DM64ballads(001) NOT 17C?
CATALOGUE Age of Man.
###The age of man, displayed in the several changes of human life. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *pEB75.P4128C no.1  A song "In prime of years, when I was young". Houghton copy = 24 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN1919.

NOTE Percy no 1. Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(002) 
CATALOGUE Amorous Lady's Garland.
###The amorous lady's garland. Or the handsome butcher of St. James's Market. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Young men and pretty maidens, ". In four columns separated by ornamental rules; the title and two woodcuts are above the first two columns. Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol. 1 ESTCT205868.

NOTE This was reprinted through the century; a Bow version is the Percy Collection number 2.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(003)
CATALOGUE Bite Upon the Miser: Or, A Trick upon the Parson by a Sailor.
###Bite upon the miser; or, a trick upon the parson by the sailor.  titleend London: Printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(222) British Library, C.20.c.30(5) Note: Cropped: lacking the imprint. Dropped type at head of fourth column  Verse. "Young women, if you draw near a while, "  This edition has a semi colon after miser and a single illustration. ESTCT22861.

NOTE 1765?; 1800; Also, eight page versions: Coventry; Hull; Newcastle; Worcester, Bristol;. some with additional material.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(004)
CATALOGUE Blink-ey'd Cobler.
###The blink ey'd cobler. Tune of The hog tub.  titleend London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.4  "All you that delight in merriment, ". Publication place and date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 26x35cm. ESTCN15229.

NOTE: Percy no 4. Four other single sheet London versions.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(005) 
CATALOGUE Blind Beggar of Bethnal-Green.
###The rarest old ballad that ever was seen, of the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green. titleend London: printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. British Library, L.R.271.a.2/1.2(18)  "It is of a blind beggar that long lost his sight, ". The title is set largely in roman; the last woodcut depicts five people "Bednal Green" used throughout; none of the woodcuts are cracked. ESTCT46298.

NOTE First recorded by Coles, 1670; also Milbourn, 1695? and Onley, 1729. Other London listings. Also, Dicey, Northampton, 1730= Percy No 6. Newcastle, Edinburgh. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(006) 
CATALOGUE Bride's Burial.
###The bride's burial. Tune of The lady's fall. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard Bow Lane, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Come mourn, come mourn with me, ". In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. British Library: Rox. III(410) (Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves) (Verified) Cambridge University Library. ESTCT029599.

NOTE first recorded in the early 17th century. Several London listings including Percy no 7. Also, Newcastle, 1730?; Edinburgh, 1776?; Aberdeen 8p.; and Alnwick 8 p., both with additions. 

NORTH AMERICA: 
The bride's burial. Printed and sold in New London [Conn. by Timothy Green], [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 32 x 17cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1765. Not in Evans. Date of publication suggested by Johnson. Johnson, H.A. New London, 790.  ESTCW33501.

2. The Bride's burial. [New London, Conn.]: Sold [by Timothy Green] at the printing office, New London, [1767?] Details: 1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); ??. Connecticut College Library.  Relief cut (memento mori; Reilly 33) at head; text in two columns. Not in Evans. Johnson, H.A. New London, 824.  ESTCW35112.


DM64ballads(007)
CATALOGUE Beautiful Shepherdess of Arcadia.
###The beautiful shepherdess of Arcadia. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "There was a shepherd's daughter.". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol. 1 ESTCT205875.

NOTE Thackeray and Gilberston versions survive; London, 1765?; Tewksbury, [1775]? of 8p. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.
 

DM64ballads(008) 
CATALOGUE Bailiff's Daughter of Islington.
###True love requited; or the bailiff's daughter of Islington. Tune. I have a good wife at home. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1750?]. 1 sheet; 1/2? Verse. "There was a youth, and a well beloved youth, ". British Library: L.R.31.b.19(109) (Cropped, first line of text missing) ESTCT051890.

NOTE A Bow version is Percy number 9. Other single sheet London versions.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(009)
CATALOGUE Baffled Knight.
###The baffled knight: or, the lady's policy. titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 10. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.10.  A song "There was a knight was drunk with wine, "  ESTCN15332.

NOTE Percy no 10. Also, single sheet Durham, I. Lane, [1750?] as The lady's policy; or, the baffled knight. Worcester, [1765?] is an 8p. version. Also, London?, 1750? and 1790? are single sheet.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(010) 
CATALOGUE Broken Contract.
###The broken contract: or, the ruin'd virgin's complaint.  titleend [London]: Sold in Bow Church Yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.12.  A song "You pretty maidens all I pray give ear". Not in Foxon; Houghton copy, 24.5x36cm. ESTCN16382.

NOTE Percy no. 12. Several London. Also, Preston and Warrington both 8p. with additions.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(011)
CATALOGUE Bristol Bridegroom.
###The Bristol bridegroom: or, the ship carpenter's love to the merchant's daughter. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.13.  Sometimes attributed to Laurence Price.  Verse "You loyal lovers all, draw near, /A true relation you shall hear". Publication date from Houghton; Houghton copy: 23.5 x 36.5 cm. ESTCN15361.

NOTE: Percy no 13. Also, Newcastle, [1750?]; Banbury, 1785?; Canterbury, [1780?]; Worcester; Wotton-under Edge; Tewksbury, 8p.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Bristol bridegroom. To which is added A mother's farewell, and Happiness in death. New Haven  printed. s.n., [1794] 12 p.  Evans 0; Lowens, I. Songsters, 81 Not on Readex; Not at AAS; copy at RPB.  ESTCW1806.


DM64ballads(012)
CATALOGUE Barbara Allen's Cruelty.
###Barbara Allen's cruelty; or, the young man's tragedy. To the tune of Barbara Allen.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.14  "In Scarlet Town, where I was bound". Houghton copy = 21.5x37cm.; not in Foxon. 
ESTCN15486.

NOTE Percy no. 14. Also, Newcastle; Edinburgh. First recorded version printed by Brooksby, c1688-92.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(013) 
CATALOGUE Beggar Wench of Hull.
###The merchant's son, and the beggar wench of Hull. titleend  Northampton: printed by William Dicey: and sold by Mr. Eustace, Oxford; Matth. Dagnell, Ailesbury, and at his shop in Leighton; P. Stevens, Bicester, T. Williams, Tring; A. Thorp; St. Alban's; [and 1 in Woburn, 1 in Cambridge, 1 in Derby, and 1 in St. Ives, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.17.  Verse "You gallants all, I pray draw near".  At head of title: Numb. 1. Houghton copy = 22.5 x 35.5 cm. ESTCN3876. 

NOTE Percy no 17. Percy No 18 is Bow, 1760? Also, London, 1750?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(014)
CATALOGUE Berkshire Lady.
###The Berkshire lady in four parts.  titleend  [London]: Printed in Bow Church Yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.16 Verse "Batchelors of e'ery station, ". In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules. Here the woodcuts are firstly Cupid hovering near a woman under a tree, and secondly a woman talking to two men outdoors. ESTCT205880. 

NOTE Percy No 16. Percy No 15 is London, Stonecutter streets. Several other London listings. Also, Dudley, 1800; Also, Newcastle 8p.; Tewksbury 8p; Worcester, 8p.; Edinburgh.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Berkshire lady. [Philadelphia?: s.n.], Printed in the year 1790. Details: 8 p. ill. (woodcut); 12mo.Free Library of Philadelphia Shelfmark: ROS 144  With a woodcut of a ship on titlepage.  Bristol, B7314.  Shipton & Mooney, 45825.  Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 144.  ESTCW42398.


DM64ballads(015) 
CATALOGUE Berkshire Tragedy.
###The Berkshire trgedy [sic], or, the Wittam miller, with an account of his murdering his sweetheart, &c. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, [1780?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Young men and maidens all give ear, ". In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules. In this issue the "tragedy" is incorrectly spelt and there is an imprint. British Library: L.R.31.b.19(289) (Cut up into several pieces and pasted to blank leaves) (Verified) Cambridge University Library (Mutilated, the final stanza and the imprint affected). ESTC  t021547.

NOTE Several London. Also, Banbury. Also, York, 8p. and Edinburgh 8p. Both the latter are printed by John Keed, who appears nowhere else in ESTC.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(016) 
CATALOGUE Bateman's Tragedy.
###A godly warning to all maidens. By the example of God's judgments shewed on Jerman's wife of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child bed, was born away, and was never heard of after. To the tune of, The lady's fall.  titleend London: printed, and sold by William Dicey and Company in Bow Church Yard and at their warehouse in Northampton, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.20  A song "You dainty dames so finely fram'd". Also published with the titles 'Bateman's tragedy' and 'Young Bateman's ghost'. ESTCN8079.

NOTE Percy no 20. Also, Aldermary and several London single sheet. Also, Banbury; Coventry; Newcastle. See Histories for 24p versions.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. Young Bateman. [New London, Conn.]: Printed and sold [by Timothy Green?] in New London, [1771?] 1 sheet: ill. (relief cuts); ?. CtNLC.  Connecticut College Library Shelfmark: Bdsd.S.PR1194.Y6 Connecticut College Library Shelfmark: Bdsd.S.PR1194.Y6  Verse of thirty one numbered stanzas; first line: You dainty dames, so kindly fram'd. Imprint date suggested by Johnson. Timothy Green was the only printer active at New London in 1771. Relief cuts flanking title; text in three columns. Not in Evans. Johnson, H.A. New London, 931.  ESTCW35096.

2. Bateman's tragedy: being a warning to all maiden's, by the example of God's judgments shewed on Jerman's wife, of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child bed, was borne away, and never heard of afterwards. [Boston]: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 28 x 22 cm. Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: You dainty dames, so finely fram'd. American Antiquarian Society copies bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 58, and v. II, no. 63, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924. Text in three columns; printed area measures 23.8 x 18.5 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 13.  Not on Readex; BDSDS. 1810 two copies (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(017) 
CATALOGUE Bonny Milk-Maid.
###The bonny milk maid. titleend London?, [1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Manchester, Chetham's Library H.P.268  A song "Ye nymphs and gods, ". In two columns in the right half of the sheet with the title and woodcut in the left half; the columns are not separated by rules. ESTCT205929.

