Haribee = _the gallows hill at Carlisle_ reiver = _a border thief_, one of a class which lived sparely, fought stoutly, entertained the strictest sense of honour and justice, went ever on horseback, and carried the art of cattle-lifting to the highest possible point of perfection (_National Observer, 30th May, 1891_) yett = _gate_ lawing = _reckoning_ basnet = _helmet_ curch = _coif or cap_ lightly = _to scorn_ in a lowe = _on fire_ slocken = _to slake_ splent = _shoulder-piece_ spauld = _shoulder_ broken men = _outlaws_ marshal men = _officers of law_ rank reiver = _common thief_ herry = _harry_ corbie = _crow_ lear = _learning_ row-footed = _rough-shod_ spait = _flood_ garred = _made_ slogan = _battle-cry_ stear = _stir_ saft = _light_ fleyed = _frightened_ bairns = _children_ spier = _ask_ hente = _lifted_, _haled_ maill = _rent_ furs = _furrows_ trew = _trust_ Christentie = _Christendom_ XXX Communicated by Mr. Hunt,--who dates it about 1626--from Seyer's _Memoirs, Historical and Topographical, of Bristol and its Neighbourhood_ (1821-23). The full title is _The Honour of Bristol: shewing how the Angel Gabriel of Bristol fought with three ships, who boarded as many times, wherein we cleared our decks and killed five hundred of their men, and wounded many more, and made them fly into Cales, when we lost but three men, to the Honour of the Angel Gabriel of Bristol_. To the tune _Our Noble King in his Progress_. Cales (13), pronounced as a dissyllable, is of course Cadiz. It is fair to add that this spirited and amusing piece of doggerel has been severely edited. XXXI From the _Minstrelsy_, where it is 'given, without alteration or improvement, from the most accurate copy that could be recovered.' The story runs that Helen Irving (or Helen Bell), of Kirkconnell in Dumfriesshire, was beloved by Adam Fleming, and (as some say) Bell of Blacket House; that she favoured the first but her people encouraged the second; that she was thus constrained to tryst with Fleming by night in the churchyard, 'a romantic spot, almost surrounded by the river Kirtle'; that they were here surprised by the rejected suitor, who fired at his rival from the far bank of the stream; that Helen, seeking to shield her lover, was shot in his stead; and that Fleming, either there and then, or afterwards in Spain, avenged her death on the body of her slayer. Wordsworth has told the story in a copy of verses which shows, like so much more of his work, how dreary a poetaster he could be. XXXII This epic-in-little, as tremendous an invention as exists in verse, is from the _Minstrelsy_: 'as written down from tradition by a lady' (C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe).