213 a. Title of #B#. Not Lochroyan in Herd, I, 144, but, both in title
and text, Lochvoyan. In Herd, II, 60, the title has Lochroyan; the word
does not occur in so much of the text as remains. Printed Lochroyan by
Herd, and probably Lochroyan was intended in I, 144, as the alternative,
though the last letter but one is indistinctly written, and may be read
_e_. #B# came to Herd “by post from a lady in Ayrshire (?), name
unknown.” Also, No 38, #A a#, No 51, #A a#; No 161, #B a#; No 220, #A#.
Note (in pencil, and indistinct as to the place), Herd’s MSS, I, 143.
215 a. A part of this ballad is introduced into two versions of ‘The
Mother’s Malison,’ No 216; see IV, 186. See also ‘Fair Janet,’ No 64,
#A# 13, #D# 5, #G# 5.