#C.# ‘Katherine Jaffarie,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 30, Abbotsford. #D.# ‘The Laird of Laminton,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 3, Abbotsford. #E.# ‘Cathrine Jaffray,’ Skene MS., p. 81. #F.# ‘Catherine Janferry,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 315. #G.# ‘Catharine Jaffery,’ Maidment’s North Countrie Garland, 1824, p. 34. #H.# Kinloch MSS, V, 313. #I.# Motherwell’s MS., p. 327. #J.# ‘Catherine Johnson,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 75; ‘Catherine Johnstone,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, 1827, p. 225. #K.# ‘Loch-in-var,’ Buchan’s Gleanings, 1825, p. 74. #L.# Macmath MS., p. 72, two stanzas. The ballad was first published by Sir Walter Scott, under the title ‘The Laird of Laminton,’ in the first edition of the Minstrelsy, 1802, I, 216. This copy was fashioned by the editor from two in Herd’s MSS, #A#, #B#. In later editions of the Minstrelsy (III, 122, 1833), the ballad was given, with the title Katharine Janfarie, “in a more perfect state, from several recited copies.” Twelve stanzas out of twenty-one, however, are repeated from the first edition. Much the larger part of what is not in Herd is taken from #C#; the name Lochinvar is adopted from #D#.[116] A few peculiar readings may be from copies now not known, or may be the editor’s. The ballad in Christie, II, 16, is Scott’s later copy, with the omission of the 16th stanza. That in Nimmo’s Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale, p. 141, is #J#, from Motherwell’s Minstrelsy. A Scots laird wooes a Scots maid and wins her favor. An English laird or lord, very liberal as to gowd and gear, comes to court the same lass, gains the consent of her friends (who had at least made no opposition to the earlier suit), and sets the wedding-day. The first lover comes to the wedding, backed by a strong body of armed men, whom he keeps out of sight. He is asked why he has come; it is for a sight of the bride or a word with her, or to take a glass of wine with her or the bridegroom, and this had he will go away. Getting near the bride on this pretence, he swings her on to his horse and is off. A bloody fight follows, but the bride is not retrieved. Englishmen may take warning by this not to seek wives in Scotland; it will always end in their being tricked and balked.