I don't want to mislead your; this is s long shot. Many song and instrumental tunes were composed for private entertainments of some nobleman. As such they were somtines copied into a manuscript, but often weren't of sufficient popularity to justify publication and were never printed. There is no compendium of unpublished tunes, so the


probabliilty is that I won't be able to identify the tune.

Have you learned "Hallow my Fancy"? This tune was "lost" until I found it in the Balcarries MS. The song for it, from Bishop Percy's folio MS (otherwise unknown), is given in the Scarce Songs 2 file at www.erols.com/olsonw. Thanks to a Scottish lutenist, the tune is also given there in modern music notation.

   
I suspect that the Balcarries Ms has received little attention because of the fact that it is primarily Scots tunes in a MS that's not in Scotland (John Rylands Library, Manchester).

I heard about a month ago (Memorial Day to be exact) that a woman expert on old music, living near me, had a complete set of the tunes in the Balcarries MS, but I foolishly forgot to ask her if they were translated into modern notation, or were in the original lute notation.

What source are you working from, Darsie's selection in tablature?