[10] "The Lauderdale Papers." The most important passages in Sharp's
letters will be found in Burton's history, vii. pp. 129-146.

[11] "Memoirs of Captain John Creichton," pp. 57-9.

[12] The torture of the thumbkin is said to have been introduced into
Scotland by Lord Perth, who had seen it practised in Russia. But,
according to Fountainhall, something very like it had been previously
known under the homely name of "Pilliwincks," or "Pilniewinks."

[13] "Duke Lauderdale's party depended so much on this that they began
to divide, in their hopes, the confiscated estates among them, so that
on Valentine's Day, instead of drawing mistresses they drew
estates."--Burnet, ii. 26.

[14] "When the Highlanders went back one would have thought they had
been at the sacking of some besieged town, by their baggage and luggage.
They were loaded with spoil. They carried away a great many horses and
no small quantity of goods out of merchants' shops, whole webs of linen
and woollen cloth, some silver plate bearing the names and arms of
gentlemen. You would have seen them with loads of bedclothes, carpets,
men and women's wearing clothes, pots, pans, gridirons, shoes and other
furniture whereof they had pillaged the country."--Wodrow, ii. 413.




CHAPTER III.