_Hew the Hay_ seems to be the same person who afterwards married a sister of King Robert the Bruce, the widow of Laurence Lord Abernethy. He was descended from William Hay of Errol, and was ancestor to the family of Tweeddale. V. Nisbet, I. 182. He is designed Hay of Locharret, or Lochquharret, county of Edinburgh. The ancient orthography was _Lochuswerword_, _Locherworn_. Sir James Dalrymple’s Coll. Pref. 76; also _Locherward_, Ind. Chart. I. 26,--16. 9. 13.
_All_ Mydlame _land thai brynt wp in a fyr,_ _Brak parkis doun, distroyit all the schyr._--V. 945.
In MS. _mydlen_. This I have explained as signifying middle, or denoting lands lying in the interior of a county or district. V. Etym. Dict. But I have here adopted the reading of Edit. 1594. Wallace being represented as at this time in Yorkshire, this is probably the honour or town of Middleham in the northern part of this county. In Bleau’s Atlas, it is written _Midlam_. It afterwards belonged to the Nevilles, who were Earls of Richmond.
_Amang noblis gyff euyr ony thar was,_ _So lang throw force in Ingland lay on cass,_ _Sen_ Brudus _deit, but battaill, bot Wallace._--V. 962.
In editions _Brutus_: i. e. he who is called _the Brute_.
_Than had we nayn bot ladyis to repruff._ _That sall_ he nocht, _be God that is abuff._ _Vpon wemen I will na wer begyn._--V. 1437.
That sall _not be_, be God that sitis abufe.
This might at first view seem to correspond better with the preceding line, as signifying the determination of Wallace to make no retaliation on the female sex for the treachery of men; but as the author perhaps refers back to what is said in v. 1435, as to the king breaking any truce, made by women, as soon as he found it convenient, and then proceeds to declare that he would make no war on them, I have retained the verse as it is in MS. Thus, it expresses a determination that Edward should have no opportunity of acting so treacherous a part.
_A harrold went, in all the haist he may,_ _Till_ Tawbane _waill, quhar at the Scottis lay._--V. 1497.
In Edit. 1594, _Auane_. The place is the same mentioned before, v. 1170, Sanct _Awbawnys_, i. e. St Albans. If we might suppose the _Tantonie bell_ to be a corruption of “St Antony’s bell,” we could easily account for the introduction of the letter _T_ here, as an abbreviation for _Sanct_.