Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

480 MINSTRELSY OF
NOTE
ON A VISIT PAID TO
THE RUINS OF MELROSE ABBEY
Melrose Abbey was reduced to its present ruinous state
partly by the English barons in their hostile inroads, and
partly by John Knox and his followers. For a reason why
its abbots should be supposed to take an interest in the Buc-
cleuch family, see the Notes to the " Lay of the Last Jlin-
strel," octavo edition, p. 238.