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Some saw an arm, and some a hand,
And some the waving of a gown.
The guests in silence pray'd and shook,
And terror dimm'd each lofty look.
But none of all the astonish'd train
Was so dismay'd as Deloraine;

His blood did freeze, his brain did burn,
"T was fear'd his mind would ne'er return;
For he was speechless, ghastly, wan,
Like him of whom the story ran,
Who spoke the spectre-hound in Man.' (24)
At length, by fits he darkly told,
With broken hint, and shuddering cold—
That he had seen, right certainly,
A shape with amice wrapp'd around,
With a wrought Spanish baldric bound,
Like pilgrim from beyond the sea;
And knew-but how it matter'd not-
It was the wizard, Michael Scott!

XXVII.

The anxious crowd, with horror pale,
All trembling heard the wond'rous tale.
No sound was made, no word was spoke,
Till noble Angus silence broke;

And he a solemn sacred plight
Did to St Bride of Douglas make, (25)
That he a pilgrimage would take
To Melrose Abbey, for the sake

Of Michael's restless sprite.
Then each, to ease his troubled breast,

To some bless'd saint his prayers address'd;
Some to St Modan made their vows,
/Some to St Mary of the Lowes,
Some to the Holy Rood of Lisle;

Some to our Ladye of the Isle ;

Each did his patron witness make,
That he such pilgrimage would take,

And monks should sing, and bells should toll,
All for the weal of Michael's soul.

While vows were ta'en, and prayers were pray'd,
T is said the noble dame, dismay'd,
Renounced for aye dark magic's aid.

XXVIII.

Nought of the bridal will I tell,
Which after in short space befel;
Nor how brave sons, and daughters fair,
Bless'd Teviot's Flower and Cranstoun's heir;
After such dreadful scene, 't were vain
To wake the note of mirth again.
More meet it were to mark the day
Of penitence and prayer divine,
When pilgrim chiefs, in sad array,
Sought Melrose' holy shrine.

XXIX.

With naked foot, and sackcloth vest,
And arms enfolded on his breast,

Did every pilgrim go;

The standers-by might hear unneath, Footstep, or voice, or high-drawn breath, Through all the lengthen'd row:

1 The Isle of Man,-See Note.

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And slow up the dim aisle afar,
With sable cowl and scapular,
And snow-white stoles, in order due,
The holy fathers, two and two,
In long procession came;
Taper, and host, and book they bare,
And holy banner flourish'd fair
With the Redeemer's name:
Above the prostrate pilgrim band
The mitred abbot stretch'd his hand,
And bless'd them as they kneel'd:
With holy cross he sign'd them all,
And pray'd they might be sage in hall,
And fortunate in field.

The mass was sung, and prayers were said,
And solemn requiem for the dead;

And bells toll'd out their mighty peal

For the departed spirit's weal;
And ever in the office' close
The hymn of intercession rose;
And far the echoing aisles prolong
The awful burthen of the song,-
DIES IRE, DIES ILLA,

SOLVET SECLUM IN FAVILLA;
While the pealing organ rung;

Were it meet with sacred strain To close my lay, so light and vain, Thus the holy fathers sung.

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No:-close beneath proud Newark's tower
Arose the Minstrel's lowly bower:
A simple hut; but there was seen
The little garden hedged with green,
The cheerful hearth, and lattice clean.
There shelter'd wanderers, by the blaze,
Oft heard the tale of other days;
For much he loved to ope his door,
And give the aid he begg'd before.
So pass'd the winter's day; but still,
When summer smiled on sweet Bowhill,
And July's eve, with balmy breath,
Waved the blue-bells on Newark heath;
When throstles sung in Hare-head shaw,
And corn was green on Carterhaugh,
And flourish'd, broad, Blackandro's, oak,
The aged harper's soul awoke!
Then would he sing achievements high,
And circumstance of chivalry,
Till the rapt traveller would stay,
Forgetful of the closing day;

And noble youths, the strain to hear,
Forsook the hunting of the deer;
And Yarrow, as he roll'd along,
Bore burden to the Minstrel's song.

NOTES.

CANTO I.

Note 1. Stanza i.

The feast was over in Branksome tower.

