Child, part vi. p. 513. Child, part x. p. 294. Hogg to Scott, 30th June 1802, given later in full. See De Origine, Moribus, et Rebus Gestis Scotorum, p. 60 (1578). Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 60 (1839). Lockhart, vol. ii. pp. 130–135 (1839). Minstrelsy, iii. 186–198. Child, part ix., 187. Further Essays, p. 184. Child, vol. i. p. xxx. Minstrelsy, 2nd edition, vol iii. (1803). Further Essays, pp. 247, 248. Carruthers, “Abbotsford Notanda,” in R. Chambers’s Life of Scott, pp. 115–117 (1891). Ibid., p. 118. Carruthers, “Abbotsford Notanda,” in R. Chambers’s Life of Scott, pp. 115–117 (1891). Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 99. Lockhart, Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., vol. ii. pp. 99, 100 (1829). 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. Carruthers, pp. 128, 131. Sweet William’s Ghost. Further Essays, pp. 225, 226. Further Essays, pp. 227–234. Minstrelsy, vol. iii. pp. 307–310 (1833). Ibid., vol. iii. p. 314. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, xxi. 4, pp. 804–806. Further Essays, p. 237. Carruthers, p. 128. Lockhart, vol. ii. pp. 67, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 79. Craig Brown, History of Selkirkshire. Child, part ix. p. 185. Scott to Laidlaw, 21st January 1803; Carruthers, pp. 121, 122. Further Essays, p. 45. Child, part viii. pp. 499–502. Further Essays, p. 10, where only two references to sources are given. Child, part vi. p. 292. Ibid., part ix. p. 243. Herd, 1776; also C. K. Sharpe’s MS. Bain, Calendar, vol. iv. pp. 87–93. 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. Further Essays, pp. 12–27. Further Essays, p. 37. Scott to Laidlaw, Carruthers, p. 129. English version, xi.–xv. Further Essays, p. 58. Further Essays, p. 31. Godscroft, ed. 1644, p. 100; Child, part vi. p. 295. The Hunting of the Cheviot, and Herd’s Otterburn. Herd, and Complaynte of Scotland, 1549. Child, part ix. p. 244, stanza xiii. Further Essays, p. 27. 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. F. E. B. B., p. 199. F. E. B. B., p. 200. Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads, p. vi. Satchells, pp. 13, 14. Edition of 1892. Ibid., p. 14. Ibid., part ii. pp. 35, 36. F. E. B. B., p. 200. Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part viii. p. 518. He refers to “Letters I. No. 44” in MS. 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. F. E. B. B., p. 184. 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. The Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads, opp. p. 36. Border Papers, vol. i. pp. 120–127. Border Papers, vol. i. p. 106. Scrope, in Border Papers, vol. ii. pp. 148–152. Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 307, No. 606. Border Papers, vol. ii. pp. 299–303 Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 356. F. E. B. B., p. 161. See his Border Minstrelsy, vol. ii. p. 15. F. E. B. B., p. 156. T. B. B., p. 14. T. B. B., p. 12. T. B. B., p. 12. Memoirs of Robert Carey, p. 98, 1808. T. B. B., pp. 19, 20. T. B. B., p. 20. Child, part vii. p. 5. 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. F. E. B. B., pp. 179–185. Child, part viii. p. 518. 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. Minstrelsy, vol. iii. p. 76, 1803. Further Essays, p. 112. Further Essays, p. 112. In Minstrelsy, vol. ii. p. 35 (1833). Further Essays, p. 124. Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 367. Further Essays, pp. 123, 124. Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 121. Further Essays, p. 125. Birrell’s Diary vouches for the irons. Further Essays, p. 128. Sargent and Kittredge, pp. xxix., xxx. Hales and Furnivall, ii. pp. 205–207. Further Essays, p. 45. Ballads, p. xxix.