NOTE Also, Coventry, 1800?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(018) 
CATALOGUE Bloody Gardener.
###The bloody gardener's cruelty; or, the shepherd's daughter betray'd. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Come all you constant lovers, and to me lend an ear, ". In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. British Library: Rox. III(392) (Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves) (Verified) Cambridge University Library. North America (Verified) Houghton Library ESTCT022910.

NOTE Percy no 20 is Powell, Stonecutter Street, London. Several London listings. Also, Tewkesbury, 8p. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(019)
CATALOGUE Batchelor's Resolution.
###The batchelor's resolution, or, the sweet single life. titleend [London?, 1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/4. Cambridge University Library Madden ballads, vol. 1. A slip song "O some they will say that I am a bondsman, ". ESTCT197922.

NOTE No other copies located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(020) 
CATALOGUE Bristol Garland.
###The Bristol garland. In four parts. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.23 Manchester, Chetham's Library H.P.316  Verse "A merchant's son of worthy fame/ From the towu [sic] of Bristol came". Publication date from Houghton; Houghton copy: 23.5 x 35.5 cm. ESTCN15329.

NOTE Percy No 23. Also, London, 1760? There are eight page versions that may have different texts.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(021) 
CATALOGUE Butcher's Daughter's Policy.
###The butcher's daughter's policy: or, the lustful lord well fitted. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard. London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.24  Verse "I pray now draw near, all you that love fun". 22.5 x 36.5 cm. ESTCN15277.

NOTE Percy no 24. Several London listings, including Aldermary 1760. Also, Edinburgh, 1760?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(022)
CATALOGUE Bite Upon Bite.
###Bite upon bite. Or, the miser outwitted by the country lass.  titleend London: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, [1750?]. 1 sheet; 1/2? In verse. "You pretty young maidens, I'd have you draw near."  British Library: L.R.31.b.19(264) ESTCT022859.

NOTE Percy No 25 is London, Bow. Several London. Also, Newcastle 8p.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(023)
CATALOGUE Captain Hind's Progress and Ramble.
###Capt. Hind's progress and ramble. Tune of Robin Hood revived.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.29  A song "There's many a comical story you know". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 25.5 x 38 cm. ESTCN1921. 

NOTE Percy No. 29. Another London, 1760? listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(024)
CATALOGUE Crafty Plowman's Garland.
###The crafty ploughman's garland: or, the young farmer's policy, to gain a fair lady.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the pinting office [sic] in Bow church yard, London, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.30  A song "Attend now young lovers wherever you be". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 24.5 x 38 cm.  ESTCN1938.

NOTE Percy no 30. Also, London, 1775? Also, Newcastle, with songs added.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(025) 
CATALOGUE Captain Ward and the Rainbow.
###A famous sea fight, between Captain Ward and the Rainbow titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Strike up ye lusty gallants, ". In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. In this edition the final line of the first column of verse is "The sixth of January, " and the Aldermary Church yard imprint does not include "Bow Lane". Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol. 2 ESTCT206190.

NOTE Percy nos 31 (Northampton, Dicey, 1735?) and 32 (Bow, 1760?). Several other London listings. Also, Banbury. Also, Glasgow 8p. 

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. Captain Ward, the pirate. An account of his famous fight with the Rainbow ship of war. United States: s.n, [not before 1775 and not after 1810]1 sheet: ill. (relief cuts); 35 x 19 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775  Verse of 108 lines; first line: Strike up you brave & lusty gallants. Imprint dates suggested by typography. Text in two columns separated by ornaments; relief cuts of two ships at head; printed area measures 29.8 x 15.6 cm. Not in Evans.  ESTCW33511.

2. Captain Ward, the pirate. With an account of his famous fight with the Rainbow ship of war. United States: s.n, [not before 1775 and not after 1810] 1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); 35 x 25 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775  Verse in 108 lines; first line: Strike up, you brave and lusty gallants. Imprint dates suggested by typography. Relief cut of ship at left of title; text in two columns; printed area measures 29.6 x 16.1 cm. Not in Evans.  ESTCW33510.

3. Captain Ward, the pirate : with an account of his famous fight with the Rainbow, ship of war.  [Boston]: Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. printer, Boston., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (relief cuts); 25 x 21 cm. Verse of 108 lines; first line: Strike up, you brave and lusty gallants. Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at Boston in the directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 19, presented to the society in August 1814. Relief cuts flanking title; text in two columns; printed area measures 21.2 x 16.0 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3006; Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 36 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS. 1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(026) 
CATALOGUE Cupid's Revenge.
###Cupid's revenge. Or, an account of a king, who slighted all women, and at length was forced to marry a beggar. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.33  Verse "A king once reign'd beyond the seas". Not in Foxon. ESTCN1764.

NOTE Percy no. 33. Also, London 1700? and other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(027) 
CATALOGUE Crafty Kate of Colchester.
###Crafty Kate of Colchester; or, the false hearted clothier frighted into good manners. Tune of, the languishing lover.  titleend Newcastle upon Tyne: printed and sold by John White, [1750?] Newcastle] 1 sheet; 1/20. British Library L.R.31.b.19(103) British Library Rox. III(794) Manchester, Chetham's Library H.P.222  "You that in merriment delight .".  ESTCT34365.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(028) 
CATALOGUE Cruel Step Mother.
###The cruel step mother; or, the unhappy son. titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. British Library L.R.31.b.19(260) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.34  Verse "You most indulgent parents, lend an ear, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the sequence of woodcuts is a couple in a room, and a sailing ship; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT34457.

NOTE Percy no 34. Several other London listings. Also, Norton, Devon. Eight page versions: Aberdeen; Coventry; Falkirk; Tewksbury; Newcastle. 

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. The Damsel's tragedy, or, The cruel mother in law. Boston: s.n, [between 1790 and 1806]  1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); 32 x 22 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1790  Verse in thirty three stanzas; first lines: Indulgent parents dear, pray now attend. Allegorical relief cut representing Time (Reilly 1016).  Text in four columns; printed area measures 29.6 x 17.9 cm. Not in Evans. Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3039.  ESTCW33562.

2. The Damsel's tragedy. Or, the cruel step mother. United States: s.n, [between 1790 and 1810]1 sheet; 29 x 23 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1790  Verse in thirty three stanzas; first lines: Indulgent parents, dear, pray now attend. Imprint dates suggested by typography. Text in four columns; printed area measures 25.8 x 18.6 cm. Not in Evans. Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3040.  ESTCW33563.

3. The Damsel's tragedy; or The cruel mother in law.  Salem [Mass.]: printed [by N. & J. Coverly] at the sign of Faust's statue, where cash and the highest price is given for cotton and linen rags, [1799?] 1 sheet; ?.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1799  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1799 Note: photocopy  Private Collections, Chester, Pennsylvania  Shelfmark: Michael Zinman, 1993  Verse in two parts; first lines: Indulgent parents dear, pray now attend. Text in four columns. Not in Evans Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW41346.


DM64ballads(029)
CATALOGUE Cruel Cooper of Ratcliff-Cross.
###The cruel cooper of Ratcliff. In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.36  A song "Near Ratcliff Cross lived a cooper there". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 26 x 37 cm. ESTCN1941.

NOTE Percy no 36. Several London listings. Also, 8 page versions, Tewkesbury; Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(030) Author: M. P.(Martin Parker) , d. 1656?
CATALOGUE Cooper of Norfolk.
###The cooper of Norfolk, or, a jest of a brewer and a cooper's wife.  titleend [London?: s.n., [1750?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (woodcuts); obl.1/2. British Library, Rox. III.317 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Oxford University Bodleian Library (includes The Vicar's Library, ST. Mary's Church, Marlborough), Oxford, England Harding 2(I) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.37  Anonymous. By Martin Parker. Verse "Attend my masters and listen well". ESTCT34069.

NOTE Percy no 37. Several London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(031) 
CATALOGUE Constance and Anthony.
###Constance and Anthony: or, an an [sic] admirable new northern story... Tune I wish thou wert in Shrewsbury. titleend London: printed and sold at the Printing office in Bow Church yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20. British Library L.R.271.a.2/2.1(22) British Library L.R.31.b.19(261) Note: The imprint cropped  "Two lovers in the North, ". Not in Foxon.  ESTCT31598.

NOTE Also, 1720?; Aldermary, 1760? and other London listings. Also, Gosport. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(032) 
CATALOGUE Crafty Farmer of Norfolk.
###The crafty farmer of Norfolk: or, the subtle doctor. Being a new pleasant way, invented for the cure of a great belly. To the tune of, The plowman's health. titleend London: printed and sold by William and Cluer Dicey; and also at their warehouse in Northampton, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.38  A song "There was a rich farmer that had a fair maid". Publication date from Houghton. Not in Foxon. Houghton copy = 24.5 x 36.5 cm. ESTCN1933.

NOTE Percy no 38. No other copy located. Verso has extensively illustrated elegy on Frederick, Prince of Wales. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(033) 
CATALOGUE Country Girl's Policy: Or, The Cockney Out-witted.
###The country girl's policy: or, the Cockney outwitted. To a pleasant new tune. titleend [London] : Printed and sold at the printing-office in Bow-church-yard, London, [1765?]
1 sheet : ill. ; 1/2.Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.39.  A song - "All you that are to mirth inclin'd, ".  Publication date from Houghton copy, 23 x 36.5 cm.
ESTCN1927.
 
NOTE Percy No. 39. Several London listings, Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(034) 
CATALOGUE Covetous Mother.
###The covetous mother; or the terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?]. 1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse After the title comes a preliminary verse with first line " You that these woeful tidings hear, ". The text begins with "There was a wealthy young squire, ". In four columns with the title, preliminary verse and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol. 1 ESTC t206076.

