Note 2 — Chapter IX · GUY MANNERING

Another story, some of the details of which may have suggested a part of the plot, concerns the experiences of James Annesley, a full account of which appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine of July, 1840, and is reprinted in full in Lockhart's Life of Scott, vol. v. Lockhart says, 'That Sir Walter must have read the record of this celebrated trial, as well as Smollett's edition of the story in Peregrine Pickle, there can be no doubt.' The trial took place in 1743. It suggested, perhaps, something of the method by which Glossin undertook to deprive Harry Bertram of his rights. Another legal case, which came within Scott's own knowledge and may have suggested some of the details of the novel, was related by him in a letter to Lady Abercorn. See Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott, vol. 1, p. 292.