Brewer's: Goodman of Ballengeich

The assumed name of James V. of Scotland when he made his disguised visits through the country districts around Edinburgh and Stirling, after the fashion of Haroun-al-Raschid, Louis XI., etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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