NOTE Percy 35 is Northampton, etc. Dicey, 1730. Two other London listings. Also, Newcastle, 1760?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(035) 
CATALOGUE Catskin: Or, The Wandering young Gentlewoman.
###The wandering young gentlewoman or, Catskin. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?]. 1 sheet; obl.1/2? Verse "You fathers and mothers, and children also, ". In four columns with the title over the first two; the columns are not separated by rules. Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol. 3 ESTCT206997.

NOTE Percy no 40 is London, Stonecutter street. Several other London listings. Many listings of eight page versions.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. Cat skin; or, The wandering lady.Mass.?: s.n, [not before1775 and not after 1810] 1 sheet; 31 x 25 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1775 American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1775 Note: photocopy  Verse in four parts; first line: You fathers and mothers, and children also. Another edition (Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3392) has title, The Wandering lady, or Catskin, and is dated "not before 1775 and not after 1810." Text in three columns. Not in Evans Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.  ESTCW41314.

2. The Wandering lady, or Catskin. Mass.?: s.n, not before [1775 and not after 1810] 1 sheet; 31 x 25 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775  Verse of 224 lines; first line: You fathers and mothers and children also. Included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads &c. printed in Mass. .. no. 3392. Imprint dates suggested by typography. Text in three columns separated by ornaments; printed area measures 26.4 x 21.2 cm. Not in Evans. Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3392.  ESTCW33727. 


DM64ballads(036) 
CATALOGUE Chichester Merchant.
###The Chichester merchant: or, the victim rescu'd. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.4(83)  A ballad "A rich merchant man there was, that was both grave and wise, ". In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. ESTCT192352.

NOTE Also, Bow, 1760? (2).

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(037) 
CATALOGUE Cruel Lover: Or, Credulous Maid.
###The cruel lover: or, the credulous maid. Being an account of a young man near London, who, after he had courted a young maid, and gain'd her consent to lie with him, cruelly murder'd her, and afterwards threw her into Ann is so clear, near Shore ditch, &c. Tune, George Barnwell. titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.41  A song "Young men, I pray attend, ". Imprint from Houghton. Houghton copy = 22 x 35 cm. ESTCN1945.

NOTE Percy no 41. The only copy located. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(038) 
CATALOGUE Cupid's Courtesy.
###Cupid's courtesy: or, the young gallant foil'd at his own weapon. He scorned Cupid and his dart until he found a wounded heart.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1  Verse "Thro' the cool shady woods, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206122.

NOTE London: Norris, 1715; 1730? = Percy No. 42; 1750; 1760?; Newcastle, 1775?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(039)
CATALOGUE Cruel Knight: Or, Fortunate Farmer's Daughter.
###The cruel knight, and the fortunate farmer's daughter. titleend [London]: Printed in Bow church yard, London. Sold also at the printing office in Northampton, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.44 Note: trimmed at top, affecting title  A song "In famous York city a farmer did dwell". Not in Foxon. Houghton copy = 22.5 x 36.5 cm. ESTCN1942. 

NOTE Percy no 44. Other London listings. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(040) 
CATALOGUE Crafty Lover: Or, The Lawyer Out-witted.
###The crafty lover; or, the lawyer outwitted. Tune of, I love thee more and more. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1765?]. 1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? A song "Of a rich counsellor I write, ". MH: 25242.61F* 2r (Verified) Cambridge University Library ESTCN028698.

NOTE Percy no 45 is Northampton, Dicey, 1735? Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
A Lawyer outwitted. [Boston]: Sold at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, [between 1731 and 1776] 1 sheet ; 32 x 21 cm. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1731. Verse of eighty-eight lines; first lines: Of a rich counsellor I write, who had one only daughter. Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.9 x 16.2 cm. Not in Evans - Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides - Not in Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry. ESTCW41291.

The Lawyer outwitted.  [Boston]: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814]  1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (relief cuts); 28 x 22 cm.  Verse of eighty eight lines; first lines: Of a rich counsellor I write, who had an only daughter.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 14, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Relief cuts flanking title; text in two columns; printed area measures 23.0 x 16.0 cm. Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 143  CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS. 1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(041)
CATALOGUE Children in the Wood.
###The children in the wood. Or the Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.46  A song "Now, ponder well, ye parents dear, ". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 23.5 x 37.5 cm. ESTCN1924.

NOTE Percy no 46. Several London listings. Also, single sheet Newcastle; Norwich Tewksbury, Edinburgh; other versions.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. The two babes in the wood: together with Divine songs for children.  [United States: s.n, not before 1760 and not after 1790] 1 sheet; 46 x 34 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1760 Ballad and six songs with caption Divine songs: Excellency of the Bible. Praise to God for learning to read. Duty to God and our neighbor. The All seeing God. Thoughts on God and death. [and] Against scoffing and calling names.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in four columns separated by ornaments; printed area measures 42.6 x 30.8 cm.  Not in Evans. ESTCW19049. 

2. The children in the woods. Being a true and mournful relation of the inhuman murder of two children by a deceased gentleman in Norfolk, whom he left to the care of his brother ... To which is added A Word of advice to executors. To a very mournful tune.  ...  Providence: Printed and sold [by John Waterman] at the printing office at the paper mill, [1768?]  1 sheet: ill.; 34 x 23 cm.  Private Collections, Chester, Pennsylvania  Shelfmark: Bradford Swan (1949) Verse in three columns; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  Printer's name and date of publication supplied by Alden.  Bristol B2864; Shipton & Mooney 41808; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 381. ESTCW19054.

3. The children in the woods. Being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk, whom he left to the care of his brother; but this wicked uncle, in order to get the childrens estate, contrived to have them destroyed by two ruffians, whom he had hired for that purpose; with an account of the heavy judgments of God which befel him for this inhuman deed, and the untimely end of the two bloody ruffians. To which is added, A word of advice to executors, &c.  [Boston]: Sold [by T. & J. Fleet] at the Heart & Crown in Cornhill, [ca. 1770] 1 sheet: ill.; (1/2)  Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Shelfmark: ROS 64 In verse; first line: Now ponder well you parents dear.  Printed in three columns.  Bristol B3106; Shipton & Mooney 42030; Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 64. ESTCW38748.

4. The children in the woods. Being, a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children  ...  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, [not before 1780 and not after 1805] 1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); 34 x 22 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1780  Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *pAB7.A100 760cb Note: imp. slightly mutilated  Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Shelfmark: ROS 101 Verse in thirty eight stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: A Word of advice to executors.  Dated [1785] by Evans. However, the Bible and Heart, Boston, was the sign of Thomas (1732-1797) and John Fleet from 1780 to 1797, of John and Thomas (1768-1827) Fleet from 1797 to 1803, and of Thomas Fleet (1768-1827) from 1803 to 1805.  Relief cut at left of title; text in three columns; printed area measures 29.0 x 17.8 cm.  Evans 19401; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3015. ESTCW19046.

5. The children in the woods: Being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children ... [United States: s.n, between 1790 and 1810] 1 sheet; 40 x 25 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1790  Mass. Historical Society, Boston, Mass.  Verse of 152 lines; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  Followed by eight additional lines of verse entitled: A Word of advice to executors.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 32.9 x 18.1 cm.  Not in Evans. ESTCW19048 

6. The children in the woods: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children ...  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, [not before 1780 and not after 1805] 1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); 33 x 22 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1780  Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *pAB7 A100 760c Verse in thirty eight stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  Followed by eight additional lines entitled: A Word of advice to executors. Later edition of Evans 19401, with new setting of type, reworked relief cut, and different style of rule above imprint.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 29.1 x 18.2 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3015. ESTCW19047.

7. The children in the woods: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children ...  To a very mournful tune.  [Salem, Mass.]: Sold [by William Carlton] at the Bible and Heart in Salem, [1792?] 1 sheet; ?.  Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. .  Verse in forty stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  William Carlton moved his bookstore to this address in Salem in 1792.  Text in three columns.  Bristol B7343; Shipton & Mooney 45849; Bristol B7956; Shipton & Mooney 46410; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3022. ESTCW19045. 

8. Children in the woods[.] Newport [R.I.]: Printed by H. & O. Farnsworth, [1798 or 9] 1 sheet: ill.; 32 x 25 cm.  Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island .  Verse in 160 lines; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.  Havila and Oliver Farnsworth printed together in 1798 and 1799.  Printed in three columns.  Bristol B10260; Shipton & Mooney 48390; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1560. ESTCW19055.


DM64ballads(042)
CATALOGUE Chevy-Chase.
###An unhappy memorable song of the hunting in Chevy Chace, between Earl Piercy of England, and Earl Douglas of Scotland. titleend London: printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.47  A song "God prosper long our noble king, /Our lives and safeties all." Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy: 28.5 x 35.5 cm. ESTCN14482.

NOTE Percy no 47. 1770. Many London listings. Also, Bristol, Sheffield, Worcester Edinburgh.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. Chevy Chace. [Salem, Mass.]: Sold [by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall?] at the printing office in Salem, [1772?] 1 sheet; 35 x 20 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1772  Verse, of 256 lines, describing the Battle of Otterburn (1388); first line: God prosper long our noble King. The imprint is one used occasionally by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall in 1772 and 1773. Cf. Tapley, H.S. Salem imprints, 1768 1825, 1927, p. 311 312. Text in three columns; printed area measures 31.1 x 17.5 cm. Not in Evans. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.  ESTCW6772.

2. An unhappy memorable song of the hunting in Chevy Chace, between Earl Piercy of England and Earl Douglas of Scotland.  Mass.?: s.n, [not before 1775 and not after 1810]. 1 sheet; 35 x 21 cm.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 33.0 x 16.7 cm.  Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3013. North America MWA: BR 1775 ESTCW006773.

3. An unhappy memorable song of the hunting in Chevy Chace, between Earl Piercy of England and Earl Douglas of Scotland. Mass.?: s.n, [between 1775 and 1810]  1 sheet; 1/2?. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1775 American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BDSDS. 1775 Private Collections Shelfmark: Michael Zinman, 1993. Text in three columns; printed area measures 33.0 x 16.7 cm. In the present edition, the third line begins to the right of the initial "G" of the first line. Not in Evans. Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3013.  ESTCW41342.

