NOTES TO GUY MANNERING uve now He then announces to the mock monarch the destruction of his army and fleet. This species of High J.nks was ca led "Ge unto," from the name of the luckless general. I have sen My w played at it. An.org the rest, an excellent freda i ว่ no more (the late Mr. Ke.th of Dunno tar and Rave ston.), gavə me a ludicrous account of a county Senenia.. Com burgh rather unexpectedly, and finding his son, who he had hoped was d.gently studying the law in silence and seclusion, busily engaged in personating the king in a full drama of "Gerunto." The monarch, somewhat surprised at first, passed it off with assurance, calling for a seat to his worthy father, and refusing to accost h.m otherwise than in the slang of the character. This incident-in itself the more comic situation of the two-suggested the scene in the text. [The old play referred to in this note was probably Fletcher's comedy of "Monsieur Thomas," Act IV., no. 2. Seb. Tho. Get up to that window there, and presently, The phrase "To come on high from Trinoly" is een to be found in Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman," Act v., Sc. 1.—Laing.] NOTE 8.--ROADS OF LIDDESDALE, p. 260 The roads of Liddesdale, in Dandie Dinmont's days, could not be said to exist, and the district was only access ble through a succession of tremendous morasses. About thirty years ago the author himself was the first person who ever drove a little open carriage into these wilds, the excellent roads by which they are now traversed being then in some progress. The people stared with no small wonat a sight which many of them had never witnessed in their live before. NOTE 9.-TAPPIT HEN, D. 267 The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret Weel she loed a Hawick gill, I have seen one of these formidable stoups at Provost Haswell's, at Jedburgh, in the days of yoie. It was a pewter measure, the claret being in ancient days served from the tap, and bau cue figure of a hen upon the lid. In later times the name was g.ven to a glass bottle of the same dimensions. These are rare apparitions among the degenerate topers of modern days. NOTE 10.-CONVIVIAL HABITS OF THE SCOTTISH BAR, p. 267 The account given by Mr. Pleydell of his sitting down in the midst of a revel to draw an appeal case was taken from a story told me by an aged gentleman of the elder Pres.dent Dundas of Arniston (father of the younger President and of Lord Melville). It had been thought very desirable, while that distinguished lawyer was king's counsel, that his assistance should be obtained in drawing an appeal case, which, as occasion for such writings then rarely occurred, was held to be matter of great nicety. The solicitor employed for the appellant, attended by my informant acting as his clerk, went to the Lord Advocate's chambers in the Fishmarket Close, as I think. It was Saturday at noon, the Court was just dismissed, the Lord Advocate had changed his dress and booted himself, and his servant and horses were at the foot of the close to carry him to Arniston. It was scarcely possible to get him to listen to a word respecting business. The wily agent, however, on pretence of asking one or two questions, which would not detain him half an hour, drew his Lordship, who was no less an eminent bon vivant than a lawyer of unequaled talent, to take a whet at a celebrated tavern, when the learned counsel became gradually involved in a spirited discussion of the law points of the case. At length it occurred to him that he might as well ride to Arniston in the cool of the evening. The horses were directed to be put in the stable, but not to be unsaddled. Dinner was ordered, the law was laid aside for a time, and the bottle circulated very freely. At nine o'clock at night, after he had been honoring Bacchus for so many hours, the Lord Advocate ordered his horses to be unsaddled; paper, pen and ink were brought; he began to dictate the appeal case, and continued at his task till four o'clock the next morning. By next day's post the solicitor sent the case to London, a chef-d'oeuvre of its kind; and in which, my informant assured me, it was not necessary on revisal to correct five words. I am not, therefore, conscious of having overstepped accuracy in describing the manner in which Scottish lawyers of the old time occasionally united the worship of Bacchus with that of Themis. My informant was Alexander Keith, Esq., grandfather to my friend, the present Sir Alexander Keith of Ravelstone, and apprentice at the time to the writer who conducted the cause. [Compare Lockhart's Life of Scott, vol i., pp. 281-288.] NOTE 11.