In

subject to such egregious inconvenience. When the
bargain was completed, he drily remarked, that the
cattle in Cumberland were as good as those of Teviot-
dale;
and proceeded to commence a system of reprisals
upon the English, which was regularly pursued by his
successors. In the next reign, James II. granted to Sir
Walter Scott of Branksome, and to Sir David, his son,
the remaining half of the barony of Branksome, to be
held in blanch for the payment of a red rose. The
cause assigned for the grant is, their brave and faithful
exertions in favour of the king against the house of
Douglas, with whom James had been recently tugging
for the throne of Scotland. This charter is dated the
2d February, 1443; and, in the same month, part of
the barony of Langholm, and many lands in Lanark-
shire, were conferred upon Sir Walter and his son by
the same monarch,

After the period of the exchange with Sir Thomas Inglis, Branksome became the principal seat of the Buccleuch family. The castle was enlarged and strengthened by Sir David Scott, the grandson of Sir William, its first possessor. But, in 1570-1, the vengeance of Elizabeth, provoked by the inroads of Buccleuch, and his attachment to the cause of Queen Mary, destroyed the castle, and laid waste the lands of Branksome. In the same year the castle was repaired, and enlarged by Sir Walter Scott, its brave possessor; but the work was not completed until after his death, in 1574, when the widow finished the building. This appears from the following inscription. Around a stone, bearing the arms of Scott of Buccleuch, appears the following legend: « SIR W. SCOTT OF BRANXHEIM KNYT YOE OF SIR WILLIAM SCOTT OF KIRKURD Knyt began ye work upon ye 24 of March 1571 ZIER QUHA DEPARTIT AT GOD'S PLEISOUR YE 17 APRIL 1574.» Douglas, with this inscription, «Dame Margaret DougOn a similar compartment are sculptured the arms of LAS HIS SPOUS COMPLEITIT THE FORSAID WORK IN OCTOBER 1576. Over an arched door is inscribed the following

moral verse:

AY.

THARFORE. SERVE. GOD. KEIP. VEIL. TE. ROD. THY. FAME. SAL.
NOCHT. DECAY.

SIR WALTER SCOTT OP BRANXHOLM KNIGHT. MARGARET DOUG-
LAS, 1571.

In the reign of James I. Sir William Scott of Buccleuch, chief of the clan bearing that name, exchanged, with Sir Thomas Inglis of Manor, the estate of Murdiestone, in Lanarkshire, for one half of the barony of Branksome, or Branxholm, lying upon the Teviot, about three miles above Hawick. He was probably induced to this transaction from the vicinity of Brank- IS. VARLD. 16. NOCHT. NATURE. XES. BROUGHT. YAT. SAL. LEST. some to the extensive domain which he possessed in Ettrick Forest and in Teviotdale., In the former district he held by occupancy the estate of Buccleuch, and much of the forest land on the river Ettrick. Teviotdale he enjoyed the barony of Eckford, by a grant from Robert II. to his ancestor, Walter Scott of Branksome Castle continued to be the principal seat Kirkurd, for the apprehending of Gilbert Ridderford, of the Buccleuch family, while security was any object confirmed by Robert III, 3d May, 1424. Tradition im in their choice of a mansion. It has since been the putes the exchange betwixt Scott and Inglis to a con- residence of the commissioners, or chamberlains, of versation, in which the latter, a man, it would appear, the family. From the various alterations which the of a mild and forbearing nature, complained much of building has undergone, it is not only greatly restricted the injuries which he was exposed to from the English in its dimensions, but retains little of the castellated Borderers, who frequently plundered his lands of Brank-form, if we except one square tower of massy thicksome. Sir William Scott instantly offered him the estate of Murdiestone, in exchange for that which was

'Branxholm is the proper name of the barony; but Branksome has been adopted, as suitable to the pronunciation, and more proper for poetry.

There are no vestiges of any building at Buccleuch, except the site of a chapel, where, according to a tradition current in the time of Scott of Satchells, many of the ancient barons of Buccleuch lie buried. There is also said to have been a mill near this solitary

spot; an extraordinary circumstance, as little or no corn grows within several miles of Buccleuch. Satchells says it was used to grind corn for the hounds of the chieftain.

ness, the only part of the original building which now remains. The whole forms a handsome modern residence, lately inhabited by my deceased friend, Adam Ogilvy, Esq. of Hartwoodmyres, Commissioner of his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch.