4. The hunting in Chevy Chase. A ballad. [Salem, Mass.]: Sold [by William Carlton] at the Bible & Heart in Salem, [1792?] Salem, Mass.]  1 sheet; ?? Essex Institute, Salem. Verse, in sixty four stanzas, describing the Battle of Otterburn (1388); first line: God prosper long our noble King. William Carlton moved his bookstore to this address in Salem in 1792. Text in three columns. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides. Bristol B8024; Shipton & Mooney 46470.  ESTCW6834.

5. The hunting of Chevy-Chace. A ballad. [United States]: Printed for every purchaser, [1799?]  8p.; 16?. Library of Congress Shelfmark: PR977.C5 no.3  Describing the Battle of Otterburn (1388). Date of publication supplied by Evans.  Evans 35300.  ESTCW6835. 

6. Chevy Chase. [Boston]: Sold by N. Coverly, Jr. corner of Theatre Alley Milk Street: Boston, , October, [1811]. 1 sheet ([1] p.); 37 x 29 cm. Verse of 256 lines describing the battle of Otterburn (1388); first line: God prosper long our noble King. American Antiquarian Society copy folded and bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 30, presented to the Society in August 1814. Text in three columns; printed area measures 31.3 x 19.0 cm. Shaw & Shoemaker 22519; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3011a; Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 41.


DM64ballads(043) 
CATALOGUE Crafty London Apprentice: Or, Bow Bells.
###The crafty London apprentice. Or bow bells. titleend London: printed and sold at the printing office, in Stonecutter Street, near the Fleet Market, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.48 British Library Cup.21.g.39/67  A song "You London dames that love to range". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy 24.5 x 37.5 cm.  ESTCN1936.

NOTE Percy no 48. Several London listings. Also, Worcester. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(044) 
CATALOGUE Countryman's Garland.
###The countryman's garland. In two parts. titleend London: printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2. British Library, L.R.31.b.19(240)  A song "You young men that down in the country do dwell" . ESTCT34264.

NOTE Percy no 49 is Stonecutter, 1760? Several London lisings. Also, Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(045) 
CATALOGUE Cook-Maids' Garland.
###The cook maid's garland: or, the out of the way devil. Shewing, how four highwaymen were bit by an ingenious cook maid.  titleend [London?]: s.n., [1775?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (woodcut); 1. British Library, Rox. III.772 Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Harvard University Libraries, 25242.61 F* 17r Harvard University Houghton Library, *EB75.P4128C no.50  Verse "You gallants all in London, ". ESTCT34066.

NOTE Percy no 50. Three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(046)
CATALOGUE Cambridgeshire Garland.
###The Cambridgshire tragedy.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2. Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.53  Verse "Good Christian people all, pray lend an ear". Not in Foxon. ESTCN1756.

NOTE: Percy no 53. Also, 2 other London listings

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(047) 
CATALOGUE Cumberland Garland.
###The Cumberland garland: or, the triumphant wedding. titleend London?, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1  "A wealthy man of late, ".  ESTCT206127.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(048)
CATALOGUE Carmarthen Tragedy.
###The loyal lovers: or, Carmarthen tragedy. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow  Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 2  Verse "Young lovers pray draw near, a story you shall hear, ". In four columns with the title over the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT206409.

NOTE Percy no 51 is London, 1775? Other London listings?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(049) 
CATALOGUE Cornwall Tragedy.
###The Cornwall tragedy: Or, the two faithful lovers. titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.52 University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections *PR1181.C92 no.43  A song "All you that do to love belong". Imprint information from Houghton. Houghton copy = 23 x 34.5cm. ESTCN4448.

NOTE Percy no 52. No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(050)
CATALOGUE Cambridge Tragedy.
###The Cambridgeshire tragedy.  titleend [London]: Printed in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Manchester, Chetham's Library H.P.310  Verse "Good Christian people all pray lend an ear, ". In three columns with the title above the first two and the woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206033.

NOTE Also, Bow 1750? = Percy No 53. and one other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(051)
CATALOGUE Contented Lovers.
###The contented lovers: or a pleasant courtship, between a shepherd and a nymph. titleend  London: printed and sold by L. How in Petticoat lane, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.54  Verse 'Shepherd Adonis being weary of his sport'. Not in Foxon. Houghton copy = 24.5 x 36cm. ESTCN4661.

NOTE Percy no 54. Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(052) 
CATALOGUE Cries of London.
###The cries of London. Tune, The merry Christ Church bells.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (woodcuts); obl. 1. British Library, Rox. III.466 Note: Cut and mounted Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.55  Date of publication suggested by cataloger. Verse "Hark! how the cries in every street". ESTCT34395 

NOTE Percy no 55. Several London listings. Also, Coventry. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(053)
CATALOGUE Crafty Miller: Or, Mistaken Batchelor.
###The crafty miller; or mistaken batchelor. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Bow  Chuch Yard [sic] London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20. Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.6(50) Note: Slightly mutilated, affecting the title  Verse "You gallants of England, I pray now draw near, ". In four columns with the title over the first two; the columns are separated by double rules. No full stop. ESTCT195299.

NOTE London, Bow, 1760?= Percy No 56; other London listings. Also, Worcester and Birmingham.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(054)
CATALOGUE Crafty Sailor.
###The crafty sailor: or, the old woman disappointed of her nuptial enjoyment. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard. London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.57  A song "Good people draw near and listen a while". Publication date from Houghton. Houghton copy = 23 x 36 cm. ESTCN1939.

NOTE Percy no 57. No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(055)
CATALOGUE Crafty Esquires Garland.
###The crafty 'squire's garland. To the tune of, The highwaymen. titleend London: printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter street, Fleet Market, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Note: Slightly mutilated, affecting the imprint  "You lovers that are to mirth inclin'd, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts over the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206099.

NOTE Four London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(056)
CATALOGUE Chester Garland.
###The Chester garland. In four parts. titleend [London?], [1750?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20. British Library L.R.31.b.19(277) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 Note: MS. note Devon Record Office, Exeter 9972/23 Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.3(108) University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections *PR1181.C92 no.27 Harvard University Libraries 25242.61F* 21r Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.58  Verse "A merchant of London, as many report, ". In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT30566.

NOTE Percy no 58. 1762? No other single sheet versions.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Chester garland. In four parts. Part I. How a merchant married a lady, whom he left unbedded, and went to sea; and how coming home he was drove to Chester, where he ventured all his substance on his wife's chastity. ... Printed at Keene [N.H.], : [by Henry Blake & Co.], M, DCC, XCIV. [1794] 8 p.; 17cm. (12mo) In verse. Henry Blake & Co. are the only printers of record at Keene in 1794. Bristol B8619; Shipton & Mooney 47007 American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed: Ezekiel Story's property, Randolph June 2nd 1796. CALL NUMBER(S): Dated Pams.  ESTCW33546.


DM64ballads(057) 
CATALOGUE Cupid's Trapan.

NOTE No copy located. Probably the same as: Cupids trappan; or, Up the green forrest. Or, The scorner scorn'd; or Willow turn'd into carnation; described in the ranting resolution of a forsaken maid. To a pleasant new tune, now all in fashion. [London]: Printed for I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [between 1681 and 1684] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (woodcut); 1. 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(058)
CATALOGUE Durham Garland.
###The Durham garland. In four parts. titleend [London]: Sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.5(94) Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1 British Library Rox. III.(328) Note: Mutilated Manchester, Chetham's Library HP 3058 University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections *PR1181.C92 no.1 New York Public Library RBR *KVB(Ballads)  "A worthy lord of vast estate, ". ESTCT35038.

NOTE London, 1750= Percy no 66. Other London single sheet listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(059)
CATALOGUE Dorsetshire Garland: Or, the Beggar's Wedding.
###The Dorsetshire garland, or, the beggar's wedding. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl. 1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1  Verse "All you that delight in a jest that is true, " In four columns with the title above the first two columns; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. ESTCT212943. 

NOTE London Bow 1760 = Percy no. 67. Percy no 81 = London, 1750? Several London single sheet listings; Glasgow 8p with additions, 1780.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Dorsetshire garland, or The miser outwitted: showing how a rich gentleman of Dorsetshire, who had but one child, a daughter, about 14 years old, when he died, left her to the care of his brother, a rich miser; how the miser contrived to murder his neice for the sake of her money, but was disappointed of his wicked purpose; and how he was forced to part with all his gold to save his life. [Boston]: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun'r. corner Theatre Alley, Boston., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill. (relief cut); 42 x 26 cm. American Antiquarian Society copy folded and bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 2, presented to the society in August 1814. Text in two columns; printed area measures 41.5 x 20.1 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3068; Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 67 American Antiquarian Society copy mutilated. CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS. 1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(060)
CATALOGUE Difficult Batchelor.
###The difficult batchelor: or the nice clown well fitted with an industrious wife. titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75 P4128C no.68  Verse "A batchelor, whose name was Ned, ". Second line of text = "Of late we hear did wed"; another issue(ESTCT31847) has "Of late, we hear did want to wed, ". ESTCN56698.

NOTE Percy no 68. Four other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(061)
CATALOGUE Distressed Shepherd: Or, Joy after Sorrow.
###The distressed shepherd; or, joy after sorrow. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol. 1  Verse "I am a poor shepherd undone, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206155.

NOTE London, Bow, 1760?= Percy no 70. Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(062)
CATALOGUE Dying Lovers last Farewell.
###The dying lovers last farewell, or the tragical downfall of Marcellus and Arminda. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. British Library L.R. 31.b.19(142) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves  Verse "One night when all the village slept, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. ESTCT35107.

