Volume I Part 61 (2/2)
[958] In MS. G, the name is written in full, ”James Stewart;”
in Vautr. edit. it is contracted as above, ”J. St.”
[959] This word, omitted in the MS., is supplied from Vautr. edit.
[960] In the orig. MS. ”as.”
[961] In Vautr. edit. and MS. G, ”than the pretended.”
[962] In MS. G, ”mony uther thingis.”
[963] In MS. G, ”and the Quein Regent in this cais.” Vautr. edit. has, ”in this cause.”
[964] Vautr. edit. has here in the margin, ”Nota.”
[965] This feeling of jealousy between the Towns of Edinburgh and Leith, originating in narrow-minded policy, was of an old standing. The harbour and mills of Lieth, then known as Inverleith, were granted by Robert the First, in the year 1329, to the community of Edinburgh; and in 1398, they acquired other rights and privileges by purchase from Logan of Restalrig, who possessed the banks of the river. During the 15th and following century, the Magistrates of Edinburgh pa.s.sed some Acts of a very oppressive and illiberal kind, against the inhabitants of Leith. In 1547, during the English invasion, the town and harbour were completely destroyed; but the Queen Regent, in favour of the inhabitants, purchased anew the superiority in 1555, from Robert Logan of Restalrig, for 3000 Scotish money; it was strongly fortified in 1559; and was taken possession of by the French auxiliary troops, on behalf of the Queen Regent, who proposed to have erected the Town into a Royal Burgh. Her death, in June 1560, defeated this project; and the citizens of Edinburgh afterwards obtained the superiority from Mary Queen of Scots, for the sum of 10,000 marks.
[966] In the MS. ”had” is omitted; in MS. G, it is ”hes or had;” in Vautr. edit. ”hath or had.”
[967] The Logans of Restalrig were an ancient family of great influence, from their possessions at Leith and Restalrig. The factious person to whom Knox alludes was Robert Logan, who was arrested by order of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, and committed to prison, 9th September 1560.
[968] In MS. G, ”lawfull heirs and borne counsallers.” Vautr. edit.
omits ”heirs,” or ”heidis,” and reads, ”the lawfull and borne counsellers.”
[969] In Vautr. edit. on the margin, ”Nota.”
[970] Not inserted in MS. G.
[971] See note 538.
[972] In the orig. MS. it is, apparently, ”neir us:” MS. G. has ”micht most noy us;” Vautr. edit. reads, ”might most annoy us.”
[973] In MS. G, ”The caus of the taking of Brochtie Craig.”
[974] In MS. G. and Vautr. edit. ”dutifull.”
[975] In MS. G, ”forced with the Frenchmen, and reullit with be the counsaill of France;” Vautr. edit. has, ”forced with the strength, and ruled by the counsell of France.”
[976] This alludes to the emphatic phrase in the absolution sent from Rome, to Cardinal Beaton's murderers, _remittimus irremissibile_; but which was rejected by the parties who were concerned as not being the ”sufficient a.s.sured absolution,” which had been promised should be obtained for them: see page 203.
[977] George fifth Lord Seaton, was elected Provost of Edinburgh at Michaelmas 1558, by command of the Queen Regent; and he conducted the affairs of the City in such an arbitrary manner, that in April 1559 he committed one of the Bailies and the Town-Clerk to prison. On another occasion he threatened all the Bailies with a similar imprisonment, if, during his absence, they failed in securing certain persons whom he named.--(Maitland's Hist. of Edinburgh, p. 15.)
[978] In MS. G, ”The Lord Seytounis unworthie regiment:” and it omits the three following marginal notes.
[979] In MS. G, ”to steir;” Vautr. edit., as above, has, ”to saile a schippe.”
[980] In the orig. MS. ”baith we and sche.”
[981] In MS. G, ”debtfull;” in Vautr. edit. ”dutifull.”
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