The extent of the ancient edifice can still be traced by some vestiges of its foundation, and its strength is obvious from the situation, on a steep bank surrounded by the Teviot, and flanked by a deep ravine, formed by a precipitous brook. It was anciently surrounded by wood, as appears from the survey of Roxburghshire,

SIELIOTECA UNIVERSITARIA DI TORINO

made for Pont's Atlas, and preserved in the Advocate's Library. This wood was cut about fifty years ago, but is now replaced by the thriving plantations which have been formed by the late noble proprietor, around the ancient mansion of his forefathers.

Note 2. Stanza iii.
Nine-and-twenty knights of fame

Hung their shields in Branksome-ball.

The ancient barons of Buccleuch, both from feudal splendour, and from their frontier situation, retained

in their household, at Branksome, a number of gentle-
men of their own name, who held lands from their
chief, for the military service of watching and warding
his castle. Satchells tells us, in his doggrel poetry,

No barou was better served into Britain;
The barons of Buckleugh they kept their call,
Four and twenty gentlemen in their hall,
All being of his name and kin;

Each two had a servant to wait upon him;
Before supper and dinner, most renowned,
The bells rung and the trumpets sowned:
And more than that, I do confess,
They kept four and twenty pensioners.
Think not I lie, nor do me blame,
For the pensioners I can all name:
There's men alive, elder than I,
They know if I speak truth, or lie
Every pensioner a room did gain,
For service done and to be done;
This I'll let the reader understand,
The name both of the men and land,
Which they possessed, it is of truth.

Both from the lairds and lords of Buckleugh.

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« Pleaseth yt your most gracious highnes to be aduer

tised, that my comptroller, with Raynald Carnaby, desyred licence of me to invade the realme of Scotland, they thought best exploit by theyme might be done, for the annoysaunce of your highnes enemys, where

and to haue to concur withe theyme the inhabitants of Northumberland, suche as was toward me according to theyre assembly, and as by theyre discrecions vpone the same they shulde thiuke most convenient; and soo they dyde mete vpone Monday, before nyght, being the iii day of this instant monethe, at Wawhope, uppon Northe Tyne water, above Tyndaill, where they were to the number of xv c men, and soo invadet Scotland, at the hour of viii of the clok at nyght, at a place called Whele Causay; and before xi of the clok dyd send forth a forrey of Tyndall and Ryddisdaill, and laide all the resydewe in a bushment, and actyvely dyd set vpon a towne called Branxholm, where the lord of Buclough dwellythe, and purpesed theymeselves with a trayne for hym lyke to his accustomed manner, in rysying to all frayes; albeit, that knight he was not at home, and soo they brynt the said Branxholm, and other townes, as to say Whichestre, Whichestre-helme, and Whelley, and haid ordered theymeself soo, that sundry of the said Lord Buclough's servants, who dyd issue fourthe of his gates, was takyn prisoners. They dyd not leve one house, one stak of corne, nor one shyef, without the gate of the said Lord Buclough vnbrynt; and thus aged and frayed, supposing the Lord of Buclough to be within iii or iiii myles to heve trayned him to the bushment; and soo in the breyking of the day dyd the forrey and the bushment mete, and reculed homeward, making theyr way westward from theyre invasion to be over Lyddersdaill, as intending yf the fray frome theyre furst entry by the Scotts' waiches, or otherwyse by warnyng, shulde haue bene gyven to Gedworth and the country of Scotland theyreabouts of theyre invasion; whiche Gedworth is from the Wheles Causay vi myles, that thereby the Scots shulde have cumen further vnto theyme, and more out of ordre; and soo upon sundry good consideracons, before they entered Lyddersdaill, « Of a truth,» says Froissart, as well accompting the inhabitants of the same to be « the Scottish cannot boast great skill with the bow, but rather bear axes, towards your highnes, and to enforce theyme the more with which, in time of need, they give heavy strokes.» thereby, as alsoo to put an occasion of suspect to the The Jedwood-axe was a sort of partisan, used by horse-kinge of Scotts and his counsaill, to be taken anenst men, as appears from the arms of Jedburgh, which bear a cavalier mounted, and armed with this weapon. It is also called a Jedwood or Jeddart staff.

