Knight of Liddesdale The Countess of Douglas out of her boure she came And loudly there that she did call: "It is for the Lord of Liddesdale That I let all these tears downe fall." Child #160 From Child, the entire ballad he found From Hume of Godscroft, History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, 1644 William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, was assassinated in 1353 SOF OCT98