Robert Riddell manuscripts: A Collection of Scottish Antiquities Selected by R.R. Vol 11 1791

Abstract

• Ballads, with notes: Jock o’ Milk (p.1); Archie of Capeld (p.14); Lord Maxwell’s Goodnight (p.18); Sir Andrew Barton (p.20); Fair Helen of Kirkconnel (pp.29, 46); Lads of Wamphray (p.34); Lochmaben Harper (pp.39, 42); Fray of Soupart (p.55); Border Lament of the Union (p.59); Outlaw Murray (p.61); Laidley Worm (p.71); McNaughton (p.78); Young Bechin (p.80); Young Tom Line (p.84); ‘Facts relating to Locher River & Moss’ (p.123); Robert Edgar’s ‘Introduction to the history....of Dumfries’ (p.140), with addenda by Riddell (p.254) (published from this MS. in 1915); Engravings of buildings, with remarks (p.258).- Basil Skinner’s notes, 1959