Thanks Lighter,

In regards to the Guests post 8:50 AM, Kyle Davis Jr. writes this in More TBVa, 1960:

Later Scottish tradition and some of the ballads themselves have identified the lady as the wife of the mid-seventeenth-century Earl of Cassilis, apparently without any foundation whatever-- except that the first line of some texts of the ballad have the gypsies come to the "castle-gate."

Do you agree?

Richie