[146] “Authentic Memoirs of the remarkable Life and surprising Exploits of Mandrin, Captain-General of the French Smugglers, who for the space of nine months resolutely stood in defiance of the whole army of France,” etc. 8vo, Lond. 1755.  See Waverley Novels, vol. xxxvii. p. 434, Note.—­J.G.L.

[147] See Tranent Muir by Skirving.

[148] Addison, Cato, i. 4.

[149] See p. 83.

[150] Variation from 2 Henry IV., Act II.  Sc. 4.

[151] See “Glee for King Charles,” Waverley Novels, vol. xl. p. 40.—­J.G.L.

[152] Lady Louisa Stuart, youngest daughter of John, third Earl of Bute, and grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

[153] The well-known Mathematician and Natural Philosopher.  Professor Playfair died in 1819 in his seventy-second year.

  Have you seen the famed Bas bleu, the gentle dame Apreece,
  Who at a glance shot through and through the Scots Review,
    And changed its swans to geese? 
  Playfair forgot his mathematics, astronomy, and hydrostatics,
  And in her presence often swore, he knew not two and two made four.

[Squib of 1811.]

[154] See Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II.  Sc. 2.

[155] This journey was made in 1810.—­See Life, Chapter xxi. vol. iii. p. 271.

[156] Lady Davy survived her distinguished husband for more than a quarter of a century; she died in London, May 1855.

[157] Twelfth Night, Act II.  Sc. 3.

[158] Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre, then a baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland; he died in June 1837.

[159] This cherished and confidential friend had been living at Kaeside from 1817, and acting as steward on the estate.  Mr. Laidlaw died in Ross-shire in 1845.

Mr. Lockhart says, “I have the best reason to believe that the kind and manly character of Dandie [Dinmont in Guy Mannering], the gentle and delicious one of his wife, and some at least of the most picturesque peculiarities of the menage at Charlieshope were filled up from Scott’s observation, years after this period [1792], of a family, with one of whose members he had, through the best part of his life, a close and affectionate connection.  To those who were familiar with him, I have perhaps already sufficiently indicated the early home of his dear friend, William Laidlaw.” Life, vol. i. p. 268.  See also vol. ii. p. 59; v. pp. 210-15, 251; vii. p. 168; viii. p. 68, etc.

[160] Flax on her distaff.

[161] The English in Italy, 3 vols., Lond. 1825, ascribed to the Marquis of Normanby.

[162] “S.W.S.”  Scott, in writing of himself, often uses these three letters in playful allusion to a freak of his trusty henchman Tom Purdie, who, in his joy on hearing of the baronetcy, proceeded to mark every sheep on the estate with a large letter “S” in addition to the owner’s initials, W.S., which, according to custom, had already been stamped on their backs.