Accordingly, dismounting from his Pegasus, Satchells gives us, in prose, the names of twenty-four gentlemen, younger brothers of ancient families, who were pensioners to the house of Buccleuch, and describes the lands which each possessed for his Border service. In time of war with England, the garrison was doubtless augmented. Satchells adds, « These twenty-three pensioners, all of his own name of Scott, and Walter Gladstanes of Whitelaw, a near cousin of my lord's, as aforesaid, were ready on all occasions, when his honour pleased cause to advertise them. It is known to many of the country better than it is to me, that the rent of these lands, which the lairds and lords of Buccleuch did freely bestow upon their friends, will amount to above twelve or fourteen thousand merks a-year.»-History of the Name of Scott, p. 45. An immense sum in those times.

Note 3. Stanza v.

And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow.

Note 4. Stanza vi.

They watch against southern force and guile,
Lest Scroope, or Howard, or Percy's powers,
Threaten Branksome's lordly towers,

From Warkworth, or Naworth, or merry Carlisle. Branksome Castle was continually exposed to the attacks of the English, both from its situation and the

Room, portion of land.

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theyme, amonges theymselves, made proclamacions, for the said inhabitants of Lyddersdaill, without any commanding, vpon payne of dethe, assurance to be prejudice or hurt to be done by any Inglysman vnto theyme, and soo in good ordre abowte the howre of ten of the clok before noon, vppone Tewisday, dyd pass through the said Lyddersdaill, when dyd come diverse of the said inhabitants there to my servauntes, under the said assurance, offerring theymselfs with any service they couthe make; and thus, thanks be to Godde, your highnes' subjects, abowte the howre of xii of the clok at none the same daye, came into this youre

highnes realme, bringing wt theyme above xl Scottsmen prisoners, one of theyme named Scot, of the surname and kyn of the said Lord of Buelough, and of his howsehold; they brought alsoo cee nowtę, and above Ix horses and mares, keeping in savetic frome losse or hurte all your said highnes subjects. There was alsoo a towne, called Newbyggins, by diverse fotmen of Tyndaill and Ryddesdaill, takyn vp of the night, and spoyled, when was slayne ii Scottsmen of the said towne, and many Seotts there hurte; your highnes subjects was xiii myles within the grounde of Scotlande, and is from my house at Werkworthe, above Ix miles of the most evil passage, where great snawes dothe lye; heretofore the same townes now brynt hath not at any time in the mynd of man in any warrs been enterprised unto nowe; your subjects were thereto more encouraged for the better advancement of your highnes service, the said Lord of Buclough beyng always a mortall enemy to this your graces realme, and he dyd say, within xiii days before, he woulde see who durst lye near him; wt many other cruell words, the knowledge whereof was certainly haid to my said servaunts, before theyre enterprice maid vppon him; most humbly beseeching your majesty, that youre highnes thanks may concur vnto theyme, whose names be here inclosed, and to have in your most gracious memory, the paynfull and-diligent service of my pore servaunte Wharton, and thus, as I am most bounden, shall dispose wt them that be under me f**** annoysaunce of your highnes enemys.» In resentment of this foray, Ruccleuch, with other Border chiefs, assembled an army of 3000 riders, with which they penetrated into Northumberland, and laid waste the country as far as the banks of Bramish. They baffled, or defeated, the English forces opposed to them, and returned loaded with prey.-PINKERTON'S History, vol. II, p. 318.

Note 5. Stanza vii. Bards long shall tell,

How Lord Walter fell.

Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch succeeded to his grandfather, Sir David, in 1492. He was a brave and powerful baron, and warden of the West Marches of Scotland. His death was the consequence of a feud betwixt the Scotts and Kerrs, the history of which is necessary, to explain repeated allusions in the romance. In the year 1526, in the words of Pitscottie, « the Earl of Angus, and the rest of the Douglasses, ruled all which they liked, and no man durst say the contrary; wherefore the king (James V., then a minor) was heavily displeased, and would fain have been out of their hands, if he might by any way: And, to that effect, wrote a quiet and secret letter with his own hand, and sent it to the Laird of Buccleuch, beseeching him that he would come with his kin and friends, and all the force that he might be, and meet him at Melross, at his home-passing, and there to take him out of the Douglasses hands, and to put him to liberty, to use himself among the lave (rest) of his lords, as he thinks expedient.

