Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

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body to be tane upone the said row, and set up
in ane publick place betwix the place of Wa-
riestoun and the town of Leith, and to remain
thairupon ay and quhill command be gevin for
the buriall thairof.—Records of Justiciary.
The lady did not escape the just punishment
of her crime; for " Scho was tane to the Girth
crosse*, upon the 5th day of Julii, [three days af-
ter the murder] and her heid struck frae her
bodie, at the Cannagait fit, quha diet very pa-
tiently; her nurische was brunt at the same
time, at 4 hours in the morning, the 5th of Ju-
lii.—BirreVs Diary, p. 49.
The reader will find another version of this
ballad in Mr. Jamieson's collection, vol. 1.
$. 109.
* Girth- Crosse—so called from having once stood at the foot
of the Canongate, near the Girth or sanctuary of Holyrood-
house.