Percy MS., British Museum, Additional MSS, 27879, c. 1650.
Philiphaugh MS. of No 305, Edinburgh, 1689-1708(?). Not now accessible: printed by Aytoun. A supposed transcript extant among the Philiphaugh papers is not older than 1848. (V, 191.)
Fly-leaf of a volume printed at Edinburgh, 1670. Laing MSS, Div. II, 358, Library of the University of Edinburgh. (Fragment, V, 202 b.)
Elizabeth Cochrane’s Songbook, Collection of Songs English and Scots, 1730(?). Harvard College Library. (Nos 5, E, I, 76; 76, A, II, 215; 144, B, III, 195; 293, A, V, 160.)
Mrs Cockburn’s MS. of No 305, used by Scott, and described by him as “apparently of considerable antiquity.” Edinburgh. Not now accessible. (V, 191.)
Bishop Percy’s papers. MS. copies of ballads from Rev. P. Parsons of Wye, Miss Fisher of Carlisle, Principal Robertson of Edinburgh, the Dean of Derry, George Paton of Edinburgh, Rev. Robert Lambe of Norham, Roger Halt, the Duchess Dowager of Portland, and others. In all about 33. 1766-80. Harvard College Library.
David Herd’s MSS, two volumes folio, the second volume duplicating a portion of the first. 1776. British Museum, Additional MSS, 22311-12. (See Mr H. L. D. Ward’s Catalogue of Romances, I, 531.[130])
MSS of Mrs Brown of Falkland. 1783-1801.
(1) Jamieson-Brown MS., mostly taken down from the mouth of Mrs Brown by Professor Scott of Aberdeen about 1783. Laing MSS, Library of the University of Edinburgh.
(2) William Tytler’s Brown MS. Fifteen ballads, with the airs: thirteen being revisions of pieces in (1). Presented by Mrs Brown to W. Tytler in 1783. Described by Anderson in a letter to Percy, Nichols’s Illustrations, VII, 176 ff. The MS. has disappeared, but, excepting one, all the pieces it contained are substantially known from (1) or other sources.