A few detached ballads collected by Dr Alexander Laing of Newburgh-on-Tay. About 1873.
Findlay MSS. Two volumes, the first (only) containing several ballads and many fragments gathered from recitation by Rev. William Findlay, of Saline, Fifeshire, 1865-85. In the hands of the collector.
Macmath MS. Ballads and songs recently collected by Mr Macmath. In the possession of the collector.
“Common Place Book filled with a collection of Old Ballads of the 17th century,” a MS. formerly belonging to J. Payne Collier, now in the British Museum. Contains thirty ballads written in a forged hand of the 19th century, some of the pieces being also spurious. Nos 8 C, 137, 168 are in this MS.
Communications, noted in their places, of a single ballad or of several ballads, taken down or remembered by friends or correspondents in Europe and America, and several taken down by myself. [Child MSS, Harvard College Library.]
PRINTED SOURCES.
A Gest of Robyn Hode. Fragment without printer’s name or date, but of the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century: the eleventh and last piece in a volume the other contents of which are nine pieces printed by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar—three of these purporting to be printed at Edinburgh in 1508—and one other piece the printer of which is also unascertained. Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh.
A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, etc. Wynken de Worde, London, n. d. (1492-1534). Library of the University of Cambridge.
Three fragments (one of which was attributed to Wynken de Worde by Ritson). Douce, Bodleian Library.
A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode, etc. London, Wyllyam Copland, n. d. (1549-69). British Museum.