Colin Mackenzie, J.B.S. Morritt, and an unnamed author. In
the other parts of the book there are a few imitations, notably the
three by Surtees--_Lord Ewine_, the _Death of Featherstonhaugh_, and
_Barthram's Dirge_, which Scott supposed were old; and one or two like
the _Flowers of the Forest_, which he noted as largely modern, or
which he had found, after arranging his material, to be wholly modern.
Nearly forty old ballads were published in the _Minstrelsy_ for the
first time.]

[Footnote 67: _Remarks on Popular Poetry_, conclusion.]

[Footnote 68: Review of the Poems of William Herbert. _Edinburgh
Review_, October, 1806.]

[Footnote 69: Stanzas 10-12, and 31, are noted by Child as
particularly suspicious. "Basnet," which occurs in stanza 10, is not a
very common word in ballads. It is used in _The Lay_, Canto I., stanza
25, and in _Marmion_, Canto VI, st. 21.]

[Footnote 70: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 221.]

[Footnote 71: _Memoir of William Taylor_, Vol. I, pp. 98-99, and see
_Sharpe's Correspondence_, Vol. I, pp. 146-7, for a letter to Sharpe
on a similar point.]

[Footnote 72: _Minstrelsy_, Introduction to _Lord Thomas and Fair
Annie_.]

[Footnote 73: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 101.]

[Footnote 74: _Ibid._, Vol. I, pp. 35-6.]

[Footnote 75: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 244. See also _Lockhart_,
Vol. V, p. 408.]

[Footnote 76: Sometime before 1821 (probably a good while before, but
the date cannot be fixed), Scott began a translation of _Don Quixote_,
and afterwards gave the work over to Lockhart, who completed it. See
_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 161.]

[Footnote 77: Louis-Elizabeth de la Vergne, Comte de Tressan, was born
in 1705 and died in 1783. In early life he was sent to Rome on
diplomatic business, and it is said that in the Vatican library he
acquired his taste for the literature of chivalry. His chief works
were _Amadis de Gaules_ (1779); _Roland furieux_ (translated from the
Italian, 1780); _Corps d'extraits romans de chevalerie_ (1782). His
translations were partly adaptations, and were far from being rendered
with precision.]

[Footnote 78: See particularly his article on Ellis's and Ritson's
_Metrical Romances_ (_Edinburgh Review_, January, 1806), the essay on
_Romance_, and _Remarks on Popular Poetry_ in the _Minstrelsy_.]

[Footnote 79: _Edinburgh Review_, July, 1804. Ellis and Scott had had
mu