The Lady of the Lake
heard it told, exactly as here, by rustics who could not read. My last
authority was a nailer near Cheadle" (R. Jamieson).]
[Footnote 11: See Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, Glasgow, 1808,
vol. ii. p. 117.]
[Footnote 12: A champion of popular romance; see Ellis's Romances, vol. iii.]
[Footnote 13: "That at the eastern extremity of Loch Katrine, so often
mentioned in the text."]
[Footnote 14: "Beallach an duine."]
[Footnote 15: "The reader will find this story told at greater length, and
with the addition in particular of the King being recognized, like the
Fitz-James of the Lady of the Lake, by being the only person covered, in
the First Series of Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii, p. 37. The heir of
Braehead discharged his duty at the banquet given to King George IV. in
the Parliament House at Edinburgh, in 1822" (Lockhart).]