33^2. Soudonie _for_ Soldanie. 33^3, 65^3. tyne _for_ loss. 38^3. Tell _for_ Till. 40^4. Mosaldale _for_ Moffat-dale. 43^2. ane _for_ a. 45^2. he _for_ ye. 48^2. work _for_ worse, _wrongly_. 50^4. syne _for_ then. 51^1, 55^1, 58^1. Penman score, _wrongly_. 52^1, 56^1. refuse _for_ refuses. 56^2. frae _for_ from. 65^1. Thir _for_ the. 73^2. With his _for_ With the, _wrongly_. =B.= _The division of stanzas has been rearranged._ 5^2. “Reciters,” _says Scott_, “sometimes call the messenger the laird of Skene.” 21==8. 21^3. the _wanting_. 21^4. in the. 22==9. 22^4. land. 24==11. 24^4. come to. 35^3. Carhead. 50, 54. _Passing over the king’s taking off his cap to an outlaw, which is monstrously_ ‘beneath his state and his dignitie,’ _I can make nothing of the line which succeeds in each of these stanzas_. 52^1. score _for_ core. =C.= 14. _Displaced. James Boyd should of course come in before James Pringle._ FOOTNOTES: [103] That the four copies of =a= are transcripts from writing, and not from oral recitation, will be obvious when we observe their correspondence. The first thirty stanzas of =a=, =b=, have the same lines in the same order, and with an approach to verbal agreement. There is not so close a concurrence after 30, but still a virtual concurrence, excepting that =b= inserts sixteen lines between 52 and 53 which the other copies lack. =c= has throughout the same lines as =a=, in the same order (with verbal differences), excepting that =c= introduces two lines after 50^4 (which are a repetition, with corruption, of 8^{1,2}), and that =a= repeats 43 at 60, which =c= does not. =d= has only a few verbal variations from =c=. [104] Plummer’s letter follows the ballad in the second volume, but is not given in the first. [105] Rather 1708. Sir James Murray was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session October 28, 1689, and took his seat as Lord Philiphaugh November 1. In 1702 he was appointed Lord Clerk Register, and this place he held, except a short interval, till his death, July 1, 1708. (T. Craig-Brown, History of Selkirkshire, II, 345 f.) [106] I mean Soldan Turk, =c= 22^3, for Soudron, =a=, =b=, =d=, and Soldanie, =c= 33^2, for Soudronie, Southronie, =a=, =b=. (Soudan Turk, also =B= 26^3, Souden Turk, =C= 3^3, 5^3.) Nothing is easier than the corruption of Soudron into Soudan, upon which change the addition of Turk would be all but inevitable. The corruption would be likely to be made by one who had heard of an irruption of Saracens (or, if you please, Moors) into Galloway. (See note, p. 190.) The winning of Ettrick Forest by and from the Southron is historical, and this pretends to be an historical poem.