where their sepulchres may still be seen. It formerly contained a nunnery: hence the name of Inch-Cailleach, or the island of Old Women.
38
The Saltmarket. This ancient street, situate in the heart of Glasgow, has of late been almost entirely renovated.
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The boys in Scotland used formerly to make a sort of Saturnalia in a snow-storm, by pelting passengers with snowballs. But those exposed to that annoyance were excused from it on the easy penalty of a baik (courtesy) from a female, or a bow from a man. It was only the refractory who underwent the storm.
41
Thigging and sorning was a kind of genteel begging, or rather something between begging and robbing, by which the needy in Scotland used to extort cattle, or the means of subsistence, from those who had any to give.
42
The word
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Cutlass.
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An outlaw.
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Plundered.
46
Two great clans fought out a quarrel with thirty men of a side, in presence ot the king, on the North Inch of Perth, on or about the year 1392; a man was amissing on one side, whose room was filled by a little bandy-legged citizen of Perth. This substitute, Henry Wynd—or, as the Highlanders called him, Gow Chrom, that is, the bandy- legged smith—fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on;—so, 'To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a proverb. [This incident forms a conspicuous part of the subsequent novel, 'The Fair Maid of Perth.']
47
The Chronicle of the Kings of England, by Sir Richard Baker, with continuations, passed through several editions between 1641 and 1733. Whether any of them contain the passage alluded to is doubtful.
48
Sackless, that is, innocent.
49
Archilowe, of unknown derivation, signifies a peace-offering.
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Lymphads. The galley which the family of Argyle and others of the Clan Campbell carry in their arms.
51
Lochow and the adjacent districts formed the original seat of the Campbells. The expression of a 'far cry to Lochow' was proverbial.
