Steve, that's the one I was telling you about!

I think the most influential of all the texts is H, put out by the short lived Percy Society. Also a London broadside, I believe, and widely distributed. 1846. This is the classic version. Pay attention to the intro:

"The ballad of Lord Lovel is from a broadside printed in the metropolis during the present year. A version may be seen in                     Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, where it is given as taken down from the recitation of a lady in Roxburghshire. Mr. M. A. Richardson, the editor of the Local Historian's Table Book, says that the ballad is ancient, and the hero is traditionally believed to have been one of the family of Lovele, or Delavalle, of Northumberland: the London printers say that their copy is very old. The two last verses are common to many ballads. From the tune being that to which the old ditty of Johnnie o' Cockelsmuir is sung, it is not improbable that the story is of Northumbrian or Border origin."

Really?