NOTE Two other London listings. Also, Canterbury, 1745?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(063)
CATALOGUE Distracted Sailor.
###The distracted sailor. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.4(45)  A ballad "Oh! how pleasant are young lovers, ". In three columns with the title and a woodcut over the first two. ESTCT192114.

NOTE London, Bow, William and Cluer Dicey, 1740? = Percy no 71; other London listings. Also, Banbury, 1775?; Newcastle with songs added, 1765?, 1775?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(064)
CATALOGUE Dutiful Daughter of Halifax.
###The dutiful daughter of Halifax. In four parts. titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20. British Library L.R.31.b.19(255) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Manchester, Chetham's Library HP 1177 Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.3(35) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.72  Verse "In Halifax town there lived one, ". In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. ESTCT35056.

NOTE Percy no 72.Three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(065)
CATALOGUE Death and the Lady.
###The great messenger of mortality: or, a dialogue betwixt death and a lady. titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20. Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.73  Verse "Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside". ESTCN701.

NOTE Percy no 73. Percy no 74 is: The king of terrors: or, the great messenger of mortality. Being a dialogue between Death and a lady, London, 1760?  Several London listings. Also, single sheet: Coventry; Newcastle, Tewkesbury.; Worcester. Edinburgh is A dialogue between Death and a beautiful lady. (1760?). 

NORTH AMERICA: 
1. A Dialogue between Death and a lady. Very suitable for these times. [Boston]: Sold at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, [not before 1731 and not after 1776] 1 sheet: ill. (relief cut); 33 x 22 cm. American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1731 Harvard University Houghton Library. Text in two columns; relief cut (Reilly 1196) at left of title and border ornaments (Reilly 586) separating columns; printed area measures 29.7 x 17.6 cm. Bristol B3109; Shipton & Mooney 42033; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 5057.  ESTCW37929.

2.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  Very suitable to be learned by heart, in these degenerate times.  [Boston]: Printed and sold in Milk Street [by John Kneeland and Seth Adams?, between 1765 and 1775] 1 sheet; 33 x 20 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1765  Dialogue, in verse.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 31.7 x 17.0 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3058.  ESTCW10718.

3.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  Very suitable to be learned by heart, in these degenerate times.  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, Boston, [not before 1780 and not after 1805] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); 34 x 20 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1780.  Relief cut (Reilly 1196) at left of title.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.6 x 17.6 cm.  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW33564.

4.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  Very suitable to be learned by heart, in these degenerate times.  [Boston]: Printed and sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill, Boston, [not before 1780 and not after 1805] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); 36 x 21 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1780 b w  Dialogue in verse; Relief cut (Reilly 1196) at left of title; text in two columns; printed area measures 31.1 x 17.5 cm.  With, on verso: Some serious thoughts on the frowns of divine providence in the year 1764.  Boston?, [1764?].  Not in Evans.  Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW33447.

5.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  Very suitable to be learned by heart, in these degenerate times.  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, [not before 1780 and not after 1805] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); 34 x 20 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1780  Dialogue, in verse.  Relief cut (Reilly 1196) at left of title.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.9 x 17.4 cm.  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW33565.  

6.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  [Windham, Conn.  Printed by John Byrne?] Sold at the printing office Windham [179?] 1 sheet: ill.; 36 x 23 cm.  Brown University John Carter Brown Library.  Printed in two columns.  Bristol B7240; Shipton & Mooney 45767.  ESTCW20813.

7.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady: being a picture of the condition of a sinner, when death approaches.  [Two lines of verse] Exeter [N.H.]: Printed and sold at H.  Ranlet's office, M, DCC, XCIII.  [1793] 8p.; 12mo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Bristol B8321; Shipton & Mooney 46732.  ESTCW36022.

8.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady.  [Boston]: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, corner Theatre Alley, Milk Street.  Boston., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 27 x 20 cm.  Dialogue in verse; first line: Fair lady lay your costly robes aside.  Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.  is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  I, no.  79, presented to the society in August 1814.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.5 x 18.0 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3060; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 65 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).

9.  A Dialogue between Death and a lady: [.] [Boston]: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.  corner of Theatre Alley, Milk Street, Boston., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 31 x 22 cm.  Dialogue in verse; first line: Fair lady lay your costly robes aside.  Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.  is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  II, no.  88, presented to the society in August 1814.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 27.5 x 19.2 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3059; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 66 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(066)
CATALOGUE Doating Mother.
###The doating mother's garland.  titleend London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(179) Note: Cut into several pieces and pasted to blank leaves Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.75  "You gallants of London, pray draw near awhile, ".  In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Reconstructed BL copy (which has been cut up).  ESTCT34772.

NOTE Percy no 75 is London 1760.  No other copies.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(067)
CATALOGUE Dragon of Wantley.
###An excellent ballad of a dreadful combat fought between Moore of Moore Hall and the dragon of Wantley.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printig office [sic] in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(230) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves  "Old stories tell, how Hercules".  In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT33689.

NOTE Percy no 76 is London: printed by John Pugh.  And sold by Joseph Davies, [1750?].  No other imprints by Pugh.  Several other London listings.  Also, Northampton, Raikles and Dicey, 1725?; Sheffield, 1750; Worcester, 1790?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(068)
CATALOGUE Dying Tears of a true Lover forsaken.
###The dying tears of a true lover forsaken.  Made on his death bed, the hour before his death.  To the tune of, Come live with me, &c.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1735?]  l sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.77  Verse "These gentle hearts that true love crave.".  The names of the lovers are said to have been Hugh Hill and Sarah.  Publication date from Houghton.  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 22cm.34cm.  ESTCN6412.

NOTE Percy no 77.  Also, London 1750.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(069)
CATALOGUE Dead Man's Song.
###The dead man's song: whose dwelling was near Basing Hall Street, in London.  titleend [London?, 1710?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(650)  Verse "Sore sick, dear friends, long time I was, ".  Dated [1700?] in Wing.  ESTCT32139.

NOTE Percy no 78 is London, 1790? No other 18th-century copies.  First published before 1701.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(070)
CATALOGUE Dutchess of Suffolk's Calamity.
###The most rare and excellent history, of the Dutchess of Suffolk's calamity.  To the tune of, Queen Dido.  titleend [London]: Printed for T.  Norris, [1720?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(213)  Anonymous.  By Thomas Deloney.  A song "When God had taken for our sins ".  Reprinted from 'Strange histories'.  ESTCT41446.

NOTE No other copy.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(071)
CATALOGUE Doleful Death of Queen Jane.

NOTE No copy located.  Several 17th-century cheap versions of the life and death of Jane Gray.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(072)
CATALOGUE Drunkard's Last Legacy.
###The drunkard's legacy.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] l sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.79  Verse "Young people all I pray draw near, ".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 26.5cm.38cm.  ESTCN6425.

NOTE Percy no 79.  No other single sheet version located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(073)
CATALOGUE Derbyshire Ballad.
###The Derbyshire ballad: or, Sir William Stanley's travels.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.80  A song "In Lancashire there liv'd a lord".  Publication date from Houghton.  ESTCN7622.

NOTE Percy no 80.  No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(074)
CATALOGUE Dorsetshire Garland.
###The Dorsetshire garland, or, the beggar's wedding.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.  1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.67 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  1 Note: variant Northampton Record Office Central Library, Northampton, England Hartshorne 34 University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections, Los Angeles, California *PR1181.C92 no.29 Harvard University Libraries, 25242.61F*  Verse "All you that delight in a jest that is true, " In four columns with the title above the first two columns; the columns are separated by plain rules.  A variant shows the final "n" in "London" in the colophon has failed to print.  Publication date from Houghton Houghton copy = 22.5 x 37cm.  Houghton reports also published under the title 'The beggar's wedding' (1676?) ESTCN4553.

NOTE Percy no 67.  Five single sheet versions of this, all London.  Percy no 81 is The Dorsetshire garland.  To an excellent tune.  London?, [1750?].  1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(163) Note: Cut up and laid down; Louisiana State University Middleton Library, Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.81  A song "Behold near the borders of fair Dorsetshire".  Verse 29, line 1: "And preving [sic]..".  Penultimate verse, line 2: "And unto his prents [sic]..".  ESTCT34847 of which there are other versions.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(075)
CATALOGUE Delightful Thomas.
###Delightful Thomas: or, weeping Kate's lamentation.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church yard London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  1  Verse "Brisk Tom and jolly Kate, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206135.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(076)
CATALOGUE Dame of Honour.
###The dame of honor; or, hospitality.  titleend London?, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library 11623.m.4(3) Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.4(99) Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.13(27) McGill University Library YP.9.C688 Cornell University Libraries Rare PR1181.C69+  Extracted from Thomas D'Urfey's 'Wonders in the sun'.  Verse "Since all the world's turn'd upside down, ".  In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT32037.

NOTE Percy no 82 is The dame of honour; or, hospitality.  Salop: printed in the year, 1738.  [Shrewsbury] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(077)
CATALOGUE Distressed Lady.
###The distressed lady; or, a trial of true love.  In five parts.  titleend [London?, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.83 Manchester, Chetham's Library, Manchester, England H.P.278  Verse.  "Loyal lovers give attention." Imprint from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 21 x 37 cm.  ESTCN8256.

NOTE Percy no 83.  Two other London single sheet listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(078)
CATALOGUE Durham Tragedy.
###The Durham tragedy.  A warning piece to all young ladies.  Being, a particular account of a cruel self murder that was committed on last New Year's Day, by Mr.  William Chamberlain.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.6(92) University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections *PR1181.C92 no.12  Verse "Young lovers most discreet and wise, ".  In three columns with the title and woodcuts over the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT195379.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(079)
CATALOGUE Entire Lovers.
###The intire lovers.  To an excellent new tune.  titleend  [Northampton?, 1740?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.127 Note: With 'The behaviour, confession, &c.  of William Welford' on verso  Verse "I lov'd you dearly once, 'tis true".  Houghton copy = 35x24cm.  Publication place and date from Houghton.  ESTCN17491.

