The first of the related threads cited at the top of this thread answers most of the questions asked here. See posts by Bruce O, Malcolm Douglas and myself. I should point out that the Ballad Index reference to Rober Cinnamond's having sung this song, or even a fragment of it, is an error. Cinnanond's "When I was a weaver" is part of an entirely separate song, not The weaver and the factory maid.