I just have this which I found on the web awhile back. It's like a blurb:

Oral Tradition in England in the Eighteenth Century: 'Lord Lovel.'."  Because In comparison with Scotland, little is known of early English ballad tradition. This chapter begins by rehearsing the numbers: "Of Child's 305 ballads 158 are printed in Scottish versions only, whereas only 61 ballads lack Scottish versions, and 39 of these are the so-called Outlaw Ballads, whose ballad status is questioned by Child himself." The greatest period of song collecting in England occurred just after Child published, so the heavily Scottish character of his collection is partly a matter of chance. But it is also true that 18th c. ballad collectors found less material in England. After the publication of Thomas Percy's (rather adulterated) Reliques, he received more than 30 additional ballads from correspondents, only 7 of which were from England. However, several of these are excellent texts that appear to come from a genuinely oral tradition. Andersen here discusses one of them, "Lord Lovel," a ballad which has been often maligned for a lack of story and an excess of sentimentality. Andersen argues that despite these flaws the ballad is "genuine," not a hack-job of pasted together commonplaces, as has been suggested. (Others have argued for its rescue on the basis of Jeannie Robertson's grand recording, which lends it a dignity hard to discover in text alone.)