JAMIE DOUGLAS #A.# ‘Lord Douglas,’ or, ‘The Laird of Blackwood,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 93. #B.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 387. #C.# ‘Lady Douglas and Blackwood,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 207, I, 103. #D.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 107. #E.# ‘The Laird o Blackwood,’ Kinloch MSS, VII, 127; Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 58. #F.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 507. #G.# ‘Lord Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 345. #H.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 297. #I.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 500. #J.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 299. #K.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 302. #L.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, II, 4. #M.# Herd’s MSS, I, 54; Herd’s Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 144. #N.# ‘Lord Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. v, the last three stanzas. #O.# ‘Jamie Douglas,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, IX, one stanza. This ballad first appeared in print in the second edition of Herd’s Scottish Songs, 1776, but only as a fragment of five stanzas. Pinkerton repeats three stanzas from Herd, very slightly “polished by the editor,” Tragic Ballads, 1781, pp. 83, 119. A stall-copy, says Motherwell, was printed in 1798, under the title of ‘Fair Orange Green.’ #A# and #C# were used by Aytoun for the copy given in his second edition, 1859, I, 133, and #D# for Part Fourth of Chambers’s compilation, Scottish Ballads, p. 157. The “traditionary version,” in thirty-four stanzas, given in the Appendix to Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. v (see his Introduction, p. lxiii, note 5), is made up, all but the fifth stanza and the three last, from #F#-#J# and #O#: see note to #N#. Lady Barbara Erskine, eldest daughter of John, Earl of Mar, was married to James, second Marquis of Douglas, near the end of the year 1670. The marriage did not prove to be happy, and the parties were formally separated in 1681. They had had one child, James, Earl of Angus, and he having been killed in battle in the Netherlands in 1692, the Marquis of Douglas married again, and had two sons and a daughter. The second of the sons was Archibald, the third marquis, and first and only duke of Douglas.