With regard to the localities in #A#, Percy notes that Pickeram Side is in Northumbria, and that there is a Cockley Tower in Erringside, near Brady’s Cragg, and a Brady’s Cragg near Chollerford Bridge. There is a Cockley, _alias_ Cocklaw, in Erringside, near Chollerton, in the south division of Tynedale Ward, parish of St John Lee. The Erring is a small stream which enters the Tyne between Chollerton and Chollerford. Again, Cocklaw Walls appears in the map of the Ordnance Survey, a little to the north and east of Cockley in Erringside, and Cocklaw Walls may represent the Cockley’s Well of the ballad. (Percy notes that Cockley’s Well is said to be near Bewcastle, Cumberland.) I have not found Brady’s Cragg or Pickeram Side in the Ordnance Survey maps, nor indeed any of the compounds of Braidy or Braid anywhere. There is a Braid a little to the south of Edinburgh, Braid Hills and Braid Burn; and Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. 17, says that there is tradition for this region having been the hunting-ground. Scott’s copy, #F#, lays the scene in Dumfriesshire, and there is other tradition to the same effect.[3] Percy was struck with the occurrence of the wolf in #A# 17, found also in #B# 10, #C# 5. He considered, no doubt, that the mention of the wolf was a token of the high antiquity of the ballad. “Wolues that wyryeth men, wommen and children” are spoken of in Piers Plowman, #C#, Passus, X, v. 226, Skeat, 1886, I, 240, and the #C# text is assigned to about 1393. Holinshed (1577), I, 378, says that though the island is void of wolves south of the Tweed, yet the Scots cannot boast the like, since they have grievous wolves. #F# is translated by Schubart, p. 187; Wolff, Halle der Völker, I, 41, Hausschatz, p. 224; Doenniges, p. 10; Gerhard, p. 51; R. von Bismarck, Deutsches Museum, 1858, I, 897; Cesare Cantù, Documenti alla Storia Universale, V, 806; in Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1838, p. 127 b; by Loève-Veimars, p. 296. Grundtvig, p. 269, No 41, translates a compound of #F#, #I#, #E# (Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 36), and #B#; Knortz, Schottische Balladen, No 18, a mixture of #F# and others. A Communicated to Percy by Miss Fisher, of Carlisle, 1780, No 5 of MS. 1 Johny he has risen up i the morn, Calls for water to wash his hands; But little knew he that his bloody hounds Were bound in iron bands. bands Were bound in iron bands 2 Johny’s mother has gotten word o that, And care-bed she has taen: ‘O Johny, for my benison, I beg you’l stay at hame; For the wine so red, and the well baken bread, My Johny shall want nane. 3 ‘There are seven forsters at Pickeram Side, At Pickeram where they dwell, And for a drop of thy heart’s bluid They wad ride the fords of hell.’ 4 Johny he’s gotten word of that, And he’s turnd wondrous keen; He’s put off the red scarlett, And he’s put on the Lincolm green.