From Mr. Brodie’s house in Brodie’s Close, Lawnmarket, to Bunker’s Hill, is above half-a-mile, and Mr. Sheriff was home some minutes before eight o’clock.--_Creech_. NOTE 17, page 161. Peggy Giles, Jean Watt’s servant, said Mr. Brodie was in her mistress’s house on Thursday afternoon; but this may have been between two and three o’clock, which she called afternoon, in the same way as Smith’s maid said that the first meeting in her master’s was on the Wednesday afternoon, which, by Brown’s evidence, is fixed to have been before three o’clock.--_Creech._ NOTE 18, page 161. A report having been circulated that Mr. Brodie was married to this witness in prison--which, if true, would have disqualified her from being a witness--it seems to have been the object of the Lord Advocate’s questions to ascertain the fact.--_Creech._ NOTE 19, page 162. The Tron Church is near a quarter of a mile from the Parliament Close.--_Creech._ NOTE 20, page 163. This is inconsistent with Jean Watt’s evidence, as she said that Mr. Brodie was not in her house at all on Thursday, and not till Saturday.--_Creech._ NOTE 21, page 178. This doctrine, which had been suppressed in Scotland for above a century, was revived in the course of the memorable trial of Carnegie of Finhaven by the late Lord Arniston, the illustrious grandfather of the present Mr. Solicitor Dundas. Mr. Arnot, speaking of his address to the jury on that occasion, says, “He told them with a manly confidence, which conscious right inspired, that they must not be startled at the interlocutor of the Court.” And they were not startled; for although the facts found relevant to infer a capital punishment were clearly proved, the jury returned a verdict finding the pannel not guilty, because they were of opinion that the interlocutor pronounced by the Court on the relevancy was erroneous.--_Morrison._ NOTE 22, page 182. Old Norval’s speech in “Douglas.”--_Creech._ NOTE 23, page 183. The particulars of this story are as follows:--Major had won a considerable sum of money the night before, and insuch a manner as to lead to suspicion; two gentlemen, therefore, were determined to watch him, and for this purpose planted themselves the next night on each side of his chair, when, taking a proper opportunity, one of them seized his hand with the dice in it; he grasped it close, and would not part with them; the other, seeing this, knocked him down, and in the fall the Major drew with him the first gentleman, who, however, would not let go his hold till he wrested the dice from him. He then presented them to the company, who instantly saw and acknowledged the deceit. The Major was attempting some apology; the company would hear nothing, but turned him out of the room with every mark of disgrace and reprobation.