Note 40 — 269

See Percy’s Reliques, 1765, III, 154, and Ebsworth, Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 650. It is in many of the collections of black-letter broadsides besides the Roxburghe, as Pepys, Wood, Crawford, etc. Though perhaps absolutely the silliest ballad that ever was made, and very far from silly sooth, the broadside was traditionally propagated in Scotland without so much change as is usual in such cases: ‘There livd a knight in Jesuitmont.’ Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy, No 22 e, Abbotsford, in the handwriting of William Laidlaw, derived from Jean Scott; ‘The Knight in Jesuite,’ Campbell MSS, II, 63; ‘There was a knight in Jessamay,’ Motherwell’s MS. p. 399, from Agnes Laird, of Kilbarchan. Percy’s ballad is translated by Bodmer, I, 167, and by Döring, p. 91. The tragedy is said to be localized at Radcliffe, Lancashire: Harland, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, ed. 1879, p. 46, Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire, 1879, I, 107, both citing Dr Whitaker’s History of Whalley.