had not as yet been published.
 
10 Probably Dr. Hutton, the celebrated geologist.
 
11 A sort of tally generally used by bakers of the olden time in settling with
their customers. Each family had its own nick-stick, and for each loaf as
delivered a notch was made on the stick. Accounts in Exchequer, kept by the same
kind of check, may have occasioned the Antiquary's partiality. In Prior's time
the English bakers had the same sort of reckoning.
 
Have you not seen a baker's maid,
Between two equal panniers sway'd?
Her tallies useless lie and idle.
If placed exactly in the middle.
 
12 (Milton's Comus.)
 
13 (Lycidas.)
 
14 The outline of this story is taken from the German, though the Author is at
present unable to say in which of the various collections of the popular legends
in that language the original is to be found.
 
15 The shadow of the person who sees the phantom, being reflected upon a cloud
of mist, like the image of the magic lantern upon a white sheet, is supposed to
have formed the apparition.
 
16 The king's keys are, in law phrase, the crow-bars and hammers used to force
doors and locks, in execution of the king's warrant.
 
17 Links, or torches.
 
18 A great deal of stuff to the same purpose with that placed in the mouth of
the German adept, may be found in Reginald Scott's Discovery of Witchcraft,
Third Edition, folio, London, 1665. The Appendix is entitled, »An Excellent
Discourse of the Nature and Substances of Devils and Spirits, in two Books; the
first by the aforesaid author (Reginald Scott), the Second now added in this
Third Edition as succedaneous to the former, and conducing to the completing of
the whole work.« This Second Book, though stated as succedaneous to the first,
is, in fact, entirely at variance with it; for the work of Reginald Scott is a
compilation of the absurd and superstitious ideas concerning witches so
generally entertained at the time, and the pretended conclusion is a serious
treatise on the various means of conjuring astral spirits.
 
19 The author cannot remember where these lines are to be found: perhaps in
Bishop Hall's Satires.
 
20 It is, I believe, a piece of free-masonry, or a point of conscience, among
the Scottish lower orders, never to admit that a patient is doing better. The
closest approach to recovery which they can be brought to allow, is, that the
party