Note 98 — INTRODUCTION. (continued 2)

Professor Skene’s reference here is to a statement in the preface to the Vestiarium, to the effect that the Bishop of Ross noted his acquisition of Sir Richard Urquhart’s work in his Diary (which he quotes in full) remaining among a portion of the Douay papers, in the possession of the “late Mr Robert Watson, well known in the history of the Stuart papers.” For an account of Watson’s remarkable career see an article by Andrew Lang in the Illustrated London News of 12th March 1892.