Note 16 — THE GUDEWIFE OF TULLOSHILL, AND THE LORD OF LAUDERDALE.
Reading edition
When on a pilgrimage lately to the scenery of this Ballad, I saw the far-famed silver belt or chain, now in the possession of a respectable farmer in Berwickshire, a maternal descendant of the gudewife. It does not appear, however, to have been a female ornament, but rather the band for girding the sacerdotal robes of a portly bishop. The chain is four feet eight inches long, and capable of being contracted, with a circular plate in the middle, marked with the initials B. C.