[91b] F. E. B. B., p. 200.
[93a] Trustworthiness of the Border Ballads, p. vi.
[95a] Satchells, pp. 13, 14. Edition of 1892.
[95b] Ibid., p. 14.
[95c] Ibid., part ii. pp. 35, 36.
[97a] F. E. B. B., p. 200.
[98a] Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part viii. p. 518. He refers to “Letters I. No. 44” in MS.
[98b] See Sargent and Kittredge’s reduced edition of Child, p. 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.