[B]. 'Burd Helen,' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, II, 376; 26 stanzas.
[C]. 'Fair Annie,' Motherwell's MS., p. 351; 33 stanzas.
[D]. Herd, The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 307; 8 stanzas.
[E]. 'Lady Jane,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 20, Jamieson's Popular Ballads, II, 371; 20 stanzas.
[F]. 'Fair Annie,' Motherwell's MS., p. 385, Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 327; 32 stanzas.
[G]. Communicated by Miss Reburn; 5 stanzas.
[H]. Communicated by Dr Thomas Davidson; 2 stanzas.
[I]. 'Fair Annie,' Kinloch MSS, I, 155; 45 stanzas.
[J]. 'The Fause Lord,' Buchan's MSS, I, 66; 65 stanzas.
The fragment D, printed in 1769, antedates the committing to writing of any of the other versions. E was taken down as early as 1783. A and B are from the beginning of this century. A was obtained "chiefly from the recitation of an old woman," but we are not informed who supplied the rest. Herd's fragment, D, furnished stanzas 2-6, 12, 17, 19. A doubt may be hazarded whether stanzas 8-10 came from the old woman. I is a combination of three recited versions, and J, perhaps a transcript of a stall-copy, is, like many of Buchan's ballads, extended to twice the length of genuine versions by tedious, sometimes nauseous, amplification and interpolation.