Identifier: imperialgazettscv2wils (find matches)
Title: The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, John Marius
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Publisher: London A. Fullarton
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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ndis, quhen thay wer found cowartis, or dis-comfist be thair ennymes, to give occasioun tootheris to be more bald & hardy quhen danger oe-currit. Whatever might be their character in thatearly period, they have in later ages showed, atleast, a gooddeal of humour in their depredations.Of this we have an amusing proof in the ballad ofthe Lochmaben Harper, who, having been seizedwith a strong attachment to the Lord Wardens Wanton Brown, made his way to Carlisle-castle,although blind, and so enchanted the whole com-pany, and even the minions, by the charms of hismusic, that he found means, not only to send off thewardens charger, but to persuade him, that whilehe was exerting himself to the utmost to gratify thecompany, some one had stole his own gude graymare, and thus to secure far more than the valueof all his pretended loss. Allace! allace! quo the cunning auld harper, 1 And ever allace that I cum here!In Scotland I lost a braw cowt foal; In England theyve stown my gude gray murel
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LOCH MABEN. & CASTLE.
Then aye lie harped, ami nye In- earned; Sae sweet were the liarpings lie let them hear:lie was paid for the foal he had never lost, And three times ower for his glide gray mare. Additional to the castles there are, in the land-ward part of the parish, two or three other civilantiquities. Hnlf-a-mile north-west of the town,overlooking the Mill-loch, is a rising ground calledWoody or Dinwoody-castle. The summit, thoughpossessing no vestige of building, is surroundedwith a trench very distinctly marked. In a fieldsouth-west of the town is the circular trace of atower, which anciently possessed a wild fame. Itis called Coekies-field, from one John Cock, orOCoek, who resided in it, and was one of the mostrenowned freebooters of Annandale. An old ballad,still extant, details his feats of arms, dilates on hisgreat personal strength, and narrates the mannerof his death. A party of the Kings foresters, towhom he had been an intolerable pest, and whomhe had r

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