220] _Records of the Priory of the Isle of May_, p. ix.
[221] "Proceedings Relative to the Claim of the Abbot and Convent of
Reading on the Priory of the Isle of May", op. cit., p. lxxxv, _et seq._
[222] Op. cit., p. xxv.
[223] Op. cit., p. lxxxiij.
[224] Op. cit., p. xxviij.
[225] Op. cit., p. xxvi.
[226] Op. cit., pp. xcvij, _et seq._
[227] Pinkerton, _History of Scotland_, vol. i, p. 208.
[228] _Records of the Priory of the Isle of May_, p. lxxvi, _et seq._
[229] Lockhart, _Life of Sir Walter Scott_, chap. xxviii.