Note 1 — 189 HOBIE NOBLE

The brother is Peter o Whitfield. ‘Jock o the Side,’ A, begins, ‘Peeter a Whifeild he hath slaine, and John a Side he is tane.’ ‘The great Earl of Whitfield,’ 103, seemed to Scott a corruption, and he suggested ‘the great Ralph’ Whitfield; but Surtees gave him information (which has not transpired) that led him to think that the reading ‘Earl’ might be right. Whitfield, in Northumberland, is a few miles southwest of Hexham, and about twenty-five, in a straight line, from Kershope, or the border.