280. The Beggar-Laddie.
P. 116. Motherwell sent a copy of C to Sharpe with a letter from Paisley, 8th October, 1825, and printed C in an article on “Scottish Song” in the Paisley Magazine, 1828, p. 621, in both cases with two or three insignificant variations. He mentions in the latter another version in which the hero is called King James, in accordance with the vulgar traditions concerning the Gudeman o Ballengoich.
In Findlay’s MSS, I, 144, there are five unimportant stanzas, nearer to D than to the other versions, and having, like D, the title ‘The Gaberlunzie Laddie.’
286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity).
P. 137. B. Mr Macmath has a copy of ‘The Goulden Vanitee’ in the handwriting of Peter Scott Fraser which is identical with that printed by Logan except that it has Vanitee for Vanitie in 13 and 92, Countree in 42, they row’d in 61, Oh! in 81, and Eck iddle dee (not du) in the burden. Mr. Macmath notes that B was printed by Mrs. Gordon, in Christopher North, a Memoir of John Wilson, Edinburgh, 1862, II, 317 ff., in a form identical with that in Mr. Fraser’s MS. copy [except for one variation (they’ve row’d for they row’d in 61)].
287. Captain Ward and the Rainbow.
P. 135. A copy taken down from the lips of an old Suffolk (Monk Soham) laborer was contributed by Archdeacon Robert Hindes Groome to Suffolk Notes and Queries in the Ipswich Journal [1877-78], and is repeated in Two Suffolk Friends, 1895, p. 46. W. Macmath.
291. Child Owlet.
P. 156. Mr Macmath has called my attention to a ballad on the story of Child Owlet by William Bennet in The Dumfries Monthly Magazine, II, 402, 1826. This piece, called ‘Young Edward,’ “is founded upon a tradition still current in the district in which Morton Castle is situated.” Its quality is that of the old-magazine ballad.