Note 2 — JOHN BROWN; OR, THE HOUSE IN THE MUIR.

“Red Rob,” the “Bothwell,” probably, of “Old Mortality,” was, in fact, the right hand man of Clavers on all occasions, and has caused himself long to be remembered amidst the peasantry of the West of Scotland, not only by the dragoon’s red cloak, which he wore, but still more by his hands, crimsoned in the blood of his countrymen!