NOTE Percy No 127.  Also, London, 1760.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(080)
CATALOGUE Faithless Captain: Or, The betrayed Virgin.
###The faithless captain: or the betrayed virgin.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "All ye maidens fair, I pray awhile draw near, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTCT206176.

NOTE Percy no 85 is London, 1760? Several other London listings.  Also, Coventry.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(081)
CATALOGUE Four Indian Kings.
###The four Indian Kings.  In two parts.  titleend London: printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(209) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.86.  A song "Attend unto a true relation".  ESTCT40088.

NOTE Percy no 86.  One other London single sheet listing.  The four Indian Kings speech to Her Majesty.  London, April 20.  1710 was also a popular piece of cheap print.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The Four Indian kings.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by Fowle and Draper] opposite the Founder's Arms, Marlborough Street, [762] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cuts); ??.  American Antiquarian Society.  Verse, in two parts, concerning the visit of the Iroquois chiefs to London in 1710.  First line: Listen to a true relation, of four Indian kings of late.  Second part has The Lady's kind answer.  The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is mutilated, lacking most of each of the two relief cuts at head, portions of text, and imprint after "Founder's." Presumably printed by Zechariah Fowle and Samuel Draper, whose office was opposite the Founder's Arms, Marlborough Street, Boston, in 1762 (Cf.  Evans 9313).  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW35149.

2.  The Four Indian kings, and a young lady of England.  United States?: s.n, [not after 
1780] 1 sheet; ?.  Brown University John Carter Brown Library Shelfmark: bD780.F773i Brown University John Carter Brown Library Shelfmark: bD780.F773i  Verse in three columns; first line: Listen to a true relation.  The John Carter Brown Library copy bears the signatures of several members of a Dolbear family who lived in Templeton, Mass., in the late 18th century, and is dated May 1780.  On the strength of this it has been ascribed at JCB to the press of Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass.; this ascription must be regarded as speculative.  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW24682.


DM64ballads(082)
CATALOGUE Fryar well fitted.
###The friar well fitted.  Or, a pretty jest that once befell, how a maid put a friar to cool in a well.  titleend London: printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, [1750?].  1 sheet; 1/2? Verse "As I lay musing all alone  ".  British Library: Rox.  III(346) ESTCT040226.

NOTE Percy no 87 is Northampton: printed by R.  Raikes and W.  Dicey, and sold by N.  Ward in Reading; William Royce in Oxford; Matthias Dagnall, Aylesbury, Stephen Dagnell in Chesham; [and 1 in Bister, 1 in Coventry, and 1 in Tring], [1725?].  One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(083)
CATALOGUE Fox-Cace: Or, The Huntsman's Harmony.
###The fox chace: or, the huntsman's harmony.  By the Duke of Buckingham's hounds, &c.  To an excellent tune much in request.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding 20(I)  Verse "All in a morning fair, ".  An account of a fox hunt attended by Mr.  Tibbals, Tom Mossman, Squire Whitcliff, Mr.  Watson and Leppin.  No full stop at end of title.  ESTCT207052.

NOTE Also, Newcastle 1p.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(084)
CATALOGUE Fair Rosamond's Overthrow.
###The unfortunate concubine or, Rosamond's overthrow.  Occasioned by her brother's praising her beauty to two young knights of Salisbury, as they rid [sic] along the road.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(658) Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3  Verse "Sweet youthful charming ladies fair, ".  In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT50403.

NOTE Percy no 88 is Northampton, Dicey 1730? Another Northampton, Dicoy [sic] and other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(085)
CATALOGUE Fair Rosamond and King Henry II.
###The life and death of fair Rosamond.  King Henry the Second's concubine, titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(714) Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library John Johnson: street ballads, box 9 Folger Shakespeare Library PR2244.D2F4 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.89.  Anonymous.  By Thomas Deloney.  Verse "When as king Henry rul'd this land, ".
ESTCT40910.

NOTE Percy no 89.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: See Music in Colonial Massachusetts (Boston, 1980), I pp.  304-7 for a discussion of these items.
1.  Fai[r Rosamond] Ga[?..] who wa[s King Henry] the Seco[nd's concubine], and put [to death] by Queen [Elinor, i]n the bower of Woodstock, near Oxford.  Newport [R.I.]: Printed and sold by the Widow Franklin, at the town school house 1746.  8p.  ill.; 16 cm.  A ballad.  The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is imperfect; missing portions of title conjectured by Alden from Hazlitt.  Attributed to Thomas Deloney in the Catalogue of English and American chap books and broadside ballads in Harvard College Library, p.  47.  Bristol B1314; Shipton & Mooney 40395; Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 74 CALL NUMBER(S): Dated Pams.ESTCW27977.

2.  Fair Rosamond: a lamentable ditty.  [Boston]: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.  Milk Street Boston., [between [1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cut); 31 x 26 cm.  Verse of 176 lines; first lines: When as king Henry rul'd England, the second of that name.  Attributed to Thomas Deloney in Philbrick, Thomas L.  "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection, " Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v.  9, 1957, p.  255 258.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  III, no.  34, presented to the society in August 1814.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 24.1 x 19.4 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3099; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 84 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(086)
CATALOGUE Fair Maid of Dunsmore's Lamentation.
###The fair maid of Dunsmore's lamentation: occasion'd by Lord Wigmore, governor of Warwick Castle.  Being a full and true relation of how he enticed fair Isabel, of Dunsmore, in Warwickshire, (a shepherd's daughter) to his bed; and she perceiving herself with [sic] child by him, rather than undergo the disgrace amongst her friends, stabb'd herself, and died immediately.  Tune of, Troy town, &c.  titleend London?, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2  Verse "All you that ever heard the name".  Includes 'Fair Isabel's mournful resolution'.  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by rules.  ESTCT206167.

NOTE The only listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(087)
CATALOGUE Forlorn Lovers.
###[The forlorn lover.] A week before Easter; or the forlorn lover.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.302.  Verse "A week before Easter, ".  Houghton copy: 23.5x36.5cm.  Publication date from Houghton.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN25363.

NOTE Percy no 302.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(088) NOT FOUND
CATALOGUE Frantick Lover: Or, The wandering Young Man.

NOTE No copy located.  WING F2091= The frantic lover: or, The wandering young man.  With grief and care he is opprest, no comfort can he find, in nights he is disturb'd of rest, caus'd by his love unkind.  To an excellent new play house tune.  This may be printed...

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(089) 
CATALOGUE Fair Margaret's Misfortunes.
###Fair Margaret's misfortunes; or, sweet William's dream on his wedding night with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, Loudon [sic], [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "As it fell out upon a day, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2.  ESTCT35165.

NOTE Percy no 91 is London, Bow, 1760.  Also, Percy no 90 is William and Cluer Dicey, 1740?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(090)
CATALOGUE French Convert.
###The French convert.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2  Verse "Of all the transactions that ever was done, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206198.

NOTE No other single sheet copy.

NORTH AMERICA: No cheap version.


DM64ballads(091)
CATALOGUE Fisherman's Daughters Garland.
###The fisherman's daughter.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.92  A song "Sir Thomas the Wealthy lived in Kent".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 37.5 cm.  ESTCN1947 

NOTE Percy no 92.  Also, London, 4 Aldermary 1775?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(092)
CATALOGUE Fight at Malaga.
###The famous fight at Malago: or, The Englishmens victory over the Spaniards: relating how five English frigats, viz.  The Henry, Ruby, Antelope, Greyhound, and Bryan, burnt all the Spanish ships in their harbour at Malago; battered down their churches, and the[ir] houses about their ears, kill'd abundance of their men, and obtained an honourable victory.  Where ever English seamen goes, they are a terror to their foes.  To the tune of, Five sail of frigates bound for Malago, &c.  titleend London: printed by and for W[illiam].  O[nley].  for A[lexander].  M[ilbourn].  and are to be sold by C[harles].  Bats [sic] in Pye corner, [1700?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcuts); obl.  1?.  Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England British Library, Rox.  II.146 Note: Trimmed Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Douce Ballads 1(139) Note: variant Harvard University Houghton Library, EBB65H(104)  Verse "Come all you brave sailors".  ESTC r8849.

NOTE No 18th-century single sheet listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(093)
CATALOGUE Flower of Servingmen.  
###The famous flower of serving men; or, the lady turned serving man.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "You beauteous ladies great and small.".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the sequence of woodcuts is a man within a wreath, and men sitting around a round table; the columns are separated by ornamental rules; the final word of the verse is "Queen".  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTCT206192.

NOTE Percy no 93 is London, 1760? Other London listings.  Also, Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(094)
CATALOGUE Fair Maid of Islington.  
###The fair maid of Islington.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.94  Verse.  "There was a lass of Islington".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 23.5cm.  x 36.5cm.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN8144.

NOTE Percy no 94.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(095)
CATALOGUE Faithful Friendship.
###Faithful friendship: or, Alphonso and Ganselo.  To the tune of, Flying fame....  Whether the following song is owing to the invention of the poet, or whether it is grounded upon history, I cannot say; ...  titleend London: printed and sold in Bow Church yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2  "In stately Rome sometime did dwell".  In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT206172.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(096)
CATALOGUE Fortunate Lover: Or, The Old Man Out-witted.
###The fortunate lover: or, the old man outwitted.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2.  Verse "Let loyal lovers which around me do stand, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206196.

NOTE Two other London single sheet listed.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(097)
CATALOGUE Fun in an Alley: Or, The Footman Trapp'd.
###Fun in an alley; or the footman trapp'd.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Come all ye young gallants that's passing along, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2. ESTCT206199.

NOTE Also, Stonecutter Street, London = Percy no.  96; and other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(098)
CATALOGUE Fun upon Fun: Or, The Stark naked Wedding.
###Fun upon fun: or, the stark naked west country wedding.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.97  Verse "Come all you young maids so charming and fair".  ESTCN1309.

