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

Note 301 — 184 THE LADS OF WAMPHRAY

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“In the end of this year [1593] there fell out great troubles in the west marches. Some of the surname of Johnston having in the July preceding made a great depredation upon the lands of Sanwhare and Drumlanrig, and killed eighteen persons that followed for rescue of their goods,” etc. Spottiswood, p. 400, ed. 1666.

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