Wadded. p. 4. perhaps from Wear-in. s. worry in, drive in. Weird. wizzard, witch. Pro- Well away. exclam. of pity. Werryed. worryed. Wha. s. who. Whair. s. where. Whan. s. when, Whang. s. p. 36. a large flice. Whittles. knives. Wight. buman creature, man or woman: Wild-worm, ferpent. Wit, weet. know. understand. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. VOL. I. Alate. late. Bauzen's skinne. fheep's leather dreffed, and coloured red. f. bazane. Or, perhaps, badger's fkin, for Baufon is a badger in Old English. Bearing arrow. Or, perhaps, bering or birring, i. e. a whirring, or, whizzing arrow: from Ifl. Bir, Ventus, or, A. S. Bene. fremitus. Bode. p. 110. abode, Rayed. Dell. part. every dell. every part. Depured. purified, run clear. Downae. s. am not able. Properly, cannot take the trouble. Drovyers, drovers. fuch as drive herds of cattle; and probably, deer, &c. Dryvars. idem. Flyte. to contend with words, fcold. Forbode. commandment. p. 159. Over God's forbode. [præter dei præceptum fit.] q. d. God forbid. Gamon. p. 41. to make game, to sport. A. S. Gamenian. jocari. Harried, &c. robbed, pillaged. Harlocke. p. 284. perhaps, Charlocke. or, wild rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c. Holtes. woods, groves, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS IN VOLUME I. Page 14. OST of the names in this and the following ballad are found to have belonged to families of diftinction in the North, as may be made appear from authentic records. Thus Ver. 112. Agerstone. J Thomas Haggerston is among the commiffioners returned for Northumberland in 12 Hen. 6. 1433. (Fuller's Worthies. p. 310.) Ver. 113. Hartly.] Andreas de Harcla was heriff of Cumberland for 4 years: viz. from the 2d. to the 6th year of Edw. II. (Fuller. p. 224) Ver. 114. Hearone.] Johannes Hearon, miles, is among thofe who figned a treaty with the Scots in 1449. Hen. 6. (See Nicholfon's Laws of the Borders. p. 34.)Henry Hearon of Alnwycke is one of the commiffioners for the inclofures in the Middle Marches in 1552. (Ibid. p. 330. and fee others of the fame furname in that commiffion. p. 331. 332. 333-335- Two Herons are among the commiffioners in Fuller. p. 310. Johan Heronn was heriff of Northumberland in 35 of Edw. 3. (Fuller. p. 311.) Alfo in 7° of Richard 2. (p. 312.) and others afterwards. Ver. 115. Lovele.] Joh. de. Lavale, miles, was sheriff of Northumberland 34 Hen. 7. - Joh. de Lavele, mil. in the 1 Edw. 6. and afterwards. (Fuller 313.) In Nicholson this name is Spelt Da Lovel. p. 304 Ver. 117. Rugbè.] Tho. Rokeby, mil. was sheriff of Yorkshire in 12 of Hen. 4. (Fuller. p. 219.) Ver. 119. Wetharrington.) Rog. de Widrington was feeriff of Northumberland in 36 of Edw. 3. (Fuller, p. 311.) Joh. de Widrington in 11 of Hen. IV. and many others of the fame name afterwards. Z 2 -Sir John Wetherington 1 therington is one of the commiffioners for inclofure in 1552. (See Nicholson. p. 331.)-Of this family was the late Lord Witherington. -Robertus Ver. 129. Maxwell.] Herbertus Dom9 Maxwell, is one of the Scots, who figned the treaty in 1449.Dominus Maxwell is one of ths Scottish confervators of the treaty in 1464. Edw. IV. (See Nicholson. p. 60. also, p. 79.98.) Page 30. Ver. 188. Agurftonne.] Richardus Hagerftoun, miles, is one of the Scottish knights, who figned a treaty with the English in 1249. Hen. 3. (Nicholson. p. 2. note.) Ver. 199. Fitz-hughe.] Thomas Dominus Fitz-hue is one of the confervators of the treaty with the Scots in 1449. (Nicholson. p. 33.) As Henricus Dominus Fitz-Heughe is of the treaty in 1464. (Ib. p. 60.) Ver. 201. Harbotle.] Rob. Herbotell, mil. was sheriff of Northumberland in 18 of Henry 6. and Bertr. Herbotell in the 26 of the fame reign. Rad. Herbotle, mil. was sub-vic. in 2 of Rich. 3. (See Fuller. p. 312. 313.) Page 243. The names here feem corrupted, Ogerton from Haggerston, Baron from Hearon, and Rabby from Rugby: yet with regard to Ver. 191. Ratcliffe.] Edw. Radcliffe, mil. was sheriff of Northumberland in 17 of Hen. 7. and others of the fame furname afterwards. (See Fuller. p. 313.) Sir George Ratcliff, Knt. was one of the commiffioners of inclofure in 1552. (See Nicholson. p. 330.)— Of this family was the late Earl of Derwentwater, who was beheaded in 1715. Page 36. Introd.] The eldeft ladies of Queen Elizabeth's court are defcribed as SKILFUL IN SURGERIE in Harrison's Defcription of of England prefixed to Holingfhed's Chronicle. ton's Obferv. Vol. 2. p. 130. Page 75. See War This epitaph has all the marks of a modern forgery, the language bearing no refemblance to any ancient writings in the Northern dialect. With regard to the heroe of this ballad he was the favourite fubject of popular fongs, fo early as the reign of Edward III. In the Vifions of Pierce Plowman, fol. 26. Ed. 1550. a monk fays -I can rimes of Roben hod, and Randall of Chester, But of our lorde and our lady, I lerne nothỵng at all, Page 203. 'Tis probable, after all, that the ftory of Titus Andronicus was not the original invention of this ballad-maker; he feems to give only fhort heads of a narrative, related more circumftantially by Some other writer. VOLUME THE SECON D. Page 45. SINCE this page was printed off, reafons have occurred, which incline me to believe that Lord VAUX the poet, was not the Lord NICHOLAS VAUX, who died in 1523, but rather a fucceffor of his in the title. -For in the first place it is remarkable that all the old writers mention Lord Vaux the poet, as contemporary or rather pofterior to Sir THOMAS WYAT, and the E. of SURREY, neither of which made any figure till long after the death of the first Lord Nicholas Vaux. Thus Puttenham in his "Art of English Poefie, 1589." in p. 48. having named SKELTON, adds, Z3 "In |