[24]. heart, pronounced hearrut.
[90]. Then.
[97]. Qy. wight yemen?
WILLIE MACKINTOSH, OR, THE BURNING OF AUCHINDOWN.
These fragments appear to relate to the burning of Auchindown, a castle belonging to the Gordons, in vengeance for the death of William Mackintosh of the clan Chattan, which is said to have occurred at the castle of the Earl of Huntly. The event is placed in the year 1592. After the Mackintoshes had executed their revenge, they were pursued by the Gordons, and overtaken in the Stapler, where "sixty of the clan Chattan were killed, and Willie Mackintosh,
their leader, wounded." So says the not very trustworthy editor of the Thistle of Scotland.
Another fragment of four stanzas (containing nothing additional), is given by Whitelaw, Book of Scottish Ballads, p. 248.
I.
From Finlay's Scottish Ballads, ii. 97.
As I came in by Fiddich-side,
In a May morning,
I met Willie Mackintosh
An hour before the dawning.