page 391 note * Brunton, and Haig's, “Senators of the College of Justice,” 99Google Scholar.

page 391 note † “Staggering State” under “Directors of Chancery.”

page 391 note ‡ “Inquisitiones Speciales,” II. (1554)

page 392 note * Douglas Baronage, 221–4.

page 392 note † Robert Scot is by the poet Alexander Montgomery celebrated in the following epitaph:—

“Good Robert Scot, sen thou art gone to God,

Cheif of our souerane Colledge Justice Clerks,—

Vho, vhill thou liv'd, for honestie wes od

As wryt beris witness of thy worthy werks:

So faithful, formall, and so frank and frie

Sall nevir vse that office eftir thee.”

Montgomery's Poems, edited by David Irving, Edin., 1821, 8vo., p. 243.

page 392 note ‡ Staggering State.

page 392 note § Douglas Baronage, 222.

page 393 note * Balfour's Annals, ii., 147.

page 393 note † Caspar Barlaeus or Van Baarle, a Dutch Latin poet, was born at Antwerp in 1584. He was some time Professor of Logic in the University of Leyden, and afterwards occupied the Chair of Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Athenæum at Amsterdam. His poems, which are numerous and on a great variety of subjects, were first printed at Leyden in 1631. He published other works, also in the Latin tongue.

page 394 note * The series, which was completed in 1693, extended to twenty volumes, and included compositions of the best Latin poets in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, and the Low Countries.

page 394 note † “Staggering State,” postea.

page 394 note ‡ Brunton & Haig., 280.

page 395 note * Kirksession Records of Ceres.

page 395 note † Balfour's Annals, II., 293–5.

page 395 note § Balfour's Annals, III., 26.

page 395 note ‡ Baillie's Letters and Journals, I., 309.

page 395 note ∥ Acts Parl. v., 466.

page 396 note * Baillie's Letters and Journals, I. 399.

page 396 note ‡ Report, University Commissioners, 1837, pp. 207–211.

page 396 note † DrScott's, “Fasti,” II., 537Google Scholar.

page 400 note * Balfour's Annals, iii., 185.

page 400 note † Report, University Commissioners, 1837, pp. 207–211.

page 401 note * Timothy Pont was younger son of the celebrated Mr. Robert Pont, minister of St. Cuthbert's, and one of the Lords of Session. He studied at St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, and passed M.A. about 1583. He was ordained minister of Dunnet Orkney, in 1601, and received from his father the lands of Strathmartin, in Forfarshire. In 1609 he obtained a grant of 2,000 acres in the province of Ulster, An expert mathematician and geographer, he entered on his Scottish survey with extraordinary ardour, penetrating on foot into the wildest solitudes. The originals of his maps are preserved in the Advocates Library. His only publication was a Topographical Account of Cunningham, Ayrshire, which was edited for the Maitland Club in 1858.

page 401 note † “Miscellany of the Spalding Club,” i., Preface, 37.

page 401 note ‡ DrScott's, “Fasti,” iii., 360Google Scholar.

page 402 note * Nicolson's, “Scot. Hist. Library,” 18Google Scholar.

page 402 note † He spent whole days in Bleau's house, at Amsterdam, writing descriptions of the counties from memory. (Bleau's, “Atlas,” vi., 86Google Scholar.)

page 403 note * Straloch Papers, 52.

page 403 note ‡ Straloch Papers, 54.

page 403 note † Balfour's, “Annals,” iii., 351Google Scholar.

page 403 note § Map.

page 404 note * Preceding the maps are nineteen discourses relating to the history and general condition of the kingdom, including a long descriptive poem by Andrew Melvill, entitled “Andreae Melvini Scotiæ Topographia.”

page 404 note † According to Nicolson, Bleau dedicated the edition of 1655 to Cromwell, and in the same abused Straloch, omitting several of his best descriptions, particularly those of Aberdeenshire and Banff (Nicolson's, “Scot. Hist. Lib.,” p. 18Google Scholar).

page 404 note ‡ Straloch Papers, 53.

page 405 note * Nearly all the maps in Bleau's Atlas are inscribed to leading noblemen, whose armorial escutcheons are elegantly emblazoned on them.

