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Ballad on young Rob Roy's abduction of Jean Key, Cromek's Collections. See Letter to C.K. Sharpe, from Drumlanrig, vol. ii. pp. 369-71. Sir Frederick Adam, son of the Chief Commissioner a distinguished soldier, afterwards High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, and subsequently Governor of Madras; he died in 1853. Mr.
Branks, "a sort of bridle used by country people in riding." Jamieson. Burns in a Scotch letter to Nicol of June 1, 1787, says, "I'll be in Dumfries the morn gif the beast be to the fore and the branks bide hale." Cromek's Reliques, p. 29. Relating to the changes in the Court of Session. David Dalrymple of Westhall was a judge of the Court of Session from 1777 till his death in 1784.
Though clutching the palm in this case, and in some others, it is satisfactory to know that Cromek's clever turns led to no other end than poverty; and nothing worse than poverty had Blake, with all his simplicity, to encounter. But Blake, in his poverty, had meat to eat which the wily publisher knew not of. In the wake of this failure followed another.
First Series, ending with the story of The Surgeon's Daughter. Mr. Lockhart justly remarks that this entry "paints the man in his tenderness, his fortitude, and happy wisdom." Charles Rose Ellis had been created Baron Seaford in 1826. See Cromek's Reliques of Burns, p. 210. October 1.
He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads, which he contributed to Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, pub. in 1810, and which gained for him the friendship of Scott and Hogg.
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