The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

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[152]. Compare here ‘Adam Bell,’ V, 28, stanzas 125, 128.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Page	Changed from	Changed to
[49]	Motherwelll’s MS.	Motherwell’s MS.
[77]	21. wi birk and brume.	Note: The ‘i’ in “birk” appears to have a ring instead of a dot.
[90]	O. ‘Lord Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. v, the last three stanzas. N. ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, IX, one stanza.	“N. ‘Lord Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. v, the last three stanzas. O. ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, IX, one stanza.

1. Except as noted, all spelling errors were left uncorrected.
2. All punctuation was left uncorrected, except as follows.
3. A beginning or ending quote mark was added for obviously unbalanced pairs of quotes.
4. Full stops and commas were made consistent for the verse & line references, for example, “12¹,” was corrected to “12¹.”
5. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.