page 405 note † The Earl of Southesk had not fulfilled his intention, for the map of Angus (Forfarshire) does not appear in Bleau's Atlas.

page 406 note * Straloch Papers, 56–7.

page 407 note * Sir John's connexion with the West of Scotland was, it is believed, through his maternal grandmother.

page 407 note † The fire took place on the 17th June, 1652. About eighty alleys were destroyed, and the corporation apprehended that, without foreign help, the city would be ruined.—Dr. Strang's Bursaries, &c, of Glasgow, 71–74.

page 407 note ‡ In his bequest, addressed to the magistrates and town council of Glasgow, dated 7th and 13th June, 1653, and in a second contract, dated 28th April, 1658, Sir John refers to “the love he had for the city, being the finest city of the west, out of which country he descended, and in consideration of the calamity of the inhabitants through fire.”—Dr. Strang's Bursaries.

page 407 note § The farm of Peckie, or Peckie Mill, is situated about four miles south-east of St. Andrews, and lies between the estate of Kenly Green and the lands of Kenly, the latter belonging to St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews. It consists of about 104 acres, chiefly arable.

page 408 note * We are indebted to the City Chamberlain of Glasgow for an account of the present condition of the charity.

page 408 note † Sage's “Life of Drummond.”

page 408 note ‡ William Drummond of Hawthomden, died 4th December, 1649. He experienced a severe shock on the execution of Charles I., from which he did not recover.

page 409 note * Thurloe's, “State Papers,” vii., 421Google Scholar.

page 410 note * Diary and Memoir of Alexander Jaffray, by Barclay, John, London, 1733, 8vo., passimGoogle Scholar.

page 410 note † The volume is entitled, “The Poems of that most famous wit, Mr. William Drummond, of Hawthornden,” 1656. 8vo.

page 410 note ‡ Brunton and Haig, 281.

page 410 note ∥ “Staggering State.”

page 410 note ** Nisbet's, “Heraldry,” ii., 293Google Scholar.

page 410 note § Act Parl. vii., 421.

page 410 note ¶ Situated in the parish of Ceres, Fifeshire.

page 410 note †† Douglas's, Baronage, 222Google Scholar.

page 410 note ‡‡ On the 17th May, 1642, the Kirksession of Kinghorn assigned “to Sir Jhone Scott of Scotstarvet, and his wyfe and children for sepulture in the south-east part of the church, extending in lenght sexten foot from the east end westward, and fyftin foot of breadth from the south wall to the partition wall of the quier.” Sir John was proprietor of Pitmeadie, in Kinghorn parish, and had claimed a right of interment in the church (Kirk Session Records of Kinghorn).

page 411 note * William Dick, a wealthy Edinburgh merchant, and Lord Provost of the city, was in January, 1642, created a baronet of Nova Scotia. He gave large loans to Charles I., and afterwards to escape annoyance gave £64,934 sterling to the Parliament. He was thrown into prison by Cromwell, and died at Westminster, 19th December, 1655, in a condition of poverty.

page 411 note † “Inquisitiones Speciales,” Fife, 1046.

page 412 note * Douglas's Baronage, 224.

page 412 note † “Inquisitiones Speciales,” Fife, 867.

page 412 note ‡ A Bible which belonged to Sir John Scot, and in which the births of certain members of the family are recorded, has, though in the hands of strangers, been carefully preserved. It is a thick folio, with the text in French and Latin, bearing the title, “Latino-gallica la Bible Francoise-latine, 1568.” At the back of the title-page is attached a printed book-slip with these words:—“Mr. Iohn Scot, Director our Soueraigne Lords Chancellarie,” and on the last blank page of the volume are the entries quoted above with those following:—

“Sir James Scott, of Tarvett, had a sone baptised, named James, in Angus, in the parish of Enderkillour, the beginning of Sept. 1644.

“William Scott, sone to Mr. George Scott, of Pittodie, was borne the 7 day of Feb. 1666 years.”

Sir John's Bible was purchased by Principal Lee at the book sale of Professor Flint, of St. Andrews. At the Principal's own sale it was purchased by Mr. Adam Sim, of Coulter Mains, at whose sale in 1869 it was knocked down for 2s. 6d. to Mr. Levy, Prince's Street, Edinburgh.