The weight o' their iron graith;
A mother wad scaircely ken't her son
In that griesly band o' death.
Sing oh, &c.

It was upon a day in Spring,
When the scent came frae the thorn,
The Scottice monarch summon't them,
With three waughs o' the horn.
Sing oh, &c.

"Come doun from out your castell grey,
That wons upon the hill,
Or by the rood, we'se shed your blood,
For we are sworn to kill."

through the river, which was then swoln with | His bauldest men can hardlings bear
rain. The Chronicle adds, that his name
was Hammond, and that the place of his
passage over the river, was long after known
by the name of "Hammond's Ford;" proba-
bly where the bridge was afterwards built.
Prince Edward, Malcolm's eldest son, incau-
tiously advancing to revenge his father's
death, received a wound, of which he died
three days after. The spot where Malcolm
was slain is distinguished by a cross, which
was restored in 1774, by Elizabeth, Duchess
of Northumberland, who was immediately
descended from the unfortunate king, by his
daughter Queen Maud, wife of King Henry
I. of England. The west side of the cross
bears the inscription, "Malcolm ye third,
King of Scotlande was slain on this spot,
besieging Alnwick Castle, Novbr. 13, a.d.
M.XCIII." On the east side, "Malcolm's
Cross decayed by time, was restored by his
descendant, Elizabth Duchess of Northumb,
M.D.CCLXXIV." The Cross has three steps
to the pedestal; on the north side are sculp-
tured a crown and thistle, and on the south
side a lion rampant, with other devices. The
pedestal and capital of the old Cross still
remain amongst the adjoining trees.

Sing oh, &c.

Morkall he glinted ower the walls,

"So draw off a space your men; I yield my trust nae help arrives, And Alnwick Castle's taen.

Sing oh, &c.

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"But give to me your kingly word,
Ere I draw asp or bolt,

Ten minutes to come, ten minutes to gae,
Your faith and truth as a Scottice king,
I'se meet you on the holt.

Sing oh, &c.

"And I'll give up my Castle's keys
To thee, thou Scottice king;
The bravest men in a' the Merse
Can dow but as they ding."

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Sing oh, &c.

"My hand and gluve, my faith and troth, I give to thee also;

And I'll grant thee thy liberty,

With leave to come and go."

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The beast sprung forth with na' corn in his They rushed red wud to the Castle gates,

name of "Black Friars, White Friars," and several lanes called "Grey Friars, Low Friars, Crutched Friars," &c.

And, My masters, he sayd, what means this effeir?

THE slaughter of the Bishop is mentioned | write. There are squares still known by the in Brand's History of Durham; what was the offence of this prelate, the historian does not say; perhaps it was a question of tithes, or more probably some ecclesiastical change, to which the people offered resistance, and in the heat of their fury, they broke in upon him and slew him. "The old Chapel by the gate," as the Chronicler avers, might well answer to the old Chapel in Gateshead. The watch word of the murderers was "gude redde, shorte redde, slay ye the Bischoppe," meaning probably, a good riddance; or as "redde" stands for counsel in the old ballads, it may have meant the latter.

He hath broughte King William's honde.

That it was a weighty matter affecting some reformation in the Church, we are led to believe by the Priest being armed with King William's word (that is the parchment), with the law or order signed by the King (William I.).

The Black Friars and the White,
And eke the lowly Greye.

There were Monasteries of all these orders in Newcastle, during the period of which we

"Bodin in effeir," a Border phrase, to come armed for battle.

Rose high as Saynt Nicholasse.
See the Ballad of "Earl Moray."

He clave the woode, when strange to tell
Out gushed a streame of bloode.

A miracle occurred on the feast of St. Oswin (which the author has copied in the present ballad). "On the feast of the passion of St. Oswin (a Saxon martyr and king), as a sailor was cutting a piece of wood on board his schippe at Newcastle-on-Tyne, he saw blood gush out of it in great abundance; recollecting the festival he gave over work, but a companion of his, regardless of the miracle, persisted in his profane business; and upon striking the wood, the blood gushed out in still greater abundance. Both clergy and

Wyth sticks stelle headed, staves and stones, A lowsel lifted his partizan,

Who the author of the "Outlandish Knight" was, I have no means of discovering, as it is one of those Ballads that pass down the stream of time unclaimed, and whose authorship is left for the antiquary to discover.

1Is Ballad is copied from a broad sheet | belr's well known Ballad of "Lord Ullin's in the possession of a gentleman of New- Daughter," is on the same subject. castle; it has also been published in "Richardson's Table Book." The verses with inverted commas are added at the suggestion of a friend, as it was thought the Knight was not rendered sufficiently odious without this new trait of his dishonour. There is in Monk Lewis's Tales of Wonder, a translation AN Outlandish Knight from the north lands from a German Ballad, on the same subject or nearly so; for the Knight goes to church, and meeting with a lovely mayden,

came,

And he came a wooing to me;

He told me he'd take me to the north lands,
And I should his fair bride be.

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