Noreen,

    Thank you so much!!! This is awesome! I am doing some research on the ballad "Lord Lovel". This piece is the missing link, that is, it represents the original folk tradition. In in other words, "Lord Lovel" is really "Lord Donegal" in terms of its storyline and so forth.

Viscount Lovel was a Yorkist sympathizer (mid-1600's) who dissappeared after the battle of Stokes and there is documentatiion that he went to Scotland where he was received by the king. Check out Childs manuscripts 75A and 75E. The "high chancel" or "high chappel" (tower) and "choir" as burial plots refer to the 1547 fire at St Mary's church, set by the English, in which all that remained was the tower and choir. None of the other copies of this "folk song" have these references. That is because "Lord Lovel" didn't start out as a folk song. It's an artful composition.