All the editions have Boyd. It appears, however, from ver. 287, that Boyd was left in the town:
‘Der wicht,’ he said, ‘der God, sen at thou knew
‘Gud Robert Boid, quhar at thou can him se.’
Besides, the name Byrd occurs B. VIII. 233, where the person thus denominated is conjoined with Boyde:
Boyde, Bercla, Byrd, and Lauder, that was wycht.
In Edit. 1594, 1620, and 1648, this is Baird, apparently the ancestor of the Bairds of Newbyth, descended from Baird of Auchmedden, a very ancient family. To this family, as proprietors in Lanarkshire, Fergus, John, and Robert Bard, mentioned in Ragman Roll, are supposed to have belonged. V. Nisbet’s Rem. p. 42. 46. Robert de Boyd was ancestor of the family of Kilmarnock.
At the Roddis thai mak full mony ane,
Quhilk worthy ar, thocht landis haiff thai nane.—V. 403.
This refers to the knights of St. John then made at Rhodes.