Steve,

Buchan said Child published 7 Nicol ballads but I'll take your word on it :)

Nicol's version was published by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe with mostly minor changes in 1839 from another MS of the same ballad in his transcript. He edited out Nicol's famous line, "Then he lifted up her fine Holland sark," in the penultimate stanza. Also Sir Walter Scott had a copy of the ballad MS in his collection of Nicols ballads he called "North Country Ballads."

Richie