P, 351 b, 12. See an account of the exhumation of a corpse wrapped in a hide without a covering of lead, in Archæologia, I, 34. (G. L. K.)
169. Johnie Armstrong.
P. 367, note †. A new-born child thrown into the water by its mother tells her that she has lost Paradise: ‘L’Enfant noyé,’ La Tradition, V, 116.
172. Musselburgh Field.
P. 378. Is this the song quoted by Sir Toby in Twelfth Night, II, 3 (and hitherto unidentified), “O, the twelfth day of December”? (G. L. K.)
173. Mary Hamilton.
Pp. 379–97. I a was first printed in the second edition of the Minstrelsy, 1803, II, 163. (Read in 12, on her; in 32, hand.) The copy principally used was one furnished by Sharpe, which was not A a, and has not so far been recovered. Besides this, “copies from various quarters” were resorted to. (Half a dozen stanzas are found in G, but G itself is very likely a compilation). Eight copies from Abbotsford are now printed for the first time. Two of these may have been in Scott’s hands in time to be used, two were certainly not, and for the others we have no date.
There is only one novel feature in all these copies: in U 13 Mary’s paramour is a pottinger. The remark that there is no trace of an admixture of the Russian story with that of the apothecary, page 383, must therefore be withdrawn.[[151]] Mary in this version, as in E, F, Q, T, U, V, Y, is daughter of the Duke of York.
X, like E, F, has borrowed from No 95: see 13–15.