«This letter was quietly directed, and sent by one of the king's own secret servants, which was received very thankfully by the Laird of Buccleuch, who was very glad thereof, to be put to ́such charges and familiarity with his prince, and did great diligence to perform the

king's writing, and to bring the matter to pass as the king desired: And, to that effect, convened all his kin and friends, and all that would do for him, to ride with him to Melross, when he knew of the king's home-coming. And so he brought with him six hundred spears, of Liddesdale, and Annandale, and countrymen, and clans thereabout, and held themselves quiet while that the king returned out of Jedburgh, and came to Melross, to remain there all that night.

and

<< But when the Lord Hume, Cessford, and Fernyhirst (the chiefs of the clan of Kerr), took their leave of the king, and returned home, then appeared the laird of Buckleuch in sight, and his company with him, in an arrayed battle, intending to have fulfilled the king's petition, and therefore came stoutly forward on the back side of Haliden hill. By that the Earl of Angus, with George Douglas, his brother, and sundry other of his friends, seeing this army coming, they marvelled what the matter meant; while at the last they knew the Laird of Buccleuch, with a certain company of the thieves of Annandale. With him they were less affeared, and made them manfully to the field contrary them, and said to the king in this manner, 'Sir, yon is Buccleuch, and thieves of Annandale with him, to unbeset your grace from the gate (i. e. interrupt your passage). I vow to God they shall either fight or flee; ye shall tarry here on this know, and my brother George with you, with any other company you please; and I shall pass, and put yon thieves off the ground, and rid the gate unto your grace, or else die for it.' The king tarried still, as was devised, and George Douglas with him, and sundry other lords, such as the Earl of Lennox, and the Lord Erskine, and some of the king's own servants; but all the lave (rest) past with the Earl of Angus to the field against the Laird of Buccleuch, who joyned and countered cruelly both the said parties in the field of Darnelinver,' either against other, with uncertain victory. But at the last, the Lord Hume, hearing word of that matter how it stood, returned again to the king in all possible haste, with him the lairds of Cessfoord and Fairnyhirst, to the number of fourscore spears, and set freshly on the lap and wing of the Laird of Buccleuch's field, and shortly bare them backward to the ground; which caused the laird of Buccleuch, and the rest of his friends, to go back and flee, whom they followed and chased; and especially the lairds of Cessfoord and Fairnyhirst followed furiouslie, till at the foot of a path the Laird of Cessfoord was slain by the stroke of a spear by an Elliott, who was then servant to the Laird of Buccleuch. But when the Laird of Cessfoord was slain, the chase ceased. The Earl of Angus returned again with great merriness and victory, and thanked God that he saved him from that chance, and passed with the king to Melross, where they remained all that night. On the morn they passed to Edinburgh with the king, who was very sad and dolorous of the slaughter of the Laird of Cessfoord, and many other gentlemen and yeomen slain by the laird of Buceleuch, containing the number of fourscore and fifteen, which died in defence of the king, and at the command of his writing.».

I am not the first who has attempted to celebrate in verse the renown of this ancient baron, and his ha

1 Darnwick, near Melrose. The place of conflict is still called Skinner's Field, from a corruption of Skirmish Field,

zardous attempt to procure his sovereign's freedom. In a Scottish Latin poet we find the following verses:

VALTERIUS SCOTUS BALCLUCHIUS.

Egregio suscepto facinore, libertate Regis, ac aliis rebus gestis
clarus, sub Jacono V. Ao. Christi, 1526.
Intentata aliis, nullique audita priorum
Audet, nec pavidum morsve, metasve, quatit,
Libertatem aliis soliti transcribere Regis:
Subreptam hanc Regi restituisse paras ;

Si vineis, quanta O succedunt præmia dextræ;
Sin victus, falsas spes jace, pone animam.
Hostica vis nocuit: stant altæ robora mentis

Atque decus. Vincet, Rege probante, fides.
ISSITA queis animis virtus, quosque acrior ardor
Obsidet, obscuris nox premat an tenebris?
Heroes ex omni Historia Scotica lectissimi, Auctore JOHAN
JONSTONIO, Abredonense Scoto, 1603,

In consequence of the battle of Melrose, there ensued a deadly feud betwixt the names of Scott and Kerr, which, in spite of all means used to bring about an agreement, raged for many years upon the Borders. Buccleuch was imprisoned, and his estates forfeited, in the year 1535, for levying war against the Kerrs, and restored by act of parliament, dated 15th March, 1542, during the regency of Mary of Lorraine. But the most signal act of violence, to which this quarrel gave rise, was the murder of Sir Walter himself, who was slain by the Kerrs in the streets of Edinburgh, in 1552. This is the event alluded to in Stanza VII.; and the poem is supposed to open shortly after it had taken place.

