The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

by Unknown

5³. s....d, illegible.

7¹. Perhaps Swinburin.

9³. gang has been changed to hang, or hang to gang: neither is quite intelligible.

1, 2, 3 are in the MS. 2, 3, 1.

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ARCHIE O CAWFIELD

A. ‘Archie of the Cawfield,’ communicated to Percy by Miss Fisher of Carlisle, 1780.

B. a. ‘Archie of Cafield,’[^[323]] Glenriddell MSS, XI, 14, 1791; Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1802, I, 177. b. ‘Archie of Ca’field,’ Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1833, II, 116.

C. ‘The Three Brothers,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 111.

D. ‘Billie Archie,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 467, communicated by Buchan, and by him derived from James Nicol of Strichen; Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 335.

E. Macmath MS., p. 76, fragments.