Note 119 — 221 KATHARINE JAFFRAY

Four-and-twenty bonnie boys of the bridegroom’s party are in C 13 clad in ‘the simple gray;’ for which Scott reads ‘Johnstone grey,’ ‘the livery of the ancient family of Johnstone.’ This circumstance, says this editor, appears to support J, “which gives Katharine the surname of Johnstone.” But the grey is the livery of Lord ‘Faughanwood’ in C, and the Johnstone seems to be a purely capricious venture of Scott’s.