NOTE Percy no 97.  Also, London 1750? Also, Banbury, 1795?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(099)
CATALOGUE Gosport Tragedy.
###The Gosport tragedy: or, the perjured ship carpenter.  Tune, Peggy's gone over sea.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcut); obl.  1.  British Library, Rox.  III.510 Note: Cut and mounted Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.98.  Verse "In Gosport of late there a damsel did dwell, ".  ESTCT35754.

NOTE Percy no 98.A total of 7 London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Gosport tragedy or The perjured ship carpenter.  To which is added, Bonny Wully, (a Scotch ballad.) New York: [s.n.] Printed for the hawkers, 1798.  8p.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Evans 33809.  ESTCW10989.


DM64ballads(100)
CATALOGUE Gloucestershire Tragedy: Or, the Unnatural Mother.
###The Gloucestershire tragedy.  Or, the unnatural mother.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20.  British Library 1876.e.1(3) British Library Rox.  III(382) British Library L.R.31.b.19(226) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 National Library of Scotland Ry.III.a.1(27) Manchester, Chetham's Library H.P.234 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.99 Verse "Both young and old, I pray draw near, ".  ESTCT40855.

NOTE Percy no 99.  Three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(101)
CATALOGUE Gloucestershire Tragedy: Or, The Lover's Downfall.
###The Gloucestershire tragedy; or, the true lovers' downfal.  titleend London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.100 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Verse "Near Guildford town, I hear, ".  Publication place and date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 24.5 x 37.5 cm.  ESTCN18053.

NOTE Percy no 100.  Four other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(102)
CATALOGUE Gloucestershire Tragedy: Or, The Lover's Farewel to the World.
###The Gloucestershire tragedy; being an account of Miss Mary Smith, in Thornbury, who poison'd her father Sir John Smith, for love of a young man.  With an account of her trial, and dying speech at the place of execution, which was in Gloucester Market place, ...  titleend [Worcester]: Sold by S.  Gamidge, Worcester, [1770?] 1 sheet; obl.1/2.  Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.5(15) Verse "This pattern here I shall unfold, ".  In five columns with the title above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Gamidge was active in Worcester 1756 to his death in August 1777; the address given (High Street) indicates that this was printed between 1760 and 1777.  ESTCT192485.

NOTE The only single sheet version.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(103)
CATALOGUE Gelding of the Devil.
###The gelding of the devil....  titleend London: printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow lane, [1750?].  1 sheet; obl.1/2? "A pretty jest I will you tell'".  British Library: Rox.  III(330) ESTCT040541.

NOTE Three London single sheet listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(104)
CATALOGUE George Barnwell.
###An excellent ballad of George Barnwell who was undone by a strumpet, who caused him to rob his master and murder his uncle.  titleend [London]: Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?] 1 sheet; obl.1/2.  British Library, C.116.i.2(15) "All ye youths of fair England, ".  In six columns with the title above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules.  The same setting of type was issued both without an imprint and with a longer imprint including "no.  4" ESTCT33693.

NOTE Percy no 101 is London, How, 1760.  Several other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(105)
CATALOGUE Gallant Seaman's Resolution.
###The gallant seaman's resolution.  Whose full intent was to try his fortune at sea, and at his return to marry his landlady.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1765?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.102 Verse "A gallant youth at Gravesend liv'd".  Publication date from Houghton.  ESTCN1317.

NOTE Percy no 102.  Two other single sheet 18th-century listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(106)
CATALOGUE Golden Bull: Or, The Garland of Love's Craftiness.
###The golden bull: or, the garland of love's craftiness.  In four parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet; obl.1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(262) Note: Cut up into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Harding Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.103 Verse "Come listen, young lovers, awhile, and you'll find".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT35670.

NOTE Percy no 103.  Several London lisings.  Also, Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The crafty princess; or the golden bull.  In four parts.  Published [Worcester]: Printed at Worcester, Mass.  [by Isaiah Thomas], MDCCLXXXVII.  [1787] 8p.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP In verse.  Also, published as: The golden Bull, or, The crafty princess.  Title vignette.  Not in Evans.  ESTCW10823.

2.  The Crafty princess; or The golden horse.  In four parts.  United States?: s.n, [179?] 8p.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP In verse.  Also published as: The golden Bull, or, The crafty princess.  Probably printed before 1800.  Title page ornaments at head and foot (Reilly 758) in use from 1774.  Dated "179 " by Bristol.  Bristol B7235; Shipton & Mooney 45761.  ESTCW35269.

3.  The Golden bull.  United States: s.n, [not before 1775 and not after 1810] 1 sheet; 25 x 20 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775 Verse, with first line: Come listen young lovers a while and you'll find.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is imperfect, apparently lacking last two of four columns of text.  Printed area of surviving two columns measures 21.4 x 16.3 cm.  Not in Evans.  ESTCW33590.

4.  The Golden bull.  Mass.?: s.n, [not before 1775 and not after 1810] 1 sheet; 41 x 38 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775 Verse in four parts and 228 lines; first line: Come listen, young lovers, a while, and you'll find.  Included in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, ballads &c.  printed in Mass.  ..  no.  3131.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 38.0 x 34.9 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3131.  ESTCW33589.  

5.  The Golden bull: or The crafty princess.  In four parts.  New York: Printed for the itinerant book sellers, [179?] 8p.; 8vo.  New York Public Library.  Note: (ph.  copy) In verse.  Title vignette.  Bristol B7243; Shipton & Mooney 45770.  ESTCW35785.

6.  The Golden bull, or The crafty princess.  United States: s.n, [179?] 1 sheet; 45 x 32 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 179 Note: imp.  Verse in four parts and fifty seven stanzas; first line: Come listen young lovers awhile and you'll find.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 42.8 x 27.5 cm.  Not in Evans.  ESTCW35327.

7.  [The Golden bull, [.] [Boston]: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly Jun'r.  corner of Theatre-Alley, Boston., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 32 x 27 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0: BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(107)
CATALOGUE Gilderoy: Or, The Scotch Lover's Lammentation.
###The Scots lover's lamentation: or, Gilderoy's last farewell.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Verse "Gilderoy was a bonny by [sic]".  In four columns with the title and a woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT206878.

NOTE Percy no 104 is London, 1740.  Three London listings in all.  See also The downfall of Gilderoy.  Edinburgh?, [1776] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library 1346.m.7(36*) A song.  "Gilderoy was a bonny boy".  Includes: 'An excellent new song, intitled, Love will find out the way.'("Over the mountains, ") Printed on the same sheet as: 'John Armstrong's last good night.'; intended to be separated Dated May 6th, 1776.  ESTCT34882.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(108)
CATALOGUE Guy of Warwick.
###An excellent ballad of Sir Guy of Warwick.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? "Was ever knight for lady's sake, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge: Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTC t206271.

NOTE Also, Tewksbury, Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(109)
CATALOGUE Garland of Trials.
###The garland of trials.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1730?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.105 Verse "This noble relation which I am to write".  "The printing office in Bow church yard" = John Cluer, his widow Elizabeth or her second husband Thomas Cobb, proprietors 1715-28, 1728-30, 1730-1736 respectively.  Houghton = 36x25cm.  ESTCN18374.

NOTE Percy no 105.  Percy no 106 is London, 1760? Six London listings in all.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(110)
CATALOGUE Goodhurst Garland.
###The Goodhurst garland.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: printed [sic] and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, [London, 1750?].  1 sheet; obl.1/2? "A sailor courted a farmer's daughter, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Bodleian Library: Harding B.4(87) ESTCT192364.

NOTE One other London single sheet listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(111)
CATALOGUE Guernsey Garland.
###The Guernsey garland.  titleend [London]: printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London; [1750?] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 1.  British Library, Rox.  III.782 Note: Cut and mounted Yale University, Walpole 24.20 cop.  12 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.108 Verse "You mortals all that deal unjust, ".  ESTCT35909.

NOTE Percy no 108.  Four London listings in all.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(112)
CATALOGUE Gallant Lord and virtuous Lady.
###A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood thirsty blackamoor, their servant.  The like of which cruelty and murder was never before heard of.  To the tune of The lady's fall.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(219) Note: Cut into several pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library, Harding B.3(40) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.110 Verse "In Rome a nobleman did wed".  In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules.  In this setting line 24 begins with "strait".  ESTCT37507.

NOTE Percy no 110.  Percy no 149 is London, Bow, 1750? and Percy 109 is London, Bow, 1750? Several London listings.  Also, Newcastle; Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Blackamore in the wood, or, A lamentable ballad on the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady ...New Haven [Conn.]: Printed for every purchaser, [1802].  12 p.  Shaw & Shoemaker 1909.  


DM64ballads(113)
CATALOGUE Good Housewife.
###The good housewife's coat of arms; or, the spinning wheel's glory.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.111 Verse "One morning as I was trudging about".  Publication date from Houghton.  ESTCN8010.

NOTE Percy no 111.  Also, Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(114) NOT FOUND
CATALOGUE Herefordshire Garland.

NOTE No copy located.  An 8p.  Hereforshire Tragedy exists.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(115)
CATALOGUE Honour of Bristol.
###The honour of Bristol: shewing how the Angel Gabriel of Bristol fought three Spanish ships, ...  and killed five hundred of the men, ...  and lost but three men, ...  titleend [London]: Printed by and for W.  O.  and sold by the booksellers of London, [1701?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library C.40.m.10(85) Attributed to Laurence Price.  Verse.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCT128115.  

NOTE No other 18th-century listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(116).
CATALOGUE Hackney Lady.

NOTE No copy located, unless this is The Unfortunate Lady of Hackney, which is in the Catalogue under that title.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(117)
CATALOGUE Hunting the Hare on Banstead Downs.
###The hunting of the hare: with her last will and testament.  As it was performed on Banstead Downs, by the coney catchers and the hounds.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Of all the delights the earth doth yield, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTCT206288.

NOTE Percy no 113 is London, 1760.  Several London listings.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: 
Hunting the hare: a favorite song.  Boston: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cut); 40 x 17cm.  Song in seven stanzas; first line: Songs of shepherds in rustical roundelays.  American Antiquarian Society copy folded and bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  III, no.  10, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Printed area measures 36.1 x 8.5 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3180; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 119 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814) .


