467,
1905. They publish this Elliot version only. The version has modern
spelling. On this version and its minor variations from Scott's, I say
more later; Colonel Elliot gives no critical examination of the
variations which seem to me essential.
{99a} F. E. B. B., p. 184.
{101a} Robert Scott (the poet Satchells's father) "had Southinrigg for
his service" to Buccleuch, says Sir William Fraser, in his Memoirs of
the House of Buccleuch. (See Satchells, 1892, pp. vii., viii.) But
the "fathers" of Satchells "having dilapidate and engaged their Estate
by Cautionary," poor Satchells was brought up as a cowherd, till he
went to the wars, and never learned to write, or even, it seems, to
read; as he says in the Dedication of his book to Lord Yester.
{102a} The Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads, opp. p. 36.
{103a} Border Papers, vol. i. pp. 120-127.
{104a} Border Papers, vol. i. p. 106.
{106a} Scrope, in Border Papers, vol. ii. pp. 148-152.
{106b} Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 307, No. 606.
{107a} Border Papers, vol.
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