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{21a} Carruthers, “Abbotsford Notanda,” in R. Chambers’s _Life of Scott_, pp. 115–117 (1891).

{21b} _Ibid._, _p._ 118.

{23a} Carruthers, “Abbotsford Notanda,” in R. Chambers’s _Life of Scott_, pp. 115–117 (1891).

{23b} Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 99.

{24a} Lockhart, _Life of Sir Walter Scott_, _Bart._, vol. ii. pp. 99, 100 (1829).

{25} Ritson of 10th April 1802, in his _Letters of Joseph Ritson_, _Esq._, vol. ii. p. 218. Letter of 10th June 1802, _Ibid._, p. 207. Ritson returned the original manuscript of _Auld Maitland_ on 28th February 1803, _Ibid._, p. 230.

{26a} Carruthers, pp. 128, 131.

{30a} _Sweet William’s Ghost_.

{31a} _Further Essays_, pp. 225, 226.

{32a} _Further Essays_, pp. 227–234.

{41a} _Minstrelsy_, vol. iii. pp. 307–310 (1833).

{41b} _Ibid._, vol. iii. p. 314.

{44a} _Publications of the Modern Language Association of America_, xxi. 4, pp. 804–806.

{47a} _Further Essays_, p. 237.

{47b} Carruthers, p. 128.

{47c} Lockhart, vol. ii. pp. 67, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 79.

{48a} Craig Brown, _History of Selkirkshire_.

{49a} Child, part ix. p. 185.

{51a} Scott to Laidlaw, 21st January 1803; Carruthers, pp. 121, 122.

{53a} _Further Essays_, p. 45.

{53b} Child, part viii. pp. 499–502.

{53c} _Further Essays_, p. 10, where only two references to sources are given.

{54a} Child, part vi. p. 292.

{54b} _Ibid._, part ix. p. 243. Herd, 1776; also C. K. Sharpe’s MS.

{59a} Bain, _Calendar_, vol. iv. pp. 87–93.

{62a} This is scarcely accurate. Hogg, in fact, made up one copy, in two parts, from the recitation of two old persons, as we shall see.

{62b} _Further Essays_, pp. 12–27.

{63a} _Further Essays_, p. 37.

{67a} Scott to Laidlaw, Carruthers, p. 129.

{69a} English version, xi.–xv.

{70a} _Further Essays_, p. 58.

{73a} _Further Essays_, p. 31.

{75a} Godscroft, ed. 1644, p. 100; Child, part vi. p. 295.

{79a} _The Hunting of the Cheviot_, and Herd’s _Otterburn_.

{83a} Herd, and _Complaynte of Scotland_, 1549.

{84a} Child, part ix. p. 244, stanza xiii.

{84b} _Further Essays_, p. 27.

{89} _Further Essays on Border Ballads_, p. 184. Andrew Elliot, 1910. To be quoted as _F. E. B. B._ The other work on the subject is Colonel Elliot’s _The Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads_. Blackwoods, 1906.

{91a} _F. E. B. B._, _p._ 199.

{91b} _F. E. B. B._, _p._ 200.

{93a} _Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads_, p. vi.

{95a} Satchells, pp. 13, 14. Edition of 1892.

{95b} _Ibid._, p. 14.

{95c} _Ibid._, part ii. pp. 35, 36.

{97a} _F. E. B. B._, p. 200.

{98a} Child, _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, part viii. p. 518. He refers to “Letters I. No. 44” in MS.

{98b} See Sargent and Kittredge’s reduced edition of Child, p. 467, 1905. They publish this Elliot version only. The version has modern spelling. On this version and its minor variations from Scott’s, I say more later; Colonel Elliot gives no critical examination of the variations which seem to me essential.

{99a} _F. E. B. B._, p. 184.

{101a} Robert Scott (the poet Satchells’s father) “had Southinrigg for his service” to Buccleuch, says Sir William Fraser, in his _Memoirs of the House of Buccleuch_. (See Satchells, 1892, pp. vii., viii.) But the “fathers” of Satchells “having dilapidate and engaged their Estate by Cautionary,” poor Satchells was brought up as a cowherd, till he went to the wars, and never learned to write, or even, it seems, to read; as he says in the Dedication of his book to Lord Yester.

{102a} _The Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads_, opp. p. 36.

{103a} _Border Papers_, vol. i. pp. 120–127.

{104a} _Border Papers_, vol. i. p. 106.

{106a} Scrope, in _Border Papers_, vol. ii. pp. 148–152.

{106b} _Border Papers_, vol. ii. p. 307, No. 606.

{107a} _Border Papers_, vol. ii. pp. 299–303

{108a} _Border Papers_, vol. ii. p. 356.

{108b} _F. E. B. B._, p. 161.

{110a} See his _Border Minstrelsy_, vol. ii. p. 15.

{110b} _F. E. B. B._, p. 156.

{111a} _T. B. B._, p. 14.

{112a} _T. B. B._, p. 12.

{112b} _T. B. B._, p. 12.

{113a} _Memoirs of Robert Carey_, p. 98, 1808.

{114a} _T. B. B._, pp. 19, 20.

{115} _T. B. B._, p. 20.

{120a} Child, part vii. p. 5.

{120b} Variant E is a patched-up thing from five or six MS. sources and a printed “stall copy.” Jamieson published it in 1817. Motherwell had heard a _cantefable_, or version in alternate prose and verse, which contained the stanza. It is not identical with stanza xxxii. in Scott’s _Jamie Telfer_, but runs thus—

My hounds they all go masterless, My hawks they fly from tree to tree, My younger brother will heir my lands, Fair England again I’ll never see.

Child, part ii. p. 454 _et seqq._ The speaker is young Beichan, a prisoner in the dungeon of a professor of the Moslem faith.

{122a} _F. E. B. B._, pp. 179–185.

{123a} Child, part viii. p. 518.

{125a} Aytoun, in _The Ballads of Scotland_ (vol. i. p. 211), says that his copy of _Jamie Telfer_ “is almost _verbatim_ the same as that given in the _Border Minstrelsy_.” He does not tell us where he got his copy; or why the Captain’s bride’s speech (Sharpe, stanza xxxvi.) differs from the version in Scott and Sharpe. He gives the stanza which comes last in Scott’s copy, and is too bad and enfeebling to be attributed to Scott’s pen. He omits the stanza which has strayed in from other ballads,

“My hounds may a’ rin masterless.”

But as Aytoun confessedly rejected such inappropriate stanzas, he may have found it in his copy and excised it.

{129a} _Minstrelsy_, vol. iii. p. 76, 1803.

{130a} _Further Essays_, p. 112.

{131a} _Further Essays_, p. 112.

{135a} In _Minstrelsy_, vol. ii. p. 35 (1833).

{139a} _Further Essays_, p. 124.

{139b} _Border Papers_, vol. ii. p. 367.

{140a} _Further Essays_, pp. 123, 124.

{140b} _Border Papers_, vol. ii. p. 121.

{142a} _Further Essays_, p. 125.

{142b} Birrell’s _Diary_ vouches for the irons.

{142c} _Further Essays_, p. 128.

{146a} Sargent and Kittredge, pp. xxix., xxx.

{147a} Hales and Furnivall, ii. pp. 205–207.

{148a} _Further Essays_, p. 45.

{150a} _Ballads_, p. xxix.