1.Spectator, No. 70, 74.
- Subscribed after the usual manner of our old poets,expliceth(explicit)quoth
Rychard Sheale. - One of the earliest productions of the Scottish press, now to be found. The title
page was wanting in the copy here quoted; but it is supposed to have been printed in
1540.-- See Ames. - See Pt. 2. v. 25.
- See Pt. 1. v. 104.
- Pt. 2. v. 36, 140.
- Who died Aug. 5, 1406, in the 7th year of our Hen. IV.
- James I. was crowned May 22, 1424; murdered Feb. 21, 1436-7.
- In 1460. Hen. VI. was deposed 1461; restored and slain, 1471.
- Item.... Concordatum est, quod,... NULLUS unius partis vel alterius
ingrediatur terras, boschas, forrestas, warrenas, loca, dominia quæcunque alicujus
partis alterius subditi, causa venandi, piscandi, aucupandi, disportum aut solatium in
eisdem, aliave quæcunque de causa, ABSQUE LICENTIA ejus... ad quem... loca.
.. pertinent, aut de deputatis suis prius capt. et obtent. -- Vide Bp. Nicholson'sLeges
Marchiarum, 1705, 8vo. pp. 27, 51. - This was the original title. See the ballad, Pt. 1. v. 101. Pt. 2. v. 165.
- See the next ballad.
- Vide Pt. 2. v. 167.
- See ver. 100.
- By these "shyars thre" is probably meant three districts in Northumberland, which
still go by the name of shires, and are all in the neighbourhood of Cheviot. These are
Islandshire, being the district so named from Holy-Island;Norehamshire, so called
from the town and castle of Noreham, or Norham; andBamboroughshire, the ward or
hundred belonging to Baamborough-castle and town. - This is probably corrupted in the manuscript for Rog. Widdrington, who was at
the head of the family in the reign of King Edward III. There were several
successively of the names of Roger and Ralph, but none of the name of Richard, as
appears from the genealogies in the Heralds' office. - Vid. Glos
18.Wane, i.e.ane, one, sc.man. an arrow came from a mighty one: from a mighty
man.
- This seems to have been a gloss added.
- This incident is taken from the battle of Otterbourne; in which Sir Hugh
Montgomery, Knt. (son of John Lord Montgomery) was slain with an arrow. Vid.
Crawford's Peerage. - For these names see the remarks at the end of the next ballad.
- A common pleonasm. (See the next poem, Fit 2d. ver. 155.) So Harding, in his
Chronicle, chap. 140. fol. 148, describing the death of Richard I., says: