 was dismissed,
but after a long imprisonment, and much dilapidation of his estates. It is said
that Swinton's admonitions, while confined in the Castle of Edinburgh, had a
considerable share in converting to the tenets of the Friends Colonel David
Barclay, then lying there in the garrison. This was the father of Robert
Barclay, author of the celebrated Apology for the Quakers. It may be observed
among the inconsistencies of human nature, that Kirkton, Wodrow, and other
Presbyterian authors, who have detailed the sufferings of their own sect for
nonconformity with the established church, censure the government of the time
for not exerting the civil power against the peaceful enthusiasts we have
treated of, and some express particular chagrin at the escape of Swinton.
Whatever might be his motives for assuming the tenets of the Friends, the old
man retained them faithfully till the close of his life.
Jean Swinton, grand-daughter of Sir John Swinton, son of Judge Swinton, as the
Quaker was usually termed, was mother of Anne Rutherford, the author's mother.
And thus, as in the play of the Anti-Jacobin, the ghost of the author's
grandmother having arisen to speak the Epilogue, it is full time to conclude,
lest the reader should remonstrate that his desire to know the Author of
Waverley never included a wish to be acquainted with his whole ancestry.
 
2 His honour Gilbert Goslinn of Gandercleugh; for I love to be precise in
matters of importance. - J.C.
 
3 The Lord Provost was ex-officio commander and colonel of the corps, which
might be increased to three hundred men when the times required it. No other
drum but theirs was allowed to sound on the High Street between the Luckenbooths
and the Netherbow.
 
4 This hook was to enable the bearer of the Lochaber-axe to scale a gateway, by
grappling the top of the door, and swinging himself up by the staff of his
weapon.
 
5 This ancient corps is now entirely disbanded. Their last march to do duty at
Hallowfair had something in it affecting. Their drums and fifes had been wont on
better days to play, on this joyous occasion, the lively tune of
 
                             »Jockey to the fair;«
 
bat on this final occasion the afflicted veterans moved slowly to the dirge of
 
                     »The last time I came ower the muir.«
 
6 The signatures affixed to the death-warrant of Captain Porteous were -
 
ANDREW FLETCHER of Milton, Lord Justice-Clerk.
Sir JAMES MACKENZIE, Lord Royston.
DAVID ERSKINE, Lord Dun.
Sir WALTER PRINGLE, Lord Newhall.
Sir GILBERT ELLIOT, Lord
