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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

"Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy"

I shall next show that the Elliot
version is probably later than the Scott version. Finally, I shall
make it certain (or so it seems to me) that Scott worked on an old copy
which was NOT the copy that belonged to Kirkpatrick Sharpe, but
contained points of difference, NOT those inserted by Sir Walter Scott
about "Dinlay snaw," and so forth.

IV--WHO WAS THE FARMER IN THE DODHEAD IN 1580-1609?

Colonel Elliot has made no attempt to prove that one Telfer was tenant
of the Dodhead in 1580-1603, which must, we shall see, include the
years in which the alleged incidents occur. On this question--was
there a Telfer in the Dodhead in 1580-1603?--I consulted my friend, Mr.
T. Craig Brown, author of an excellent History of Selkirkshire. In
that work (vol. i. p. 356) the author writes: "Dodhead or Scotsbank;
Dodhead was one of the four stedes of Redefurd in 1455. In 1609 Robert
Scot of Satchells (ancestor of the poet-captain) obtained a Crown
charter of the lands of Dodbank." For the statement that Dodhead was
one of the three stedes in 1455, Mr.


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