I. b. The three stanzas were given as written down from memory by Finlay: see VIII, 507 b.
174. Earl Bothwell.
The following entry in the Stationers’ Registers may refer to this ballad: “24 March, 1579, Thomas Gosson. Receaved of him for a ballad concerninge the murder of the late Kinge of Scottes.” Arber, II, 349.
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon.
P. 423, IV, 513.
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From “The Old Lady’s Collection,” No 28, ‘Edom of Achendoon.’
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It fell about the Martimas time,
Fan the wind blue loud an calld,