[I]. 'Johnie Buneftan,' Kinloch MSS, VII, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49.
[J]. Kinloch MSS, VII, 40, 42, 46, 49.
[K]. 'Johnie, the Little Scot,' Kinloch MSS, I, 311.
[L]. 'Johnnie Scott,' Campbell MSS, I, 57.
[M]. 'Lord Johnnie Scott,' Campbell MSS, II, 335.
[N]. 'Lord John,' Buchan's Gleanings, p. 122.
[O]. 'Johnie Scot,' communicated by Mr Macmath.
[P]. Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 11.
A was No 2 of the fifteen ballads in William Tytler's lost Brown MS.: Nichols's Illustrations, VII, 176. There is a copy of A in the Abbotsford MS., "Scottish Songs," fol. 24, with many wilful alterations and a few readings from tradition. The ballad printed in Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 204, is a compound of C, D, E, and the one in Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 77, is made up from I, J, "recited versions obtained in the north and west" of Scotland, with some slight changes.
The story of '[Willie o Winsbury],' No 100, has considerable resemblance to that of 'Johnie Scot,' but Willie's extreme beauty moves the king, the lady's father, to offer his daughter to him in marriage, without a combat. Mrs Brown's version of 'Willie o Douglas Dale,' No 101, A, begins with the first stanza of her version of 'Johnie Scot,' A. So does 'Young Betrice,' another ballad of hers, No 5 of William Tytler's MS.: