Chevy Chase
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Chevy Chase. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
chev’i chas, a famous old English ballad of border warfare. The incidents recounted are not regarded as historical, although the story is probably founded on some actual encounter between Percy and Douglas. It has been confounded with the Scotch ballad, The Battle of Otterbourne, as the events celebrated are similar. There are two versions of the ballad. The older one is sometimes called The Hunting of the Cheviot. Both versions may be found in Percy's Reliques. The name Chevy Chase has been variously explained, as a corruption of a French word meaning a raid, and as derived from the name Cheviot Hills , and meaning the Cheviot hunting ground. See Ballad ; Cheviot Hills The old song of Chevy Chase is the favorite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all of his works.--Addison, Spectator.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of a celebrated British Border ballad, which is probably founded on some actual encounter which took place between its the heroes, Percy and Douglas, although it are not hisincidents mentioned in torical. There are two versions of the ballad bearing the name of "Chevy Chase," an older one, originally ally called "The Hunting of the Cheviot," and a more modern one. From the fact that the older version is mentioned in the "Complaynt of Scotland," written in 1548, it is clear that it was known in age of Scotland before that time. The to the more modern version is believed be not later than the reign of Charles II. This is the version which forms the subject of the critique by Addison in Nos. 70 and 74 of the "Spectator."