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	Earl of Moray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title was next given to George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly.
		Furthermore, Lord Moray holds the title Baron Stuart, of Castle Stuart in the County of Inverness; since it is in the Peerage of Great Britain, it entitled the Earls of Moray to sit in the House of Lords until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.
		Perhaps the most well-known Earl of Moray was James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, the husband of Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray, who held the Earldom jure uxoris (by right of his wife), as he was the subject of a famous ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray" ("Murray" being a variant spelling of "Moray").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Moray (446 words)

	Earl of Huntly Attainted
		It was this Earl of Murray who was known as the "bonny" earl, and, according to some historians, had impressed the heart of Anne of Denmark, and excited the jealousy of her royal spouse.
		As for the Earl of Huntly, he was summoned, at the instance of the Lord of St. Colme, brother of the deceased Earl of Murray, to stand trial.
		The Earl of Huntly’s vanguard was composed of 300 gentlemen, led by the Earl of Errol, Sir Patrick Gordon of Auchindun, the laird of Gight, the laird of Bonnitoun, and Captain, afterwards Sir Thomas Carr.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/genhist/hist37.html (2897 words)

	ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
		Evidence Murray" was the shameful title subsequently bestowed and it embittered the rest of his life, for he had to endure the whip lash of scorn.
		John Murray: Burgess in Edenbourough, who was in Feb. 1505-06 assignee of the executors of William Murray, in Stanhope, his fathers brother, as younger brother of Patrick of Fallahill; had charter of the Barony of Black barony or Hatton, 1507; married.
		Alexander Murray: of Cringletie; Sheriff of Peebles; M.P. of Peebles; married.
	groups.msn.com /ANCIENTMURRAYGENEALOGY/murrayofstanhope.msnw (7221 words)

	ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
		The Earl married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan and is said to have died in 1442.
		The Earl’s second wife was apparently Fingole, daughter of William of Calder, Thane of Cawdor, widow of John Monro of Fowlis, who died in or before 1591, a divorce between her and the Earl was being prepared in 1497-98 and he married thirdly Catherine, named Countess of Sutherland in 1509-12.
		John son of John and ninth Earl of Sutherland, at an early age was taken with his father in the presence of King James IV in 1493 and succeeded in 1508 as ward of the Crown, the Earldom being administered by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness.
	groups.msn.com /ANCIENTMURRAYGENEALOGY/murrayoftullibardinatholl.msnw (8135 words)

	the~lady~mondegreen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That was a bad move on the part of the Earl of Murray, and he was soon slain.
		The murderous Earl of Huntrly went back to the court of King James VI, assuming the whole affair to be over.
		The Earl of Huntly may have won the battle, but the Bonny Earl of Murray won in posterity.
	www.home.no /choklit/tion/monderay.html (158 words)

	The Session: Tunes - The Bonny Earl Of Murray (waltz)
		This is the tune of the old Scottish ballad referred to by Jack Gilder in the thread http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/2980, where he was discussing the origin of the literary term "mondegreen".
		Briefly, the story is that Huntly was commissioned by James VI of Scotland in 1592 to arrest the popular Earl of Murray, who was in disgrace, but instead killed him and burnt his house.
		As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines 'They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen.' As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years.
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/2550/comments (683 words)

	Bonny Earl of Murray, The [Child 181] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		DESCRIPTION: The Earl of Huntly slays the Earl of Murray (in his own bed?) as a result of the violent feud between them.
		Feb 7, 1592 - Murder of the Earl of Murray.
		James VI ordered the Earl of Huntley to apprehend Murray (said to be involved in rebellion), and Huntley apparently decided to do more than that
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/C181.html (218 words)

	The Poetry of Scotland - The Bonny Earl of Murray, a Scottish Ballad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Poetry of Scotland - The Bonny Earl of Murray, a Scottish Ballad
		James Stewart, the Earl of Moray had been implicated with the Earl of Boswell in an attack on Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
		In 1592, the Earl of Huntly and his cohorts killed the Earl of Moray at Donibristle in Fife.
	www.it-serve.co.uk /poetry/Ballads/murray.php (79 words)

	RPO -- Thomas Percy : The Bonny Earl of Murray
		RPO -- Thomas Percy : The Bonny Earl of Murray
		The king unadvisedly gave a commission to George Gordon, Earl of Huntley, to pursue Bothwell and his followers with fire and sword.
		In the night of Feb. 7, 1592, he beset Murray's house, burnt it to the ground, and slew Murray himself; a young nobleman of the most promising virtues, and the very darling of the people.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poem/1580.html (281 words)

