[Footnote 1: G. Chalmers ascribed this to one "Balantyne." In Lockhart's
_Memoirs_, Lond. 1714, Mr. John Balantyne, the minister of Lanark, is
noticed as the most uncompromising opponent of the Union. I shall therefore
assign the _Comical History_ to him until I find a better claimant.]
[Footnote 2: This resembles in its doggrel style _Scotland's Glory and her
Shame_, and _A Poem on the Burgess Oath_. Can any of your correspondents,
familiar with Scottish typographical curiosities, tell me who was the
author, or authors, of these?]
[Footnote 3: _A Phoenix, or the Solemn League and Covenant, &c._, 12mo. pp.
168, with a frontispiece representing Charles burning the book of the
Solemn League and Covenant, above the flames from which hovers a phoenix.]
[Footnote 4: I have not met with the name of such a bookseller elsewhere,
and would like to hear the history of this book; it was again published
with the addition of _The Martial Achievements of the Robertsons of
Struan_, and in imitation of the original is printed at Edinburgh by and
for Alexander Robertson, in Morison's Close, where subscribers may call for
their copies (1785?).]
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