Then Hobie has sworn a fu' great aith-- 125 By the day that he was gotten or born, He never had onything o' my lord's, That either eat him grass or corn. "Now fare thee weel, sweet Mangerton![L129] For I think again I'll ne'er thee see: 130 I wad betray nae lad alive, For a' the goud in Christentie. "And fare thee weel, now Liddisdale, Baith the hie land and the law! Keep ye weel frae traitor Mains! 135 For goud and gear he'll sell ye a'. "I'd rather be ca'd Hobie Noble, In Carlisle, where he suffers for his faut, Before I were ca'd traitor Mains, That eats and drinks of meal and maut." 140 13. Kershope-burn, where Hobbie met his treacherous companions, falls into the Liddel, from the English side, at a place called Turnersholm, where, according to tradition, tourneys and games of chivalry were often solemnized.--S. 15. The Mains was anciently a Border-keep, near Castletown, on the north side of the Liddel, but is now totally demolished.--S. 38. For twa drifts of his sheep I gat.--P. M. 39. Whitfield is explained by Mr. Ellis of Otterbourne to be a large and rather wild manorial district in the extreme southwest part of Northumberland; the proprietor of which might be naturally called the Lord, though not _Earl_ of Whitfield. I suspect, however, that the reciters may have corrupted the _great_ Ralph Whitfield into Earl of Whitfield. Sir Matthew Whitfield of Whitfield, was Sheriff of Northumberland in 1433, and the estate continued in the family from the reign of Richard II. till about fifty years since.--S. 54. Askerton is an old castle, now ruinous, situated in the wilds of Cumberland, about seventeen miles north-east of Carlisle, amidst that mountainous and desolate tract of country bordering upon Liddesdale, emphatically termed the Waste of Bewcastle.--S. 63-67. Willeva and Speir Edom are small districts in Bewcastledale, through which also the Hartlie-burn takes its course. Conscouthart-Green, and Rodrie-haugh, and the Foulbogshiel, are the names of places in the same wilds, through which the Scottish plunderers generally made their raids upon England.--S. 79, 87. clock. 105. A street in Carlisle. 129. Of the Castle of Mangertoun, so often mentioned in these ballads, there are very few vestiges. It was situated on the banks of the Liddell, below Castletoun.--S. JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD. From _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, ii. 3.