	The Bonny Earl of Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They have slain the Earl of Murray, And they layd him on the green.
		He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the ba'; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower among them a'.
		He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the glove; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he was the Queen's love!
	www.alansim.com /scohtml/sco071.html (129 words)

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		He was a braw gallant, and he played at the ball; and the bonny earl of Murray Was the flower amang them all.
		Murray refused to surrender; Huntly fired the house and all inside were forced out.
		Murray, waiting until the last moment, slipped out unnoticed and was making good his escape when someone noticed him because the top of his helmet was on fire.
	www.smoe.org /lists/joni/v2002.n217 (3852 words)

	Edward D. Ives / The Bonny Earl of Murray
		Edward D. Ives / The Bonny Earl of Murray
		The murder of the popular Earle of Moray in 1592 near Edinburgh was the stuff of which legends are made.
		This inviting volume explores that legend, relates details of the Huntly-Moray (Catholic-Protestant) feud, and traces the ballad of the slain "Bonny Earl" through its four centuries of growth and change.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s97/ives.html (203 words)

	Prepare Poetry eCard
		They hae slaine the earl of Murray, And hae layd him on the green.
		He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny earl of Murray, Oh!
		He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the gluve; And the bonny earl of Murray, Oh!
	www.poemhunter.com /ecard/1/prepare.asp?poem=36753 (128 words)

	Willie MacIntosh
		William, it is said, was killed at the castle of the Earl of Huntly in 1592 [?].
		The ballad on the event is evidently a fragment, but there are one or two versions of it.
		The Bonnie Earl of Murray, Child 181] Following the killing [...] in February, 1592, the MacIntoshes of Clan Chattan, intent on revenge, pillaged a castle and killed four men on an estate belonging to the Earl of Huntly, whom they held responsible for Murray's death.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/w/williema.html (647 words)

	The Bonny Earl o' Moray
		This ballad is Child Ballad #181 (The Bonny Earl of Murray).
		James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray (Lord Doune) was the son-in-law of the regent (also James Stewart).
		James VI of Scotland suspected Moray, had been involved with the Earl of Bothwell (Francis Stewart, nephew of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell who had wed Mary, Queen of Scots) in an attempt on the king's life.
	www.contemplator.com /scotland/moray.html (223 words)

	Posted 2/10/97
		Probably the all-time best-known mondegreen is the classic "Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear" (from the old hymn "Gladly the Cross I'd Bear"), but both popular idioms and rock music lyrics are mother lodes of the critters.
		A few days ago, I took the occasion of a reader's query about "for all intensive purposes" (which is, of course, a mangled rendition of "for all intents and purposes") to introduce the subject of "mondegreens." Mondegreens are humorous mishearings of popular phrases and song lyrics, so-named by writer Sylvia Wright in 1954.
		She had heard one stanza of the Scottish ballad ''The Bonny Earl of Murray" as "Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands, Oh where hae you been?, They hae slay the Earl of Murray, And Lady Mondegreen," and only much later realized that the last line was actually "And laid him on the green." No Lady Mondegreen.
	www.word-detective.com /back-e2.html (1830 words)

	botobp2
		On the bonnie, bonnie banks of the Virgio.
		And the quay it is all garnished with bonny lasses ‘round;
		While the bonny ship, the Diamond, goes a fishing for the whale.
	infohost.nmt.edu /~atrivitt/songbook/botobp.htm (890 words)

	A Collection of Ballads - Ballad IX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		untly had a commission to apprehend the Earl, who was in the disgrace of James VI.
		Huntly, as an ally of Bothwell, asked him to surrender at Donibristle, in Fife; he would not yield to his private enemy, the house was burned, and Murray was slain, Huntly gashing his face.
		Ramsay published the ballad in his TEA TABLE MISCELLANY, and it is often sung to this day.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/poetry/ACollectionofBallads/chap10.html (120 words)

	Bonny S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bight of Bonny 1: The '''Bight of ''' (formerly '''Bight of Biafra''') is a bay at t 5: Countries located at the Bight of Benny are Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guine
		James Bonny took her to New Providence (modern-day Nass 9: pregnant.
		The Bonny Earl of Murray 1: '''"The Bpnny Earl of Murray"''' is a popular ScotlandScotti 12: It is from the first verse of "The Bnny Earl of Murray" that the term mondegreen, mea
	www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/46739-bonny-s.html (580 words)

	§14. Funeral ballads. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Superstition, the other world, ghost-lore, find limited scope in English balladry.
		Two ballads of the sea, Bonnie Annie and Brown Robyn’s Confession, make sailors cast lots to find the “fey folk” in the ship, and so to sacrifice the victim.
		Commerce with the other world occurs in Thomas Rymer, derived from a romance, and in Tam Lin, said by Henderson to be largely the work of Burns.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/212/1714.html (539 words)

