Colonel Elliot calls this "a really
preposterously cool suggestion." {111a} Why "really preposterously
cool"? Being sought, the place is found where it had always been.
Jamie Telfer found it, and in it his friend "William's Wat," who took
him to the laird of Buccleuch at Branksome.
In the Elliot version, when refused aid by Buccleuch, Jamie ran to
Coultartcleugh,--as in Scott's,--on his way to Martin Elliot at
Preakinhaugh on the Liddel. Jamie next "takes the fray" to "the
Catlockhill," and is there remounted by "Martin's Hab," an Elliot (not
by William's Wat), and THEY "take the fray" to Martin Elliot at
Preakinhaugh in Liddesdale. This is very well, but where IS this
"Catlockhill" in Liddesdale? Is it even a real place?
Colonel Elliot has found no such place; nor can I find it in the
Registrum Magni Sigilli, nor in Blaeu's map of 1600-54.
Colonel Elliot's argument has been that the Elliot version, the version
of the Sharpe MS., is the earlier, for, among other reasons, its
topography is correct. {112a} It makes Telfer run from Dodhead to
Branksome for aid, because that was the comparatively near residence of
the powerful Buccleuch.
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