[Footnote A: _Garlard_--Anc. Songs.]

[Footnote B: _Boles_--Anc. Songs.]

[Footnote C: _Border_--Anc, Songs.]



NOTE ON HUGHIE THE GRAEME.


_And wi' the Bishop thou play'd the whore._--P. 326, v. 9.

Of the morality of Robert Aldridge, bishop of Carlisle, we know but
little; but his political and religious faith were of a stretching and
accommodating texture. Anthony a Wood observes, that there were many
changes in his time, both in church and state; but that the worthy
prelate retained his offices and preferments during them all.



JOHNIE OF BREADISLEE.

AN ANCIENT NITHESDALE BALLAD.


The hero of this ballad appears to have been an outlaw and
deer-stealer--probably one of the broken men residing upon the border.
There are several different copies, in one of which the principal
personage is called _Johnie of Cockielaw_. The stanzas of greatest merit