him, being at our mercy to play him
off well, which we did accordingly.« Amid much such nonsense, Lewis's book shows
that this poor child, the heir of the British monarchy, who died when he was
eleven years old, was in truth of promising parts, and of a good disposition.
The volume, which rarely occurs, is an 8vo, published in 1789, the editor being
Dr. Philip Hayes of Oxford.
 
20 Concealment of an individual, while in public or promiscuous society, was
then very common. In England, where no plaids were worn, the ladies used vizard
masks for the same purpose, and the gallants drew the skirts of their cloaks
over the right shoulder, so as to cover part of the face. This is repeatedly
alluded to in Pepys' Diary.
 
21 As few, in the present age, are acquainted with the ponderous folios to which
the age of Louis XIV. gave rise, we need only say, that they combine the dulness
of the metaphysical courtship with all the improbabilities of the ancient
Romance of Chivalry. Their character will be most easily learned from Boileau's
Dramatic Satire, or Mrs. Lennox's Female Quixote.
 
22 Sir James Turner was a soldier of fortune, bred in the civil wars. He was
intrusted with a commission to levy the fines imposed by the Privy Council for
nonconformity, in the district of Dumfries and Galloway. In this capacity he
vexed the country so much by his exactions, that the people rose and made him
prisoner, and then proceeded in arms towards Mid-Lothian, where they were
defeated at Pentland Hills in 1666. Besides his treatise on the Military Art,
Sir James Turner wrote several other works; the most curious of which is his
Memoirs of his own Life and Times, which has just been printed (1829), under the
charge of the Bannatyne Club.
 
23 The Castle of Tillietudlem is imaginary; but the ruins of Craignethan Castle,
situated on the Nethan, about three miles from its junction with the Clyde, have
something of the character of the description in the text.
 
24 This remarkable person united the seemingly inconsistent qualities of courage
and cruelty, a disinterested and devoted loyalty to his prince, with a disregard
of the rights of his fellow-subjects. He was the unscrupulous agent of the
Scottish Privy Council in executing the merciless severities of the Government
in Scotland during the reigns of Charles II. and James II.: but he redeemed his
character by the zeal with which he asserted the cause of the latter monarch
after the Revolution, the military skill with which he