Saying, Be content, be content, Rob Roy, he was my father called, Have heard MacGregor's fame, lady. He was a hedge about his friends, I am as bold, I am as bold, I am as bold and more, lady; May try my gude claymore, lady. Then be content, be content, Be content with me, lady; No. VI. GHLUNE DHU. THE following notices concerning this Chief fell under the Author's eye while the sheets were in the act of going through the press. They occur in manuscript memoirs, written by a person intimately acquainted with the incidents of 1745. This Chief had the important task intrusted to him of defending the castle of Doune, in which the Chevalier placed a garrison to protect his communication with the Highlands, and to repel any sallies which might be made from Stirling Castle. Ghlune Dhu distinguished himself by his good conduct in this charge. Ghlune Dhu is thus described:" Glengyle is, in person, a tall handsome man, and has more of the mein of the ancient heroes than our modern fine gentlemen are possessed of. He is honest and disinterested to a proverb-extremely modest-brave and intrepid-and born one of the best partisans in Europe. In short, the whole people of that country declared that never did men live under so mild a government as Glengyle's, not a man having so much as lost a chicken while he continued there. It would appear from this curious passage that Glengyle-not Stewart of Balloch, as averred in a note on Waverley commanded the garrison of Doune. Balloch might, no doubt, succeed MacGregor in the situation. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. NOVELS AND TALES. VOL. VII. ROB ROY. SUPERVISORS OF EXCISE.-P. 58, 1. 1. The introduction of gaugers, supervisors, and examiners, was one of the great complaints of the Scottish nation, though a natural consequence of the Union. PAPIST AND SUSPECTED PERSON.-P. 117, 1. 21 On occasions of public alarm, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, the horses of the Catholics were often seized upon, as they were always supposed to be on the eve of rising in rebellion. ABBESS OF WILTON.-P. 161, 1. 4. On The nunnery of Wilton was granted to the Earl of Pembroke upon its dissolution, by the magisterial authority of Henry VIII., or his son Edward VI. the accession of Queen Mary, of Catholic memory, the Earl found it necessary to reinstal the Abbess and her fair recluses, which he did with many expressions of his remorse, kneeling humbly to the vestals, and inducting them into the convent and possessions from which he had expelled them. With the accession of Elizabeth, the accommodating Earl again resumed his Protestant faith, and a second time drove the nuns from their sanctuary. The remonstrances of the Abbess, who reminded him of his penitent expressions on the former occasion, could wring from him no other answer than that in the text "Go spin, you jade-Go spin." ST ENOCH'S KIRK, (GLASGOW.)-P. 341, 1. 5. This I believe to be an anachronism, as St Enoch's Church was not built at the date of the story. NOVELS AND TALES. VOL. VIII. ROB ROY. GILLON-A-NAILLIE.-P. 27, 1. 4, (foot.) INCH-CAILLEACH.-P. 34, 1. 5, (foot.) Inch-Cailleach is an island in Lochlomond, where the clan of MacGregor were wont to be interred, and where their sepulchres may still be seen. It formerly contained a nunnery; hence the name Inch-Cailleach, or the Island of Old Women. THE HEAD OF THE SOW TO THE TAIL OF THE Anglice, the head of the sow to the tail of the pig. BICKER WI' SNAW-BA'S.-P. 71, 1.7, (foot.) The boys in Scotland used formerly to make a sort of Saturnalia in a snow-storm, by pelting passengers with snow-balls. But those exposed to that annoyance were excused from it on the easy penalty of a baik (curtsy) from a female, or a bow from a man. It was only the refractory who underwent the storm. THIGGING AND SORNING.-P. 80, 1. 13. Thigging and sorning was a kind of genteel begging, |