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Scan 309

the history of the violin, 1864

4 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 287. See the scan on archive.org.

1Note 4, "Sir John Forster, or, more properly, Forrester, of Balmborough Abbey, warden of the Middle Marches in 1561, was deputy-governor of Berwick, and governor of Balmborough Castle. He made a great figure on the Borders, and is said, on his monument at Balmborough Church, to have possessed the office of Warden of the Middle Marches for thirty-seven years. This family ended in the unfortunate Thomas Forster, one of the generals of the Northumbrian insurgents in 1715; and the estate, being forfeited, was purchased by his uncle, Lord Crewe, and devised for the support of his magnificent charity."
3There is also a note to the song, "Dick o' the Cow," p. 72. "A challenge had been given by an Englishman, named Forster, to any Scottish Borderer, to fight him at a place called Kershopefoot, exactly upon the Borders. The Laird's Jock's only son accepted the defiance, and was armed by his father with his own two-handed sword. The old champion himself, though bed-ridden, insisted upon being present at the battle. He was borne to the place appointed, wrapped, it is said, in blankets, and placed upon a very high stone to witness the conflict. In the duel his son fell—treacherously slain, as the Scottish tradition affirms. The old man gave a loud yell of terror and despair when he saw his son slain, and his noble weapon won by an Englishman, and died as they bore him home. . . . The stone on which the Laird's Jock sat to behold the duel, was in existence till wantonly destroyed a year or two since. It was always called the Laird's Jock's Stone. 1802. [The reader will find Sir Walter Scott recurring to the fate of the Laird's Jock in 1828. See Waverley Novels, vol. xli. p. 377.]" There is also an official tract in the British Museum worthy of notice regarding this name,

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