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gorgeously caparisoned. James, struck with the grand array, 
exclaimed: “‘What hath this man that a King ought not to have!” 
and commanded him to be hanged with all his men. Johnnie 
pleaded, but the King was inexorable, and, according to the poet, 
always exclaimed :— 
Away, away, thou traitor strang, 
Out of my sight soon may’st thou be ; 
e I granted never a traitor’s life, 
And now I'll not begin wi’ thee. 
Grant me my life, my liege, my king, 
‘ And a brave gift I’ll gi’ to thee— 
tf All between here and Newcastle town, 
Shall pay their yearly rent to thee. 
f At last Gilnockie got angry, and told the king it was useless to 
seek grace from a graceless face, or hot water under ice, but that 
if he had known, neither Harry nor he should have taken him. 
And so he and his thirty-six men were hanged on growing trees, 
which, it is said, withered from that day. 
Kinmont Willie, another chief, was commanded to attend a 
truce of the Wardens at Kershope-burn. During the truce, Willie 
was captured by the English illegally, and carried off to Carlisle 
; Castle. The bold Buccleuch protested against it, and when he 
found pleading of no use, he determined to try to rescue him. 
e Having got, privately, the measurement of the walls and the 
____ position of the cell in which Willie was confined, he set out with 
{ two hundred chosen men, crossed the Esk and Eden in the dark, 
f ~ got into the Castle, took the guard prisoners, broke open the door 
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of the cell, rescued his man, recrossed the Eden in the face of the 
foe, liberated the prisoners he had taken, and returned across the 
borders without the loss of a man. 
Jock o’ the Side was a mosstrooper, who, for taking part in the 
unfortunate insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and 
Westmorland, was imprisoned in Newcastle gaol. Hobbie Noble, 
a gigantic Cumbrian, and two others, determined to rescue him. 
On arriving at Newcastle they found the walls too high to scale, 
and so, seizing the guard whom they killed, they got the keys, and 
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