The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

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The editor believes, his readers will not be displeased to see a Bond of Manrent, granted by this border freebooter to the Scottish warden of the west marches, in return for the gift of a feudal casualty of certain lauds particularized.  It is extracted from Syme’s Collection of Old Writings, MS. penes Dr. Robert Anderson, of Edinburgh.