-GYPSEY COOKING, D. 320 We must again have recourse to the contribution to Blackwood's Magazine, April, 1817: a To the admirers of good eating gypsey cookery seems to have little to recommend it. I can assure you, however, that the cook of a nobleman of high distinction, a person who never read: cien novel without an eye to the enlargement of the culinary science, has added to the 'Almanach des Gourmands' a certa n Parage a la Meg Merrilies de Derncleugh, consisting of game and poultry of all kinds, stewed with vegetables into a soup, whi h rivals in savor and richness the gallant messes of Camacho s wedding, and wh ch the Baron of Bradwardine would certainly have reckoned among the epulae lautiores." The artist alluded to in this passage is Mons. Florence, coɔk to Henry and Charles, late Dukes of Buccleuch, and of high distinction in his profession. NOTE 12.-LORD MONBODDO, p. 343 n's The Burnet whose taste for the evening meal of the ancients is quoted by Mr. Pleydel was the celebrated metaphysici n and excellent man, Lord Monboddo, whose coe. a will not soon be for ot en by those who have shared his c ass c hospitali y. As a Scottis judg he took the designation of his famly s ate His philosophy, as is well known, was of a fanc ful and somewhat fantastic character; but his learning was deep, and he was possessed of a singular power of eloquence, which reminded the hearer of the os rotu dum of the Grove or Academe. Enthusiastically partial to classical hab ts entertainments were always giv n in the even ng, when there was a eirculation of excellent Bordeaux, in flasks garlanded whoses, which were also strewed on the table after the man er of Horace. The best society, whether in respect of rank or literary distin. cn, was always to be found in St. John's Street Canongate. The conv rsation of the excellent old man, his high, gen lemanlik, chiva Ouз spirit, the learning and wit with w ich he defended h s fanci u paradoxes, the kind and liberal spirit of h s h sp ali y must enter thes noctes coenacque dear to al: who, 1 ke young), had the honor of sitting at his b.ari. he author (though then NOTE 18.-LAWYERS' SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, p. 845 It is probably true, as observed by Counsellor Pleydell, that a lawyer's anxiety about his case, supposing him to have been some time in practice, will seldom disturb his rest or digestion. Clients will, however, sometimes fondly entertain a different opinion. I was told by an excellent judge, now no more, of a country gentleman who, addressing his leading counsel, my informer, then an advocate in great practice, on the morning of the day on which the case was to be pleaded, said, with a singular bonhomie, "Weel, my Lord [the counsel was Lord Advocate], the awful day is come at last. I have nae been able to sleep a wink for thinking of it; nor, I dare say, your Lordship either." NOTE 14.-WHISTLING, p. 358 Whistling, among the tenantry of a large estate, is when an individual gives such information to the proprietor or his managers as to occasion the rent of his neighbor's farms being raised, which, for obvious reasons, is held a very unpopular practice. NOTE 15.-HEREZELD, p. 393 This hard word is placed in the mouth of one of the aged tenants. In the old feudal tenures the herezeld, the best horse or other animal on the vassal's lands, became the right of the superior. The only remnant of this custom is what is called the sasine, or a fee of certain estimated value, paid to the sheriff of the county, who gives possession to the vassals of the crown. NOTE 16.-THE GAD, p. 404 This mode of securing prisoners was universally practised in Scotland after condemnation. When a man received sentence of death he was put upon the gad, as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh til the old jail was taken down some years since, and perhaps may be still [1829] in use. GLOSSARY OF WORDS, PHRASES AND ALLUSIONS nacle. See Exod. xxxi. BIDE, BIDDEN, remain, BIG, BIGG, build; BIGGIT BING OUT AND TOUR, BIRTH, an obsolete form BITTLE, or BEETLE, a wooden mallet for beating washed clothes BYE, besides BITTOCK, a little bit boasting |