Note 1. From Sharpe’s Ballad Book, 1823. Tradition related that these young ladies, daughters of countrymen of Perth, to escape the plague which raged in 1645, built themselves a bower at a place called Burn-Braes, where they retired. After living there some time, they caught the infection from a young gentleman who brought their provisions and who was said to have been in love with both ladies. They were buried at Dranoch-haugh, near the river Almond. [back]
