And Burgh under Stanemuir there dwels Dickie.
SIR HUGH IN THE GRIME’S DOWNFALL
The Text given here is comparatively a late one, from the Roxburghe collection (iii. 456). An earlier broadside, in the same and other collections, gives a longer but curiously corrupted version, exhibiting such perversions as ‘Screw’ for ‘Scroop,’ and ‘Garlard’ for ‘Carlisle.’
The Story in its full form relates that Sir Hugh in the Grime (Hughie Graeme or Graham) stole a mare from the Bishop of Carlisle, by way of retaliation for the Bishop’s seduction of his wife. He was pursued by Lord Scroop, taken, and conveyed to Carlisle and hanged.
Scott suggested that Hugh Graham may have been one of four hundred Borderers accused to the Bishop of Carlisle of various murders and thefts about 1548.
SIR HUGH IN THE GRIME’S DOWNFALL
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Good Lord John is a hunting gone,
Over the hills and dales so far,