The heads of not a few Scotchmen were spiked on the gates of Carlisle, and some romantic stories have come down to us respecting them. One of these we related in our "Bygone England," and to make this account more complete we may perhaps be permitted to reproduce it. "A young and beautiful lady," so runs the tale, "came every morning at sunrise, and every evening at sunset, to look at the head of a comely youth with long yellow hair, till at length the lady and the laddie's head disappeared." The incident is the subject of a song, in which the lovesick damsel bewails the fate of her lover. Here are two of the verses:-- "White was the rose in my lover's hat As he rowled me in his lowland plaidie; His heart was true as death in love, His head was aye in battle ready. His long, long hair, in yellow hanks, Wav'd o'er his cheeks sae sweet and ruddy; But now it waves o'er Carlisle yetts In dripping ringlets, soil'd and bloody." Many persons in Hull supported the lost cause of Henry VI., but the governing authorities of the town gave their support to Edward IV., and those that were on the side of the fallen king met with little mercy at the hands of the local Aldermen. Mr. T. Tindall Wildridge, who has done so much to bring to light hidden facts in the history of Hull, tells us that the Aldermen in 1461 agreed that the head of Nicholas Bradshawe, for his violent language, be set at the Beverley Gate--the gate that was at a later period closed against Charles I., when he desired to enter Hull. A number of the inhabitants who would not renounce their allegiance to the House of Lancaster were ordered to leave the town on pain of death. "Among these outcasts," says Mr. Wildridge, "was a women, who, coming back again, was subjected to the indignity of the thewes (tumbrel or hand-barrow, in which scolds were customarily wheeled round the town previous to being ducked); she was thus led out of the Beverley Gate." On the walls and gates of York have been spiked many heads, and with particulars of a few of the more important we will bring to a close our gleanings on this gruesome theme, though not one without value to the student of history.