{186b} ‘Act.  Parl.  Scot.,’ vol. vi. pt. i. p. 514.

{187} Hume Brown, vol. ii. p. 339.

{208} The Boot was an old French and Scottish implement.  It was a framework into which the human leg was inserted; wedges were then driven between the leg and the framework.

{225} Many disgusting details may be read in the author’s ’Life of Sir George Mackenzie.’

{226} Hume Brown, ii. 414, 415.

{250} Dr Hay Fleming finds no mention of this affair in the Minutes of the Societies.

{254a} All this is made clear from the letters of the date in the Stuart Papers (Historical Manuscript Commission).

{254b} In addition to Saint Simon’s narrative we have the documentary evidence taken in a French inquiry.

{264} See ‘The King over the Water,’ by Alice Shield and A. Lang.  Thackeray’s King James, in ‘Esmond,’ is very amusing but absolutely false to history.

{265} ‘The Porteous Trial,’ by Mr Roughead, W.S.

{287} See the author’s ‘History of Scotland,’ iv. 446-500, where the evidence is examined.

{290} ‘Register of Decreets,’ vol. 482.

{293} Tradition in Glencoe.