‘Culertun,’ 10.1, is Chollerton on the Tyne. Percy suggests Challerton, and in the ballads upon which Scott founded his version the name is ‘Choler-ford.’ ‘Howbrame wood’ and ‘Lord Clough’ are not identified; and Flanders files, effective as they appear to be, are not otherwise known.
‘The ballad,’ says Professor Child, ‘is one of the best in the world, and enough to make a horse-trooper of any young borderer, had he lacked the impulse.’
[5.] Child, No. 189, from Caw’s Poetical Museum, but not of sufficient merit to be included here.
JOHN O’ THE SIDE
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Peter o’ Whifield he hath slain,
And John o’ Side, he is ta’en,
And John is bound both hand and foot,
And to the New-castle he is gone.
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