About this book
Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Ancient and Modern. The ballads and songs in this section are from the eighteenth century and earlier, and mostly by unknown authors. - Summary by Philip Benson
Chapters (45)
1Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife
2A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend
3The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field
4A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage
5The Blessed Conscience
6The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen
7James I. and the Loin of Beef
8Warrikin Fair
9Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell
10Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson
11The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town
12Townley's Ghost
13The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter
14Lancashire May Songs
15Wassail Song
16The Liverpool Tragedy
17Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt
18The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman
19Careless Content by John Byrom
20The Frog and the Crow
21Dick o' Stanley Green
22Blakeley Courtship
23The Lancashire Miller
24Contentment by John Byrom
25Sir Gualter
26The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh
27Warrington Ale
28Droylsden Wakes Song
29Radcliffe Otter Hunt
30The Owdham Recruit
31The Cocky Moor Snake
32Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble]
33The Burnley Haymakers
34The Praise of Lancashire Men
35Will, the Ferryman
36The Lovers' Leap
37Death of an Old Huntsman
38Handloom Versus Powerloom
39Gorton Town
40The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament
41The Middleton Overseer and the Madman
42Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side
43Grimshaw's Factory Fire
44The Bonny Gray
45The Lancashire Witches
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