[Footnote 2: Laing translates the word “kyrtlu” as “kirtles;” Gregory and Skene translate it “tunics.”] [Footnote 3: _Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis_, Vol. II., p. 8. Spalding Club.] [Footnote 4: _Scotichronicon_, Gregory’s translation. _Transactions of the Iona Club_, p. 27.] [Footnote 5: _Borthwick’s Remarks on British Antiquities._ Edinburgh, 1776, p. 139.] [Footnote 6: _Pinkerton’s History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart._ London, 1797, Vol. I., p. 493.] [Footnote 7: _Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials_, Vol. I., Part I., p. 114, note.] [Footnote 8: _Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland_, edited by Thomas Dickson, Curator of the Historical Department of H.M. General Register House, Vol. I., 1473-1498, Preface, p. clxxxv, and note; and Glossary, p. 441.] [Footnote 9: Scottish Collection of Gaelic MSS. in Advocates’ Library, No. XVI., A.A., line 2. For the correct reading as well as translation of this interesting manuscript the Editor is indebted to Professor Mackinnon. In the “Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems of Ossian” (Edinburgh, 1805), it is, on the authority of Mr Astle, stated to be a writing of the ninth or tenth century (Report, p. 305). In the opinion of Professor Mackinnon the manuscript cannot be assigned to an earlier period than about 1400.] [Footnote 10: _Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1429_, Record Issue, Vol. II., p. 18.] [Footnote 11: Constable’s edition of Major, published for the Scottish History Society. Edinburgh, 1892, pp. 48, 49.] [Footnote 12: _Ibid._, p. 333.] [Footnote 13: _Ibid._, p. 359.] [Footnote 14: _Lord High Treasurer’s Accounts_, 1537-38, fol. 63, MS., H.M. General Register House.] [Footnote 15: See letter printed in full in _Bannatyne Miscellany_, Vol. I., and also in _Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis_. The Editor is indebted for a correct transcription of the above portion to Mr Augustus W. Franks, C.B., British Museum.] [Footnote 16: _Histoire de la Guerre d’Escosse pendant les Campagnes, 1548 et 1549._ Par Jean de Beaugué. Maitland Club. The translation is that of Donald Gregory. See _Transactions of the Iona Club_, p. 31.] [Footnote 17: _Register of the Privy Council_, Vol. I., p. 136.] [Footnote 18: _The Chronicles of Scotland_, by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Edition 1814, Vol. I., Introduction, p. xxiii.]