P. 253. J. Haslewood made an entry in his copy of Ritson's Scotish Song of a Manuscript Lute-Book (presented to Dr. C. Burney by Dr. Skene, of Marischal College, in 1781), which contained airs "noted and collected by Robert Gordon, at Aberdeen, in the year of our Lord 1627." Among some ninety titles of tunes mentioned, there occur 'Ther wer three ravens,' and 'God be with the, Geordie.' (W. Macmath.)
"The song of 'The Twa Corbies' was given to me by Miss Erskine of Alva (now Mrs. Kerr), who, I think, said that she had written it down from the recitation of an old woman at Alva." C.K. Sharpe to Scott, August 8, 1802, Letters, I, 70, Abbotsford; printed in Sharpe's Letters, ed. Allardyce, I, 136.
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