P. 39. Miscellanea Curiosa, Manuscript, vol. vi, Abbotsford Library, A. 3, has for its last piece 'The Burning of the Tower of Frendraught, an Historical Ballad," in forty-eight stanzas. It begins:
"A Satyre against Frendraught, in which ware burned the Vicount of Melgum, Laird of Rothiemay, and sundrie other gentlemen, in anno 1630," 218 lines, Manuscript in a seventeenth-century hand, is No 1 in a volume with the title Scottish Tracts, Abbotsford Library, B. 7. Mr. Macmath suggests that this may be the "flyte" which Sharpe and Sir W. Scott thought of printing.
45 b, B 71. Read he's.
47 b, 181. Read Lady.
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