You might find this interesting, Susan. My 1856 copy of Bell has deleted 'Mr. J.H. Dixon informs me that he has seen a black-letter copy of it, of about the date of Charles II.'and replaced it with 'but there are no means of determining its date'. And its source, Dixon, doesn't have anything about it. Hmmm!

I'm afraid my specialism is in Peter Buchan, but as I said, at that time, following Percy>>Jamieson/Scott they were all mixing and matching/collating and composing from scratch to some extent. Motherwell is generally regarded as the most reliable but even he admitted to the whole range of interference in his early works, bragged about it even. Very little is said about George Kinloch but he was a definite member of the gang.

Regarding Percy, was he not one of the noble Northumberland Percy family then?

De Laval/Lovell. I think I have a copy of DeBrette's in the loft but surely it should be online somewhere.