	The Child Ballads: 181. The Bonnie Earl o' Moray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I bade you bring him wi you, But forbade you him to slay.’ 181A.3 He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king!
		181A.4 He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a’.
		You might have taen the Earl o Murray, and saved his life too.’ 181B.8 ‘Her bread it’s to bake, her yill is to brew; My sister’s a widow, and sair do I rue.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/eng/child/ch181.htm (312 words)

	Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839 Table of Contents - Orpheus Cal-2, 1733
		Bonny Earl of Murray, The (t), or Song 4 (at)
		Corn Riggs Are Bonny (t), or Song 18 (at)
		Bonny Lass of Branksome, The (t), or Song 35 (at)
	www.colonialdancing.org /Easmes/TOC/St030895.htm (386 words)

	Find in a Library: The bonny Earl of Murray : the man, the murder, the ballad
		Find in a Library: The bonny Earl of Murray : the man, the murder, the ballad
		The bonny Earl of Murray : the man, the murder, the ballad
		Subjects: Moray, James Stewart, -- Earl of,
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/d9fac652bb441f9ea19afeb4da09e526.html (87 words)

	Homespun Humor Song lyrics can take on a new meaning By Linda Fink Special Writer, The Sun
		A Mondegreen, in case you’ve forgotten, is the mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric.
		The name was coined by writer Sylvia Wright and comes from the Scottish ballad The Bonny Earl of Murray.
		When she learned, years later, that what they really did was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, she was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism (a word not recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary and other snobs).
	www.sheridansun.com /News/2000/0719/Editorials/07.html (741 words)

	TermPapers-TermPapers.com - Dulce Et Decorum Est
		I considered myself an active participant in all of the group projects that I was a part of.
		For example, during the ballad presentations my group was extremely upset that we didn’t get our top choice, had to do “The Bonny Earl of Murray”.
		Everyone was complaining and we weren’t getting anything done, so I kind of became the leader, divided up the research, thought of a song to sing our ballad to, and encouraged all group members to participate in the singing of our ballad.
	www.termpapers-termpapers.com /dbs/b5/evj61.shtml (731 words)

	August 19 - Mondegreens and Star Trek
		For those of you who have not yet received the pamphlet (mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile), the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.
		As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this: Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands Oh where hae you been?
		When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.
	www.goatview.com /august19mondegreens.htm (735 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Take your pants down and make it happen
		A mondegreen is when you mishear a lyric in a song and even if the words seem a bit daft or total nonsense, they simply stay in your head and you always sing them that way.
		The term was invented in 1954 by a writer, Sylvia Wright, who described how she had misheard part of a Scottish ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray."
		Only later, much later, did she discover that the villains had slain the Earl of Murray -- and laid him on the green.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/showthread.php?t=58425 (841 words)

	Let's Communicate
		Funny you should ask!) Mondegreen is a coined word for a mishearing or misinterpretation of a word or phrase.
		It comes from a 1954 magazine article by Sylvia Wright, who told of hearing a Scottish ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray," that contained (she thought) the verse:
		She was never sure why poor Lady Mondegreen had to die along with the earl, then much later learned that the perpetrators had actually slain the Earl of Murray and LAID HIM ON THE GREEN.
	www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu /letscomm/9801.htm (723 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 1 Jun - Mondegreeniana
		They hae slain the Earl Amurry And Lady Mondegreen Which is the essayist Sylvia Wright's mishearing of "The Bonny Earl of Murray" (Child ballad #181) in her mother's reading from Percy's _Reliques_.
		She can be forgiven, for she was a child at the time.
		The name derives, we recall, from a mishearing of the lines They hae slain the Earl O'Murray And laid him on the green as...
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1998/1998AMW.html (1972 words)

	Dick Gaughan's Website - happy archive - 0207s
		Huntley (George Gordon, 1st marquess of Huntley, 1562-1626) burns the Earl's castle of Dunibrissel in Fife and later that day fatally stabs James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray and Lord Doune 2/7/1592
		(Per Peter Buchan: James VI, being jealous of an attachment betwixt his Queen, Anne of Denmark, and the Earl of Murray, the handsomest man of his time, prevailed with the deceitful Marquis of Huntly, his enemy, to murder him; and by a writing under his own hand, promised to save him harmless.
		We hope to be up to speed on the facts in a year or two. His best guess is that Jim was born 1567. He became Earl of Murray by marriage in January 1581 [age 14].
	www.dickalba.demon.co.uk /happy/02_feb/0207s.htm (192 words)

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