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ly, and exclaimed, 'Ah hah, Will o' Moffat, you strike sair!' (viz. sore.) After it had staid there long, one evening, when the women were milking the cows in the loan, it was playing among the children near by them, when suddenly they heard a loud shrill voice cry, three times, Gilpin Horner! It started, and said That is me I must away;' and instantly disappeared, and was never heard of more. Old Anderson did not remember it, but said, he had often heard his father, and other old men in the place, who were there at the time, speak about it; and in my younger years, I have often heard it mentioned, and never met with any who had the remotest doubt as to the truth of the story; although I must own, 【 cannot help thinking there must be some misrepresentation in it." To this account I have to add the following particulars, from the most respectable authority. Besides constantly repeating the word tint! tint! Gilpin Horner was often heard to call upon Peter Bertram, or Be-te-ram, as he pronounced the word; and when the shrill voice called Gilpin Horner, he immediately acknowledged it as the summons of the said Peter Bertram, who seems, therefore, to have been the devil, who had tint, or lost, the little imp.

But the lady of Branksome gathered a band
Of the best that would ride at her command.
Verse 33, p. 51.

"Upon 25th June, 1557, Dame Janet Beatoune, ladye Buccleuch, and a great number of the name of Scott, delaitit (accused) for coming to the kirk of St. Mary of the Lowes, to the number of two hundred persons, bodin in feir of weire (arranged in armour,) and breaking open the doors of the said kirk, in order to apprehend the laird of Cranstoune for his destruction." On the 20th July, a warrant from the queen is presented, discharging the justice to proceed against the ladye Buccleuch while new calling. Abridgment of Books of Adjournal in Advocates' Library. The following proceedings upon this case appear on the record of the court of Justiciary: On the 25th of June, 1557, Robert Scott, in Bowhill parish, priest of the kirk of St. Mary's, accused of the convocation of the queen's lieges, to the number of 200 persons, in warlike array, with jacks, helmets, and other weapons, and marching to the chapel of St. Mary of the Lowes, for the slaughter of Sir Peter Cranstoun, out of ancient feud and malice prepense, and of breaking the doors of the said kirk, is repledged by the archbishop of Glasgow. The bail given by Robert Scott of Allanhaugh, Adam Scott of Burnefute, Robert Scott, in Howfurde, Walter Scott in

Todshawhaugh, Walter Scott younger of Synton, Thomas Scott of Hynyng, Robert Scott, William Scott, and James Scott, brothers of the said Walter Scott, Walter Scott in the Woll, and Walter Scott, son of William Scott of Harden, and James Wemys in Eckford, all accused of the same crime, is declared to be forfeited. On the same day, Walter Scott of Synton, and Walter Chisholme, of Chisholme, and William Scott of Harden, became bound, jointly, and severally, that Sir Peter Cranstoun, and his kindred and servants, should receive no injury from them in future. At the same time, Patrick Murray of Fallohill, Alexander Stuart, uncle to the laird of Trackwhare, John Murray of Newhall, John Fairlye, residing in Selkirk, George Tait younger of Pirn, John Pennycuke of Pennycuke, James Ramsay of Cokpen, the laird of Fassyde, and the laird of Henderstoune, were all severally fined for not attending as jurors. Upon the 20th of July following, Scott of Synton, Chisholme of Chisholme, Scott of Harden, Scott of Howpaslie, Scott of Burnfute, with many others, are ordered to appear at next calling, under the pains of treason. But no farther procedure seems to have taken place. It is said, that, upon this rising, the kirk of St. Mary was burned by the Scotts.

NOTES.

ON

CANTO THIRD.

When, dancing in the sunny beam,

He marked the crane on the baron's crest.

Verse 4, p. 55.

The crest of the Cranstouns, in allusion to their name, is a crane dormant, holding a stone in his foot, with an emphatic Border motto, Thou shall want ere I want.

Much he marvelled a knight of pride,
Like a book-bosomed priest should ride.

Verse 8, p. 58.

"At Unthank, two miles N. E. from the church (of Ewes,) there are the ruins of a chapple for divine service, in time of popery. There is a tradition, that friars were wont to come from Mellrose, or Jedburgh, to baptize and marry in this parish;

and, from being in use to carry the mass-book in their bosomes, they were called by the inhabitants Book-a-bosomes. There is a man yet alive, who knew old men who had been baptized by these Booka-bosoms, and who says one of them, called Hair, used this parish for a very long time."-Account of the Parish of Ewes, apud Macfarlane's MSS.

It had much of glamour might.-Ver, 9, p. 59. Glamour, in the legends of Scottish superstition, means the magic power of imposing on the eye-sight of spectators, so that the appearance of an object shall be totally different from the reality. To such a charm the ballad of Johnie Fa' imputes the fascination of the lovely countess, who eloped with that Bypsey leader.

Sae soon as they saw her weel far'd face
They cast the glamour ower her.

It was formerly used even in war. In 1381, when the duke of Anjou lay before a strong castle, upon the coast of Naples, a necromancer offered to "make the ayre so thycke that they within shal thynke that that there is a great bridge on the see (by which the castle was surrounded,) for ten men to go afront; and whan they within the castell se this bridge, they

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