the keel or chalk with which farmers mark their flocks.
 
3 Note, by Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham. - That I kept my plight in this melancholy
matter with my deceased and lamented friend, appeareth from a handsome
headstone, erected at my proper charges in this spot, bearing the name and
calling of Peter Pattieson, with the date of his nativity and sepulture;
together also with a testimony of his merits, attested by myself as his superior
and patron. - J.C.
 
4 James, Seventh King of Scotland of that name, and Second according to the
enumeration of the Kings of England. - J.C.
 
5 I deem it fitting that the reader should be apprised that this limitary
boundary between the conterminous heritable property of his honour the Laird of
Gandercleugh, and his honour the Laird of Gusedub, was to have been in fashion
an agger, or rather murus of uncemented granite, called by the vulgar a dry-
dyke, surmounted, or coped, cespite viridi, i.e. with a sod turf. Truly their
honours fell into discord concerning two roods of marshy ground, near the cove
called the Bedral's Beild; and the controversy, having some years bygone been
removed from before the judges of the land (with whom it abode long), even unto
the great city of London and the Assembly of the Nobles therein, is, as I may
say, adhuc in pendente. - J.C.
 
6 He might have added, and for the rich also; since I laud my stars, the great
of the earth have also taken harbourage in my poor domicile. And, during the
service of my handmaiden Dorothy, who was buxom and comely of aspect, his Honour
the Laird of Smackawa, in his peregrinations to and from the metropolis, was
wont to prefer my Prophet's Chamber even to the sanded chamber of dais in the
Wallace Inn, and to bestow a mutchkin, as he would jocosely say, to obtain the
freedom of the house, but, in reality, to assure himself of my company during
the evening. - J.C.
 
7 The Festival of the Popinjay is still, I believe, practised at Maybole, in
Ayrshire. The following passage in the history of the Somerville family
suggested the scenes in the text. The author of that curious manuscript thus
celebrates his father's demeanour at such an assembly: -
»Having now passed his infancie, in the tenth year of his age, he was by his
grandfather putt to the grammar school, ther being then att the toune of Delserf
a very able master that taught