FOOTNOTES:

[55] The words ladles and ladler seem to have descended from a time when the exactions were made in kind by ladling the quantity out of the sack.

[56] Hamilton's Reid, p. 43.

[57] Wealth of Nations, Book I. chap. ix.

[58] Muirhead's Life of Watt, p. 470.

[59] Duncan's Notes and Documents, p. 25.

[60] Burton, Life of Hume, ii. 59.

[61] Wealth of Nations, Book V. chap. i. art. iii.

[62] Stewart's Works, x. 49.

[63] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 16.

[64] See Doran's Annals of the Stage, ii. 377.