Anyone have any indication how this song entered the revival?
From printed sources, or recordings?

Keefer lists publication: Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p128

There is a 1962 recording by John Laurie in a collection THE JUPITER
BOOK OF BALLADS (Jill Balcon; Isla Cameron; V.C. (Victor Clinton) Clinton-Baddeley ; Pauline Letts; John Laurie; Osian Ellis) released
by JUPITER Records (UK) and FOLKWAYS (US).

Parcel of Rugues is 1973.

Any revival recordings prior to the Jupiter?

Thanks, Thomas.