_Old Satchells_ (Vol. vi., p. 160.; Vol. vii., p.209.).--Your correspondent
J. O. seems not to be aware that another and a fourth edition of _Old
Satchells' True History_ ("with copious additions, notes, and emendations,"
under the editorial superintendence of William Turnbull, Esq., F.S.A.) is
in course of preparation 'neath the fostering care of Mr. John Gray Bell,
the _pro amore_ publisher of so many historical and antiquarian tracts of
interest. Mr. Bell has already given to the world a _Pedigree of the
Ancient Family of Scott of Stokoe_, edited, with notes, by William Robson
Scott, Ph. D., of St. Leonard's, Exeter, from the original work compiled by
his grandfather, Dr. William Scott, of Stamfordham, Northumberland, then
(1783) representative of the family. The latter gentleman left behind him a
large and valuable collection of MSS. relative to the family, which, as I
learn from the prospectus, will be called into requisition in the
forthcoming reprint of the _Old Souldier of Satchell_. Possibly the
publishers of the second and third editions may have been assisted in their
labours by the learned doctor in question, whose already quoted _Pedigree
of the Scotts of Stokoe_ was issued only a few years prior to the
appearance of the Hawick edition of 1786, not 1784, as accidentally
misprinted in J. O.'s interesting communication.