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Note XXXVII. 

 Flourishing Aberdeen. P. 222. 



From the high compliments which the author pays to Aberdeen, 

 Glasgow, Montr ose, and one or two other commercial towns, we 

 must suppose the trade of Scotland, during the sixteenth century, 

 to have been more considerable than is generally believed. 



Note XXXVIII. 



Dundee storm 'd and spoil' d by the rash precipitancy of foreign mer- 

 cenaries. P. 234. 



In 1651, Dundee was taken by storm, by the parliamentary army, 

 commanded by General Monk, with circumstances of great violence 

 and cruelty. Lumsden, the governor, is said to have been put to 

 death after quarter had been given to him. In the statistical ac- 

 count of the parish, .the slaughter is estimated, upon calculations 

 there given, at about one-sixth part of the whole inhabitants. The 

 worthy clergyman gives many traditional particulars of this merci- 

 less assault, which took place 1st September 1651. When our au- 

 thor proceeds to say, that "he that doomed Dundee to die, is dead 

 himself, and doomed ere this," he confirms the opinion expressed 

 in the preface, that lu's Journal had undergone various alterations 

 subsequent to the date assigned to his travels. Monk, who is cer- 

 tainly the person meant, died 3d Jan. 1669-70. 



Note XXXIX. 



Scoon How stands the kirk on all the kingdom ? P. 241. 

 Our author has improved upon, or altered, the legend concerning 

 the Mote-hill at Scone, said by old authors to be termed Omnis 

 Terra, because every Baron in Scotland brought thither a handful 

 of the soil of his estate, in token of his surrendering it to the king, 

 to receive it again in feudal investiture. Mr Franck supposes the 

 foundations of the church to have been laid upon this collection of 

 earth, whereas the common account represents it to have been em- 

 ployed in forming the little mound, or mons placiti, called the Mote- 

 lull. 



