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Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

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Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight is Child ballad 195. It is based on the actions of John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell, who killed Sir James Johnstone in 1608 as the culmination of a family feud. He fled to France and was sentenced to death in his absence, returning in secret five years later. He was apprehended and beheaded at Edinburgh on 21 May 1613.^[1]^[2]

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Lady Maxwell asks her husband to come with her into her father's garden. He tells her that he killed the laird Johnstone, who killed his father, and must flee. He bids a tender farewell to her, the rest of his family, and Scotland, and is escorted off to his ship by a great company.

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1. ^{{cite book|last=Aytoun|first=William Edmondstoune|title=The Ballads of Scotland, v.2}} p.261-263
2. ^{{cite |url=https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun06pauluoft#page/484/mode/1up |title=Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale |work=The Scots Peerage |authorlink=James Balfour Paul |last=Balfour Paul |first=James |year=1904 |publisher=D. Douglas |location=Edinburgh |volume=VI |pages=484–485}}

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Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight
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Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight. In: [https://archive.org/stream/englishandscopt104chiluoft#page/34/mode/2up The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.] Edited by Francis James Child. Part VII. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston 1890, p. 34 Archive.org

2 : Child Ballads|Scottish folklore

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