Abbreviations
APS Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ed. by T. Thomson and C. Innes, 12 vols (Edinburgh, 1814–75)
ASLS The Association for Scottish Literary Studies
BL British Library
Bruce Barbour’s Bruce, ed. by Matthew P. McDiarmid and James A.C. Stevenson, 3 vols, STS 4th ser., 12, 13, 15 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1980–85)
Chron. Bower Walter Bower, Scotichronicon, ed. by D.E.R. Watt et al., 9 vols (Edinburgh and Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987–98)
Chron. Fordun John of Fordun’s Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. by W.F. Skene, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1871–72)
Chron. Wynt. Wyntoun, Andrew, The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun Printed on Parallel Pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss MSS., with the Variants of Other Texts, ed. by F.J. Amours, 6 vols, STS 1st ser., 50, 53, 54, 56, 57, 63 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903–14).
Compl. The Complaynt of Scotland, by Robert Wedderburn, ed. by A.M. Stewart, STS 4th ser., 11 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1979)
Dreme Sir David Lyndsay, The Dreme of Schir David Lyndsay, in The Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, ed. by D. Hamer, 4 vols, STS 3rd ser., 1, 2, 6, 8 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1931–36)
DOST Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (available at dsl.ac.uk)
EETS Early English Text Society
EETS ES Early English Text Society Extra Series
EETS OS Early English Text Society Original Series
Howl. Richard Holland, The Buke of the Howlat, in Longer Scottish Poems, vol. 1, 1375–1650, ed. by Priscilla Bawcutt and Felicity Riddy (Edinburgh: Scottish Academy Press, 1987)
Inchcolm Chrs. Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm, ed. by D.E. Easson and Angus MacDonald, Scottish History Society, 3rd ser., 32 (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1938)
MED Middle English Dictionary (available at: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary)
NLS National Library of Scotland
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (available at: https://www.oxforddnb.com/)
OED Oxford English Dictionary (available at: https://www.oed.com)
Papyngo Sir David Lyndsay, The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo, in Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems, ed. by Janet Hadley Williams (Glasgow: ASLS, 2000)
RES Review of English Studies
Rot. Parl. Rotuli Parliamentorum, 6 vols (London, 1767–77)
RPS The Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707, ed. by K.M. Brown and others (St Andrews, 2007–) (available at: https://www.rps.ac.uk)
Scal. Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica (1272–1363), ed. and trans. by Andy King, Surtees Society, 209 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005)
SHR Scottish Historical Review
SLJ Scottish Literary Journal
SSL Studies in Scottish Literature
STS Scottish Text Society
Wall. Hary’s Wallace, ed. by Matthew P. McDiarmid, 2 vols, STS 4th ser., 4, 5 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1968–69)
References to Scalacronica and the Complaynt of Scotland are given by page number; to Scotichronicon, by volume and page; to Wyntoun by volume, page and line number; to The Buke of the Howlat, the Dreme and the Papyngo by line number; to Wallace and Bruce by book and line number.
Quotations from Wyntoun use the Cotton Manuscript unless otherwise stated.
I retain yogh (ȝ) and thorn (þ) in quotations but render ß as ‘ss’.