Note 52 — WALK V.
Reading edition
There is a poem in the Bannatyne MS. termed "Rowll's Cursing." Whether written by him, or only in his name, is not known. "The following passage in it," writes the learned Lord Hailes, "determines the era at which he lived:—
----and now of Rome that beiris the rod, Undir the hevin to lowse and bind, Paip Alexander.
The Pontiff here meant must have been the virtuous Alexander VI., who was Divine Vicegerent, from 1492 to 1503." In Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, printed by Dr. Laing in 1822, the poem is given, and entitled
The cursing of Sir John Rowlis Upoun the steilars of his fowlis;
but to which of the two Rowlls this refers is unknown.