[27] _Manuscript Records of the Town-Council_, vol. ix. pp. 9 and 12. [28] _Ibid._ vol. ix. p. 123. [29] Pennecuik’s _Historical Account of the Blue Blanket or Craftsmen’s Banner_. Edinburgh, 1722, p. 135. [30] _Manuscript Records_, vol. xvii. p. 298. [31] _Ibid._ vol. xix. p. 210. [32] _Book of Bon Accord_, 1839, p. 341. [33] _Book of Bon Accord_, 1839, p. 312. [34] Kennedy’s _Annals of Aberdeen_, vol. ii. p. 82, and vol. i. p. 168. [35] _Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis_, Edinb. 1837, pp. 77-78. Sir John G. Dalyell’s _Brief Analysis of the Records of the Bishopric of Moray_, Edinb. 1826, p. 34. [36] Rhind’s _Sketches of Moray_ (1840), p. 114. [37] _A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland Frith_, etc. Edinb. 1701, p. 72. [38] _View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands_, vol. ii. p. 103. Edinb. 1809. [39] Vol. ii. pp. 7, 88. [40] See _Transactions of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland_, vol. i. p. 295. [41] Boece gives with great gravity the following extravagant account of the holy origin of the oily well of Liberton:—“Nocht two milis fra Edinburgh (says he) is ane fontane dedicat to Sanct Katrine, quhair sternis of oulie springis ithandlie (where drops of oil rise constantly) with sic abondance, that howbeit the samin be gaderit away, it springis incontinent with gret aboundance. This fontane rais throw ane drop of Sanct Katrinis oulie, quhilk was brocht out of Mount Sinai, fra hir sepulture, to Sanct Margaret, the blessit Queene of Scotland; and als sone (as soon) as Sanct Margaret saw the oil spring ithandlie, be divine miracle, in the said place, she gart big ane chappell (made be built a chapel) there in the honour of Sanct Katherine.”—_Bellenden’s Translation of Boece’s Hystory and Chroniklis of Scotland_, p. xxxviii. [42] _Memorial of the Rare and Wonderful Things in Scotland_, at the end of his _Abridgement of the Scotch Chronicles_. London, 1612. [43] _Dyet of the Diseased_, book iii. cap. 19. [44] _Trans. of the Society of Antiquaries_, vol. i. p. 324. [45] _The Oily Well; or a Topographico-Spagyrical Description of the Oily Well at St. Catherine’s Chappel, in the Paroch of Liberton._ Edinburgh, 1664. [46] Sir Thomas Murray’s edition of _The Acts of Parliament made by James the First_, etc. (Edinburgh 1681), p. 18; or T. Thomson’s edition of _The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland_ (1814), vol. ii. p. 16. [47] Surtees’ _Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham_, vol. i. p. 127. [48] Nicolson and Burns’ _History of Westmoreland and Cumberland_, vol. ii. p. 250. [49] Dugdale’s _Monasticon Anglicanum_, tom. ii. p. 458. Tanner’s _Notitia Monastica_ (fol. edit.), p. 395.