Scott's Border Minstrelsy Exhibition

”Scrapbook”, a collection of newspaper cuttings from the late 18 th century and early 19 th century Scott’s library contains numerous volumes of scrapbooks containing clippings taken from newspapers as well as broadsides and chapbooks. This volume contains doggerel poetry, religious tracts, anecdotal stories, articles about Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as numerous songs and ballads. The song ‘Royal Charle’ found in the scrapbook is included in volume two of Hogg’s ‘Jacobite Relics’ entitled ‘Welcome, Royal Charlie’.