[41]. Cholerford is a ford on the Tyne, above Hexham.—S.
[129]. The land-sergeant (mentioned also in Hobbie Noble) was an officer under the warden, to whom was committed the apprehending of delinquents, and the care of the public peace.—S.
ARCHIE OF CA'FIELD.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ii. 116.
This is substantially the same story as [Jock o' the Side]. [Another version from Motherwell's collection], is subjoined.
"Ca'field, or Calfield," says Scott, "is a place in Wauchopdale, belonging of old to the Armstrongs. In the account betwixt the English and Scottish Marches, Jock and Geordie of Ca'field, then called Calf-hill, are repeatedly marked as delinquents. History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, vol. i. Introduction, p. 33."
As I was a-walking mine alane,
It was by the dawning of the day,
I heard twa brithers make their mane,
And I listen'd weel to what they did say.
The youngest to the eldest said,5
"Blythe and merrie how can we be?
There were three brithren of us born,
And ane of us is condemn'd to die."