[4]. Haribee is the place of execution at Carlisle.—S.
[13]. The Liddel-rack is a ford on the Liddel.—S.
[76]. A house on the Border, belonging to Buccleuch.—S.
[102]. Eden has been substituted for Eske, the latter name being inconsistent with geography.—S.
[124]. The name of a Border tune.—S.
DICK O' THE COW.
From Caw's Poetical Museum, p. 22.
The personage from whom this ballad is named was jester to Lord Scroop, who was warden of the West Marches of England from 1590 to 1603. The Laird's Jock, that is John, the son of the Laird of Mangerton, "appears as one of the men of name in Liddesdale, in the list of the Border Clans, 1597."
Dick o' the Cow is closely connected with [Jock o' the Side] and [Hobie Noble], which follow shortly after. All three were first printed in Caw's Museum, and seem to have been contributed by a Mr. Elliot, a Liddesdale gentleman, to whom Sir W. Scott acknowledges many obligations. We are told that both Dick o' the Cow and Jock o' the Side were until lately so popular in Liddesdale with all classes of people, that they were invariably sung, from beginning to end, at every festive meeting.