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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

Note 274 — 178 CAPTAIN CAR, OR, EDOM O GORDON

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Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 255. What place is meant by Carrigill here is of no present consequence, since it was Towie that was burnt. Many writers, as Tytler, VII, 367, following Crawfurd’s spurious Memoirs, p. 240, 1706, make the number that perished in the house thirty-seven.

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