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THE CRUEL MOTHER.
[A]. Herd's MSS, I, 132, II, 191. Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, 1776, II, 237.
[B]. a. 'Fine Flowers in the Valley,' Johnson's Museum, p. 331. b. Scott's Minstrelsy, III, 259 (1803).
C. 'The Cruel Mother,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 161.
[D]. a. Kinloch MSS, V, 103. b. 'The Cruel Mother,' Kinloch, Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 46.
[E]. 'The Cruel Mother.' a. Motherwell's MS., p. 390. b. Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 33.
[F]. 'The Cruel Mother.' a. Buchan's MSS, II, 98. b. Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 222.
[G]. Notes and Queries, 1st S., VIII, 358.
[H]. 'The Cruel Mother,' Motherwell's MS., p. 402.