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1. See article on "Waits' Badges," by Llewellyn Jewitt, in Reliquary, vol. xii. p. 145.

2. Chant of Richard Sheale, Brydges' British Bibliographer, vol. iv. p. 100.

3. Ellis's Original Letters, Second Series, vol. iii. p. 49.

4. See Percy's remarks on this line at p. 379 (note).

5. Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, ed. 1829, vol. i. p. xxvi.

6. Marjoreybank's Annals of Scotland, Edinb. 1814, p. 5, quoted in Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. xxx. (note).

7. Motherwell's Minstrelsy, 1827, p. xlvii.

8. Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. xv.

9. See below. p. 148.

10. Vol. ii. p. 172.

11. Vol. iii. bk. ii. art. 18.

12. Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. xiii.

13. See below, p. 380.

14. See below, p. 70.

15. See below, p. 23.

16. See vol. ii. p. 158.

17. Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, ed. 1829, vol. i. p. xxxiii.

18. See below, p. 378.

19. Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. i. p. 106.

20. Pierce Penilesse, his Supplication to the Devill, 1592.

21. Kemp's Nine Daies' Wonder, 1600, sign. d 3.

22. Dryden's Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.

23. Richard of Almaigne, see vol. ii. p. 3.

24. Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. v. p. 524.

25. See Ancient Scottish Poems, 1786, vol. i. p. cxxxi.

26. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, 1827, p. xcvii.

27. Scottish Ballads, vol. i. p. 46.

28. Mr. Laing, with his usual kindness, has been so good as to answer my inquiry whether he still held the opinion he published in 1839. He writes (June 2, 1876): "I still adhere to the general inference that this ballad is comparatively a modern imitation, and although we have no positive evidence as to the authorship, I can think of no one that was so likely to have written it as Elizabeth Halket, Lady Wardlaw of Pitreavie, who died in 1727, aged fifty. Had Bishop Percy's correspondence with Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, been preserved, some interesting information would no doubt have been obtained regarding these ballads sent from Scotland."

29. Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads (Percy Society, vol. xvii. p. xi.).

30. Neither of these lines occur in Percy's version, but they are both in the one printed by Scott.

31. Ballads from Scottish History, 1863, pp. 223–4.

32. "An ingenious friend thinks the author of Hardyknute has borrowed several expressions and sentiments from the foregoing and other old Scottish songs in this collection."

33. See vol. ii. p. 105, of the present edition.

34. It has been necessary in the foregoing remarks to give reasons why the opinions of the late Dr. Robert Chambers on this subject are not to be taken on trust, but it is hoped that these criticisms will not be understood as written with any wish to detract from the literary character of one who did so much good work during a laborious and ever active life.

35. Minstrelsy, p. xlvi.

36. Parliament of Love.

37. Queen of Corinth.

38. Dekker's Honest W., 1604, act i. sc. 1.

39. Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

40. The following is a list of these ballads:—

Vol. I. "Fair Rosamond and King Henry II.," "Queen Eleanor's Confession," "St. George and the Dragon," "The Dragon of Wantley," "Chevy Chace," "The Lamentation of Jane Shore," "Sir Andrew Barton's Death," "Prince of England's Courtship to the King of France's Daughter," "The Lady turn'd Serving-Man," "The Children in the Wood," "The Bride's Burial," "The Lady's Fall," "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor," "Gilderoy."

Vol. II. "King Leir and his Three Daughters," "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table," "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury," "The Wanton Wife of Bath," "The Spanish Lady's Love," "The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green."

Vol. III. "The Baffled Knight," "William and Margaret," "The Gaberlunzie Man."

41. Percy communicated to Dr. Nash, for the History of Worcestershire (vol. ii. p. 318), a pedigree in which he attempted to identify his family with that of the descendants of Ralph, third Earl of Northumberland. Nash subjoined a note to the effect that he had examined the proofs of all the particulars above mentioned, and Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, expressed the opinion that, "both as a lawyer accustomed to the consideration of evidence, and as a genealogist versed in the study of pedigrees," he was fully satisfied. Mr. Furnivall is rather unjust to Percy when he suggests that the pedigree was treated like the ballads, and the gaps filled up, for the cases are not quite analogous. The pedigree may not be of greater authenticity than many other doubtful ones, but at all events his Patrons the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland acknowledged the connection between them when he was in some way distinguished.

42. On Percy's tomb his wife's name is spelt Goodriche.

43. Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland, 1853, p. 29.

44. Stenhouse's Illustrations, p. 112.

45. Bishop Percy's Folio MS. vol. i. p. xli. (note).

46. The book was reprinted entire in the fourth volume of the Antiquarian Repertory, 1809; and a second edition was published by Pickering in 1827.

47. In 1810 he was the only survivor of the original members of the Literary Club, founded by Johnson and Reynolds in 1764.

48. Percy Folio MS., vol. i. p. lv.

49. The chief particulars of the above sketch of Percy's life are taken from the interesting life by the Rev. J. Pickford in Hales and Furnivall's edition of the Folio MS., vol. i. p. xxvii.

50. Ancient Songs, 1790, p. xix.

51. Bishop Percy Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances. Edited by John W. Hales, M.A., and Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A., London (Trübner and Co.), 1867–68, 3 vols.

52.

"ffull 40 yeeres his royall crowne

hath beene his fathers and his owne."

Percy Folio MS. (ii. 25/17–18.)

53. Furnivall's Forewords, p. xiii.

54. The following is a list of these, taken from Mr. Furnivall's Forewords:—

 Sir Cauline.

 King Estmere.

 Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne.

 The Child of Elle.

 Edom O'Gordon (or Captaine Carre).

 Adam Bell, Clym o' the Clough, and William of Cloudesly.

 Take thy old Cloak about thee (or Bell my wife).

 Sir Lancelot du Lake.

 The more modern Ballad of Chevy Chase.

 The Rising in the North.

 Northumberland betrayed by Douglas.

 The Not-browne Mayd.

 Sir Aldingar.

 Gentle Heardsman, tell to me.

 The Beggar's Daughter of Bednal Green.

 Sir Andrew Barton.

 Lady Bothwell's Lament.

 The Murder of the King of Scots.

 The King of Scots and Andrew Browne, though in the Folio, was printed by Percy from the Antiquaries' copy.

 Mary Ambree.

 The Winning of Cales.

 The Spanish Lady's Love.

 The Complaint of Conscience.

 K. John and the Abbot of Canterbury.

 The Heir of Lynne.

 To Althea from Prison (When Love with unconfined wings).

 Old Tom of Bedlam.

 The Boy and the Mantle.

 The Marriage of Sir Gawaine.

 King Arthur's Death.

 The Legend of King Arthur.

 Glasgerion.

 Old Robin of Portingale.

 Child Waters.

 Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.

 Gil Morrice.

 Legend of Sir Guy.

 Guy and Amarant.

 The Shepherd's Resolution.

 The Lady's Fall.

 The King of France's Daughter.

 A Lover of Late.

 The King and Miller of Mansfield.

 Dulcina.

 The Wandering Prince of Troy.

 The Aspiring Shepherd.

55. This work was reprinted twice during the year 1869: 1. at Edinburgh under the editorial care of Mr. Sidney Gilpin; 2. at Glasgow.