Who did invent that day of play,
  We need not fear to find him soon;
  For Sir John Forster, I dare well say,
  Made us this noisome afternoon. 
  Not that I speak preceislie out,
  That he supposed it would be perril;
  But pride, and breaking out of feuid,
  Garr’d Tindaill lads begin the quarrel.

[Footnote 143:  Green—­Long.]

[Footnote 144:  Weil beseen—­Well appointed.  The word occurs in Morte Arthur:  “And when Sir Percival saw this, he hied him thither, “and found the ship covered with silke, more blacker than any beare; and therein was a gentlewoman, of great beautie, and she was richly beseene, that none might be better.”]

[Footnote 145:  Lave—­Remainder.]

[Footnote 146:  Palliones—­Tents.]

[Footnote 147:  Cracking crouse—­Talking big.]

[Footnote 148:  Rowes—­Rolls.]

[Footnote 149:  Raxed him—­Stretched himself up.]

[Footnote 150:  Red the cumber—­Quell the tumult.]

[Footnote 151:  Cost—­Signifies loss or risk.]

[Footnote 152:  Raise—­Rose.]

[Footnote 153:  But, &c.—­Till once his anger was up.]

[Footnote 154:  Genzie—­Engine of war.]

[Footnote 155:  Flain—­Arrows; hitherto absurdly printed slain.]

[Footnote 156:  Thirs—­These are.]

[Footnote 157:  By—­Besides.]

NOTES ON THE RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE.

* * * * *

  Carmichael was our warden then.—­P. 157. v. 2.

Sir John Carmichael was a favourite of the resent Morton, by whom he was appointed warden of the middle marches, in preference to the border chieftains.  With the like policy, the regent married Archibald Carmichael, the warden’s brother, to the heiress of Edrom, in the Merse, much contrary to the inclination of the lady and her friends.  In like manner, he compelled another heiress, Jane Sleigh, of Cumlege, to marry Archibald, brother to Auchinleck of Auchiuleck, one of his dependants.  By such arbitrary practices, Morton meant to strengthen his authority on the borders; instead of which, he hastened his fall, by giving disgust to his kinsman the Earl of Angus, and his other friends, who had been established in the country for ages.—­Godscroft, Vol.  II.  Pages 238. 246.  Sir John Carmichael, the warden, was murdered 16th June, 1600, by a party of borderers, at a place called Raesknows, near Lochmaben, whither he was going to hold a court of justice.  Two of the ring-leaders in the slaughter, Thomas Armstrong, called Ringan’s Tarn, and Adam Scott, called the Pecket, were tried at Edinburgh, at the instance of Carmichael of Edrom.  They were condemned to have their right hands struck off, thereafter to be hanged, and their bodies gibbeted