Yet another version, differing from both, is printed in Alf theFreebooter and Other Ballads, 1913, p.
There is a copy of Alf the Freebooter and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum.
According to Satchells, this freebooter was descended of Johnie Armstrong of Gilnockie (See Ballad, p.
The brother of this freebooter was lying in Carlisle jail for execution, when Jock of the Peartree came riding past the gate of Corby castle.
Because to all men it may appear, The freebooterhe is a volunteer; In the muster rolls he has no desire to stay; He lives by purchase, he gets no pay.
The editor believes, his readers will not be displeased to see a Bond of Manrent, granted by this borderfreebooter to the Scottish warden of the west marches, in return for the gift of a feudal casualty of certain lauds particularized.
Gardiner's Island was a favorite resort of the noted freebooter Captain Kidd, and while thousands of people at many places have at various times searched for his buried treasures, this is the only place that anything was ever found.
Gilderoy was a notorious freebooter in the highlands of Perthshire, who, with his gang, for a considerable time infested the country, committing the most barbarous outrages on the inhabitants.
Adam Gordon, founded on the adventure of the freebooter of that name with Edward the First.
But the one freebooter of all others whom he sought--Capt.
I acquiesced, however, in my destination with the best grace I could, consoling myself with the hope that I might obtain from the captive freebooter some information concerning Rashleigh and his machinations.
But the experienced freebooter was not to be baffled where such a prize was at stake.
In a few days the freebooter embarked in the Virgin for Bordeaux, and we lose sight of his stalwart figure and scarred face among the bustling eager crowds that fill the streets of that busy seaport.
The freebooter speaks with much unction of his sponsorship.
In the very instant that the girl put forward her simple request, his eyes were fixed on the swarthy features of a Portuguese freebooter known to him as the greatest among the many scoundrels infesting the hinterland of Nigeria.
In any case my vocabulary could not possibly consort with the stately utterances of St. Paul, as it consists mainly of remarks adapted to the intelligence of a certain type of freebooter peculiar to the West African hinterland.
The eyes of the maddenedfreebooter rolled wildly in his head.
Rimaardson, amidst his pressing cares, had not observed that, on the previous night, a freebooter had run in close to Tornborg under Danish colours.
This was the Norwegian freebooter chief, Jarl Mindre-Alf.
Sir Abildgaard took Rimaardson's vacated seat; and the daring Norse freebooter stretched himself rudely on the chair where Thorstenson had been sitting.
Neither the marsk nor the Norse freebooter had received him as he had expected when he led Henner Friser and the royal huntsmen into their stronghold at Helgeness.
On his return one of his vessels was captured by the Dutch freebooter Spillberg.
Johnnie was a notorious freebooter and Border raider, no one daring to go his way for fear of Johnnie or his followers.
The king, incensed to see a freebooter so gentlemanly equipped, commanded him instantly to be led to execution, saying, "What wants this knave save a crown to be as magnificent as a king?
The bridge by which we recrossed the river had been partially built with stones from the ruins of Gilnockie Tower, once the stronghold of the famous freebooter Johnnie Armstrong, of whom we had heard higher up the country.
It is reported that a noted French freebooter who had joined the pirates as a runaway debtor, hoped in this way to secure enough to pay off his debts.
In a similar way the English freebooter was by the French corrupted into flibustier and later came back to us as filibuster.
The freebooter shrugged his shoulders and remarked, 'that they might trust a worse person than the one last mentioned.
In proportion as the body of our troops, to be employed against a freebooter of this description, have the power of moving with celerity, will such freebooter be distressed.
Saying this, he rapidly left them, as he feared the freebooter might perceive that he was giving a last word of warning to the stranger.
He comprehended that the evil instincts of the freebooter had resumed their sway over the better thoughts which, for a moment, had seemed to assert their mastery.
He had been, after a sort, a freebooter in his time, but born an age or two rather late; and the law had proved over strong for him.
Because I intend to make him remember Medon," the freebooter answered savagely.
I am sending to you Syphax, a freebooter from Rhodes, who will deliver to you a young woman.
The bloated face of the freebooter grew purple with eagerness as he heard the sounds of conflict and of panic spread through the city.
That freebooterof civilization, the man who lives by his wits, is subject to strange fluctuations from prosperity to adversity.
At the end of five years of desperate fighting, the freebooter was more strongly entrenched than he had been at any previous time.
Although the vulgar had, until his apprehension, murmured against Rienzi for allowing so notorious a freebooter to be at large, he was scarcely dead ere they compassionated the object of their terror.
