[1] At this school the celebrated George Buchanan had been educated, as Mr. Hume Brown indicates in his life of the Scots Scaliger.

[2] See Sir James Y. Simpson, by Eve Blantyre Simpson—‘Famous Scots’ Series.

[3] This was The Regicide. It was originally named ‘James i.,’ but afterwards changed.

[4] Provost Stewart of Edinburgh was a warm Jacobite, and was suspected of assisting the Prince to capture the town.

[5] Works of John Home, now first collected, with a Life of the Author by Henry Mackenzie. London, Cadell, 1810.

[6] See Minutes Select Society, Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh.

[7] See John Rae’s Adam Smith.

[8] The Dawn of Radicalism.

[9] Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.

[10] Works of T. G. Smollett, edited by George Saintsbury. London: Gibbings & Co.

[11] Manual of English Prose Literature.

[12] The title Smollett gave to Johnson when requesting the aid of Wilkes to free Francis Barber, Johnson’s black servant, from service on board the Stag. It is the older form of Khan.