The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads


Edited by
Francis James Child


Part VI


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No. 233


Copyright, 1889, by F. J. Child.


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Mr Macmath has helped me in many ways in the preparation of this Sixth Part, and, as before, has been prodigal of time and pains. I am under particular obligations to Mr Robert Bruce Armstrong, of Edinburgh, for his communications concerning the ballad-folk of the Scottish border, and to Dr Wilhelm Wollner, of the University of Leipsic, and Mr George Lyman Kittredge, my colleague in Harvard College, for contributions (indicated by the initials of their names) which will be found in the Additions and Corrections. Dr Wollner will continue his services. Mr John Karłowicz, of Warsaw, purposes to review in 'Wisła' all the English ballads which have Polish affinities, and Professor Alexander Vesselofsky has allowed me to hope for his assistance; so that there is a gratifying prospect that the points of contact between the English and the Slavic popular ballads will in the end be amply brought out. Thanks are due and are proffered, for favors of various kinds, to Lieutenant-Colonel Lumsden, of London, Lieutenant-Colonel Prideaux, of Calcutta, Professor Skeat, Miss Isabel Florence Hapgood, Professor Vinogradof, of Moscow, Professor George Stephens, Mr Axel Olrik, of Copenhagen (to whom the completion of Sven Grundtvig's great work has been entrusted), Mr James Barclay Murdoch, of Glasgow, Dr F. J. Furnivall, Professor C. R. Lanman, Mr P. Z. Round. and Mr W. W. Newell.

F. J. C.

July, 1889.

Contents
Page
156. Queen Eleanor's Confession 257
157. Gude Wallace 265
158. Hugh Spencer's Feats in France 275
159. Durham Field 282
160. The Knight of Liddesdale 288
161. The Battle of Otterburn 289
162. The Hunting of the Cheviot 303
163. The Battle of Harlaw 316
164. King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France 320
165. Sir John Butler 327
166. The Rose of England 331
167. Sir Andrew Barton 334
168. Flodden Field 351
169. Johnie Armstrong 362
170. The Death of Queen Jane 372
171. Thomas Cromwell 377
172. Musselburgh Field 378
173. Mary Hamilton 379
174. Earl Bothwell 399
175. The Rising in the North 401
176. Northumberland betrayed by Douglas 408
177. The Earl of Westmoreland 416
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon 423
179. Rookhope Ryde 439
180. King James and Brown 442
181. The Bonny Earl of Murray 447
182. The Laird o Logie 449
183. Willie Macintosh 456
184. The Lads of Wamphray 458
185. Dick o the Cow 461
186. Kinmont Willie 469
187. Jock o the Side 475
188. Archie o Cawfield 484
Additions and Corrections 496