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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
page 152 note 1 The Bishop of Rochester usually signs himself “Roffen.”
page 159 note 1 Johnson was the name by which George Kelly was known amongst the conspirators.
page 164 note 1 The King spoke no English.
page 167 note 1 Probably Mrs. Dennis Kelly; see note “Dennis Kelly,” infra.
page 172 note 1 The Queen was acting as Regent in the King's absence.
page 179 note 1 “Sursa rara ” stands for “Certiorari,” a writ by which the record of proceedings in a cause is brought up from an inferior to a superior court. The poet seems to use the word as equivalent to “certificate.”
page 187 note 1 The Southerner's idea of a Highlander at this period may be gathered from Marchant's account (History of the Rebellion, p. 213) of the gentleman at Derby, in December, 1745, who laughed to see these desperadoes, as he called them, pull off their bonnets and say grace before their meals, like so many primitive Christians.
page 189 note 1 Geo. II, B. 92. The petition is wrongly endorsed 1746 and is amongst the documents of that year.
page 194 note 1 Sir Thomas Ianson, or Janson, or I'onson as Williamson writes it, was Gentleman Porter; see entry April 18, 1746.
page 228 note 1 Beating-Order; “A certificate given to a recruiting sergeant” (New Eng. Dict.). In the present instance it appears that Walkinshaw had applied for authority to recruit for the Scots Dutch brigade.