[309] Two London playhouses.--See Knight's _Biography of Shakespeare_. [310] Molière's _La Princesse d'Élide_ (Prologue). [311] See Crabbe's Tale of _The Struggles of Conscience_.--J.G.L. [312] _Tales of a Grandfather_, Miscell. Prose Works, vol. xxiii. p. 72. [313] See _Tales of the Genii_. _The Talisman of Oromanes_. [314] Eldest daughter of William Fraser of Balnain.--See Burgon's _Life of P.F. Tytler_, 8vo, Lond. 1859. Mrs. Tytler died in London, aged eighty-four, in 1837. [315] Alexr. Fraser Tytler, 1747-1813. Besides his acknowledged works, Lord Woodhouselee published anonymously a translation of Schiller's _Robbers_ as early as 1792. [316] Henry Cranstoun, elder brother of Lord Corehouse and Countess Purgstall. He resided for some years near Abbotsford, at the Pavilion on the Tweed, where he died in 1843, aged eighty-six. An interesting account of Countess Purgstall is given by Basil Hall, who was with her in Styria at her death in 1835. This very early friend of Scott's was thought by Captain Hall to have been the prototype of Diana Vernon--"that safest of secret keepers."--See _Schloss Hainfeld_, 8vo, Lond. 1836. [317] The property of Gattonside had been purchased in 1824 by George Bainbridge of Liverpool, a keen angler, author of _The Fly Fisher's Guide_, 8vo, Liverpool, 1816. [318] Lady Anna Maria Elliot, see _ante_, p. 133. [319] W. Scott of Maxpopple. [320] In the fairy tale of Countess D'Aulnoy--_Fortunio_. [321] See Johnson's _Rambler_, Nos. 204 and 205. [322] Afterwards Sir Philip Crampton. "The Surgeon-General struck Sir Walter as being more like Sir Humphry Davy than any man he had met, not in person only, but in the liveliness and range of his talk."--_Life_, vol. viii. p. 23. [323] Gaelic for "old women." [324] William Douglas, fourth Duke of Queensberry, succeeded, on the death of his kinsman, Duke Charles, in 1778. He died in 1810 at the age of eighty-six, when his titles and estates were divided between the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry, and the Earl of Wemyss. See Wordsworth's indignant lines beginning: "Degenerate Douglas, oh the unworthy Lord"; also _George Selwyn and his Contemporaries_, 4 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1843-4. [325] Alexander, tenth Earl of Home, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch. [326] Charles, second son of Archibald Lord Douglas. [327] James Thomas, Viscount Stopford, afterwards fourth Earl of Courtown, and his wife, Lady Charlotte, sister of the then Duke of Buccleuch, at that time still in his minority. Lady Charlotte died within eighteen months of this date. [328] "Thus Kitty, beautiful and young, And wild as colt untamed." Prior's _Female Phaeton_.