[365] Mr. John Dickinson of Nash Mill, Herts, the eminent papermaker.—­J.G.L. Ante, p. 31.

[366] Burns’s Tam o’ Shanter.

[367] See Johnson’s Musical Museum Illustrations, Pt. v.  No. 454.

[368] Henry V. Act II.  Sc. 1.

[369] Daughter of his old friend, Mrs. Maclean Clephane of Torloisk.

[370] “Little Walter,” Thomas Scott’s son, who went to India in 1826, ante, vol. i. p. 103.  He became a General in the Indian Army, and died in 1873.

[371] AEneid VI. 617.

[372] Emanuel de Fellenburg, who died in 1844.

[373] “The History of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Middle of the Ninth Century,” by the Rev. Alex.  Low. 8vo, Edinburgh, 1826.—­See Misc.  Prose Works, vol. xx. pp. 374-6.

[374] Southerne’s Fatal Marriage.

[375] In the Gamester by Moore.

[376] Sir Samuel Shepherd.—­See ante, vol. i. p. 51 n.

[377] Sir Robert Preston, Bart., died in May 1834, aged ninety-five.—–­ J.G.L.

[378] Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh.

[379] See ante, p. 279 note, and for sketch of Adam Rolland of Gask, Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 360-3.

[380] The “frolic and fancy” of Councillor Pleydell were commonly supposed to have been found in Andrew Crosbie, Advocate, but as Crosbie died when Scott was only fourteen, and had retired from the bar for some years, the latter could scarcely have known him personally.  See p. 281 n.

[381] A second dividend of 3s. was declared on December 17, 1830.

[382] An old Galloway proverb. Branks, “a sort of bridle used by country people in riding.”—­Jamieson.  Burns in a Scotch letter to Nicol of June 1, 1787, says, “I’ll be in Dumfries the morn gif the beast be to the fore and the branks bide hale.”—­Cromek’s Reliques, p. 29.

[383] Relating to the changes in the Court of Session.

[384] David Dalrymple of Westhall was a judge of the Court of Session from 1777 till his death in 1784.

[385] King John, Act I. Sc. 1.

[386] A whiting dried in the sun; but “tiled haddocks” and “tiled whitings” are now unknown to the fisher-folk of Cockenzie.

[387] John Philip Wood, editor of Douglas’s Peerage of Scotland, etc., was deaf and dumb; he died in 1838 in his seventy-fourth year.

[388] Coriolanus, Act I. Sc. 9.

[389] Charles S. Daveis of Portland, a friend of Mr. George Ticknor, in whose Life (2 vols. 8vo, Boston, 1876) he is often mentioned.

JULY.