1. J. Black, ‘On the Agriculture of Aberdeen and Banff Shires’, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 1870–1, 4th series, III, pp. 33–4.
2. Cited in David Kerr Cameron, The Cornkister Days (London, 1984), p. 219.
3. Ibid., p. 220.
4. David Kerr Cameron, The Ballad and the Plough (London, 1978), p. 36.
5. Ibid., p. 214.
6. The Horseman’s Creed as recorded in an initiation ceremony in Angus. Timothy Neat, The Horseman’s Word (Edinburgh, 2002), p. 59.
7. Ibid., p. 54.
8. Farmer’s Magazine, XIII (1812), pp. 413–14.
9. Ibid., XXI (1820), p. iii. For other references to stability in the rural Lowlands in the period 1815–36, see PP, Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Present State of Agriculture and Persons employed in Agriculture in the United Kingdom, 1833, p. v, QQ.2745–6, 2755; BPP, First Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the State of Agriculture and into the causes and extent of Distress which still presses on some branches thereof, 1836, VIII, QQ.19180, 10367, 12223, 14064.
10. Quoted in R. Anthony, Herds and Hinds (East Linton, 1997), p. 37.
11. Ibid.
12. Cited in T. M. Devine, ed., Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770–1914 (Edinburgh, 1996 edn), p. 108.
13. Ibid., p. 253.
14. M. Harper, Emigration from North-East Scotland (Aberdeen, 1988), p. 22.
15. Cited in Anthony, Herds and Hinds, p. 94.