[Footnote 93: _Ibid._, pp. 63, 64.] [Footnote 94: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.] [Footnote 95: _A Reply to the Quarterly Review upon the Vestiarium Scoticum._ William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848, pp. 4-7.] [Footnote 96: See _Reply_, pp. 8-16.] [Footnote 97: An evident misprint for “Watson” in the _Quarterly Review_ article.] [Footnote 98: Professor Skene’s reference here is to a statement in the preface to the _Vestiarium_, to the effect that the Bishop of Ross noted his acquisition of Sir Richard Urquhart’s work in his Diary (which he quotes in full) remaining among a portion of the Douay papers, in the possession of the “late Mr Robert Watson, well known in the history of the Stuart papers.” For an account of Watson’s remarkable career see an article by Andrew Lang in the _Illustrated London News_ of 12th March 1892.] [Footnote 99: _Quarterly Review_ article, p. 67.] [Footnote 100: _Ante_, p. 49.] [Footnote 101: _Ante_, p. 51.] [Footnote 102: Facsimile of John Leslie’s signature as Bishop of Ross in the _Lord Treasurer’s Accounts_, 1564-6, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh. The date of the audit, to which the bishop’s signature is affixed, is 27th June 1566.] [Footnote 103: Facsimile of the signature contained in the _Vestiarium Scoticum_ referred to on preceding page.] [Footnote 104: An example from _Nichols’ Autographs_, obtained from the bishop’s letter to Lord Burleigh, dated Paris, 28th February 1579, preserved in the British Museum.] [Footnote 105: Why the simple red and black check receives the title of Rob Roy is something of a mystery. In _Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland_ (Smith: Mauchline, 1850) it is asserted, and the statement is repeated in _The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland_ (W. & A. K. Johnston: Edinburgh, 1886) without attempt at verification, that three genuine portraits of Rob Roy represent him as wearing it; but these and other so-called Rob Roy portraits—be their value what it may—afford no sanction whatever for the design. The Editor is not aware on what authority the portraits are classed as Rob Roy. He has seen seven paintings, including the three above referred to, in which the figure is identical, all known as Rob Roy, and in each a separate pattern appears, none of them showing the simple red and black check. The tartan is accepted by sound authorities as the old Macgregor clan pattern. There are fine examples of it in a collection of tartans made by the Highland Society of London in 1816-17, labelled and sealed “The MacGregor Tartan for undress ordinary clothing. The Seal of Arms of Sir John MacGregor Murray of MacGregor, Baronet. [Signed] John M. Murray.”] NOTES ON WORKS TREATING OF TARTANS.