I wyte a light laugh then gae she;

‘If ye’re to hang them ane and a’,

I fear ye will begin wi me.

19

‘Did I not steal your ain hand write?

Did I not steal your right glove tee?

Then sent the jailors strict command

To loose an’ set young Logie free.’

190. Jamie Telfer.

P. 5 a first paragraph. However, “in the list of Border thieves made in the year 1552, William Patrick, the priest, and John Nelson, the curate of Bewcastle, are both included”: Denham Tracts, I, 150. This shows that the society was homogeneous.