had bestowed them on the courtiers and nobility by whose descendants they were at present actually possessed; beneath this list was written, in red letters, in the hand of the deceased, Haud Immemor, F.S.

E.B.the initials probably intimating Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell.

To these documents, which strongly painted the character and feelings of their deceased proprietor, were added some which showed him in a light greatly different from that in which we have hitherto presented him to the reader.
In a secret pocket of the book, which Morton did not discover without some trouble, were one or two letters, written in a beautiful female hand.

They were dated about twenty years back, bore no address, and were subscribed only by initials.

Without having time to peruse them accurately, Morton perceived that they contained the elegant yet fond expressions of female affection directed towards an object whose jealousy they endeavoured to soothe, and of whose hasty, suspicious, and impatient temper, the writer seemed gently to complain.