The feud between these two families was not reconciled in 1596, when both chieftains paraded the streets of Edinburgh with their followers, and it was expected their first meeting would decide their quarrel. But, on July 14th of the same year, Colvil, in a letter to Mr Bacon, informs him, «that there was great trouble on the Borders, which would continue till order should be taken by the Queen of England and the King, by reason of the two young Scots chieftains, Cessford and Bacclugh, and of the present necessity and scarcity of corn amongst the Scots Borderers and riders. That there had been a private quarrel betwixt these two lairds, on the Borders, which was like to have turned to blood; but the fear of the general trouble had reconciled them, and the injuries which they thought to have committed against each other were now transferred upon England: not unlike that emulation in France between the Baron de Biron and Mons. Jeverie, who, being both ambitious of honour, undertook more hazardous enterprises against the enemy, than they would have done if they had been at concord together.» -BIRCH's Memorials, vol. II, p. 67.

Note 6. Stanza viii.

No! vainly to each holy shrine,

In mutual pilgrimage, they drow. Among other expedients resorted to for staunching the feud betwixt the Scotts and the Kerrs, there was a bond executed, in 1529, between the heads of each clan, binding themselves to perform reciprocally the four principal pilgrimages of Scotland, for the benefit of the souls of those of the opposite name who had fallen in the quarrel. This indenture is printed in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. I. But either it never took effect, or else the feud was renewed shortly afterwards. Such pactions were not uncommon in feudal times;

and, as might be expected, they were often, as in the present case, void of the effect desired. When Sir Walter Mauny, the renowned follower of Edward III., had taken the town of Ryoll, in Gascony, he remembered to have heard that his father lay there buried, and offered a hundred crowns to any who could show him his grave. A very old man appeared before Sir Walter, and informed him of the manner of his father's death, and the place of his sepulture. It seems the Lord of Mauny had, at a great tournament, unhorsed and wounded to the death a Gascon knight, of the house of Mirepoix, whose kinsman was bishop of Cambray. For this deed he was held at feud by the relations of the knight, until he agreed to undertake a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella, for the benefit of the soul of the deceased. But as he returned through the town of Ryoll, after accomplishment of his vow, he was beset, and treacherously slain, by the kindred of the knight whom he had killed. Sir Walter, guided by the old man, visited the lowly tomb of his father, and, having read the inscription, which was in Latin, he caused the body to be raised, and transported to his native city of Valenciennes, where masses were, in the days of Froissart, duly said for the soul of the unfortunate pilgrim.-Cronycle of FROISSART, vol. I, p. 123. Note 7.

Stanza viii.

While Cessford owns the rule of Car.

The family of Ker, Kerr, or Car,' was very powerful on the Border. Fynes Morrison remarks, in his Travels, that their influence extended from the village of Preston-Grange, in Lothian, to the limits of England. Cessford Gastle, the ancient baronial residence of the family, is situated near the village of Morebattle, within two or three miles of the Cheviot Hills.-It has been a place of great strength and consequence, but is now ruinous. Tradition affirms, that it was founded by Halbert, or Habby Kerr, a gigantic warrior, concerning whom many stories are current in Roxburghshire. The Duke of Roxburghe represents Ker of Cessford: a distinct and powerful branch of the same name own the Marquis of Lothian as their chief. Hence the distinction betwixt Kers of Cessford and Fairnihirst.

Note 8. Stanza x.

Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed.

The Cranstouns, Lord Cranstoun, are an ancient Border family, whose chief seat was at Crailing, in Teviotdale. They were at this time at feud with the clan of Scott; for it appears that the lady of Buccleuch, in 1557, beset the laird of Cranstoun, seeking his life. Nevertheless, the same Cranstoun, or perhaps his son, was married to a daughter of the same lady.

Note 9. Stanza xi.

Of Bethune's line of Picardie.

The Bethunes were of French origin, and derived their name from a small town in Artois. There were several distinguished families of the Bethunes in the neighbouring province of Picardy; they numbered among their descendants the celebrated Duc de Sully; and the name was accounted among the most noble in

The name is spelled differently by the various families who bear it. Car is selected, not as the most correct, but as the most poetical reading.

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