DM64ballads(118)
CATALOGUE Hunting of the Gods.
###The hunting of the gods.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.114 Verse "Songs of sonnets and rustical roundelays".  Imprint from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 22.5 x 33 cm.  ESTCN1952.

NOTE Percy no 114.  No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(119)
CATALOGUE High priz'd Pin-box.
###The high priz'd pin box: ...  To the tune of, Let every man with cap in hand, &c.  titleend Newcastle?, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Henry E.  Huntington Library 289768 Verse.  "I Have a gallant Pin Box, " In this edition, the text is in four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two columns.  The first and second columns are separated by an ornamental rule, as are the third and fourth columns.  The last line of text reads: "As long as they can stare." ESTCN68227.

NOTE Another Newcastle item listed.  No other copies.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(120)
CATALOGUE Hasty Bridegroom.
###The hasty bridegroom.  Or, the rarest sport that ever was try'd, between a bridegroom and his bride: with the bride's loving reply.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary church yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet; 1/2? A song "Come from the temple away to the bed".  Harvard University Houghton Library: *pEB75.P4128C no.115.  ESTCN001948.

NOTE Percy no 115.  No other 18th-century listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(121)
CATALOGUE Humourous Bites of the World.  
###The humorous bites of the world.  Bite upon bite, bite as bite can; he that bites cleanest, is thought the best man.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.116 A song "All you that stand by, I would have you draw nigh".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy 23 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN1949.

NOTE Percy no 116.  Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(122)
CATALOGUE Humours of Rag-Fair.
###The humours of rag fair: or the countryman's description of their several trades and callings.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.117.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library, Harding B.3(73) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library, PR3291.H85 1760 Verse "Last week in Lent I came to town, ".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 37 cm.  ESTCN1950.

NOTE Percy no 117.  Several London listings.  Also, Canterbury; Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(123) ZZZx
CATALOGUE Jolly Roger: Or, His Method of chusing a fair and virtuous Wife.
###Jolly Roger's method of chusing a fair and virtuous wife.  titleend London?, 1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Rutgers University Library.  A song "Jolly young Roger Twangdillo, of Plowden Hill, ".  ESTCN8769.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(124)
CATALOGUE Jolly Sportsman's Pastime: Or, Sir Harry's Delight.
###The jolly sportsman's pastime: or, Sir Harry's delight.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey; and sold by William Peachey, in Cambridge; at Mr.  Burnham's snuff shop, and by Matthias Dagnell, bookseller, in Aylesbury; Margaret Ward, in Reading; Paul Stevens in Bicester; Thomas Williams in Tring; Anthony Thorpe in St.  Albans; John Timbs in Stony Stratford; Mary Timbs in Newport pagnell; and by Churrude Bradey in St.  Ives, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.119 A song "Long e'er the morn".  On verso: part of the "goodnight" ballad of the murderers Walker, Parsons & Woodroff.  ESTCN46072.

NOTE Percy no 119.  One other Aldermary listed.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(125)
CATALOGUE Jury of Matrons.

NOTE No copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(126)
CATALOGUE Johnny's earnest Request.
###John's earnest request, or, Betty's compassionate love extended to him in time of distress.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Verse "Come, open the door, sweet Betty, ".  In four columns with the title, preliminary verse and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  The preliminary verse, in two short columns, begins with "Late in the night when all was fast, ".  ESTCT206299.

NOTE The only copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(127)
CATALOGUE Johnny Armstrong.
###Johnny Armstrong's last good night.  Declaring how Johnny Armstrong, and his eightscore men, fought a bloody battle with the Scotch King at Edinburgh.  To a pretty Northern tune.  titleend London: printed by William Dicey in Bow church yard, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.122 Verse 'Is there ever a man in all Scotland, '.  Houghton copy: 24 x 34 cm.  ESTCN7288.

NOTE Percy no 122.  Several London listings.  Also, Edinburgh.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


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CATALOGUE Jolly Farmer's Garland.
###The jolly farmer's garland, containing five excellent new songs: ...  titleend Newcastle?, [1750?] 8p.; 12mo.  British Library C.116.bb.11(7) Note: The pages separately mounted Folger Shakespeare Library PR976.S7.  ESTCT29165.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(129)
CATALOGUE Jovial Batchelor.
###The jovial batchelor.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at no.  4, Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "My friends I would have yon [sic] take my advice, ".  In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Includes 'The maiden's answer'.  British Library: L.R.31.b.19(198) (Cut into three pieces and pasted to blank leaves) (Verified) Oxford Bodleian Library.  ESTCT029230.

NOTE Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(130)
CATALOGUE Jane Shore.
###The woeful lamentation of Jane Shore, a goldsmith's wife in London, some time King Edward the Fourth's concubine.  To the tune of, Live with me.  titleend Northampton printed for Robert Dicey, [1748?] 1 sheet; obl.1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.123 Partly in verse.  "If Rosamond that was so fair, ".  ESTCN66155.

NOTE Percy no 123.  Several London listings.  Also, Newcastle; Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(131)
CATALOGUE Isle of Wight.
###The outlandish lady's love to an English sailor in the Isle of Wight.  titleend [London?, 1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library 1876.e.1(36) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.124 A song "From the Isle of Wight I have brought to light ".  ESTCT43506.

NOTE Percy no 124.  The only other copy is Percy no 244: The outlandish lady's love to an English sailor in the Isle of Wight.  London: printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(111) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.244 A song "From the Isle of Wight I have brought to light ".  ESTCT43505.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(132)
CATALOGUE John True and Susan Mead.
###The unfortunate lovers: or, John True and Susan Mead.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.125 Verse "Attend, ye lovers, and give ear/Unto this mournful song." Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy: 24 x 36 cm.  ESTCN14478.

NOTE Percy no 125.  Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(133)
CATALOGUE Jolly Crispin's Garland.
###The jolly Crispin's garland.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library 11622.aa.40(3) Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.5(41) "Two princely brethren once there were, ".  In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by ornaments.  ESTCT130513.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(134)
CATALOGUE Jolly Sailor's Description of a Man of War.
###The jolly sailor's true description of a man of war.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Stonecutter street, Fleet Market, [1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.126 A song "When on board a man of war we go, ".  22.5 x 35 cm.  ESTCN8767.

NOTE Percy no 126.  Two other London listings.  See also A new song called the jolly sailors true discriptions, of a man of war.  London: printed by T.  Magg, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Cup.21.g.43/18 Note: Slightly mutilated by paper folds Verse "When first on board a man of war, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  The imprint, which reads: "London: printed by T.  Magg, at the sign of the Eells Foot", is false.  Other editions are tentatively dated 1765? and 1790? ESTCT226536.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


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CATALOGUE Intire Lovers.

NOTE Not located.  Entire Lovers is entered in the catalogue before.  Percy in the Houghton copy altered "intire" to "entire".  So see above under Entire Lovers.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(136)
CATALOGUE Kentish Garland.
###The Kentish garland.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcuts); obl.  1.  British Library, Rox.  III.458 Note: Cut and mounted Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Harding 2(II) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.128.  ESTCT29351.

NOTE Percy no 128.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(137)
CATALOGUE Kentish Tragedy.
###The Kentish tragedy: or, a warning piece to all perjured young men.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(63) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.129 Verse.  "Young lovers all, awhile attend ." ESTCT29355.

NOTE Percy no 129.  Also, two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(138)
CATALOGUE King Henry II and the Miller of Mansfield.
###A pleasant ballad of King Henry II.  and the miller of Mansfield....  titleend Nottingham: printed by S.  Creswell, [1765?].  1 sheet; 1/2? "Henry our royal King would ride a hunting, ".  British Library: L.R.301.h.9(16) ESTCT042478.

NOTE Percy no 130 is London, 1760.  Several London listings Also, Newcastle; Nottingham.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(139)
CATALOGUE King William and the Forester.
###The King and the forester.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.131 Verse "You subjects of England come listen awhile".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 24 x 37 cm.  ESTCN1956.

NOTE Percy no 131.  Four other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(140)
CATALOGUE King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
###King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.  To the tune of, The King and Lord Abbot.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.132 A song "I'll tell you a story, a story anon".  Publication date from Houghton.  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 22 x 35.5 cm.  ESTCN1958.

NOTE Percy no 132.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(141)
CATALOGUE King Edward IV.  and the Tanner of Tamworth.
###King Edward the fourth and the tanner of Tamworth titleend London: printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, [1750?].  1 sheet; 1/2? Song.  "In summer time when leaves grow green, ".  British Library: Rox.  III(526) North America (Verified) Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.  ESTCT029447.

NOTE Also, London, 1725? 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(142)
CATALOGUE King Lear and his three Daughters.
###King Lear and his three daughters.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary church yard, Bow lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? Anonymous.  By Richard Johnson.  Verse "King Lear once ruled in this land"..  Houghton Library pEB75.P4128C no.133 ESTCN012272.

NOTE Percy no 133.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(143)
CATALOGUE King Richard the Third.
###An excellent ballad, of the life and death of King Richard the Third: ...  To the tune of, Who list to lead a soldier's life.  Note, as the use of these old songs is very great, ...  titleend Northampton: printed by Wm.  Dicey, and sold at Mr.  Burnham's snuff shop, and by Mathias Dagnell in Aylesbury; Paul Stevens in Bicester; Wm.  Ratten in Coventry; Caleb Ratten in Harborough; Tho.  Williams in Tring; Anthony Thorpe in St.  Albans; Wm.  Peachey in Cambridge; Mary Timbs in Newport pagnell; John Timbs in Stony Stratford; Jer.  Roe in Derby; John Hirst in Leeds; and by Churrude Brady in St.  Ives, [1720?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.3(25) Note: Mutilated, the lower part cut away Folger Shakespeare Library V.6.35 Verse "In England once there reign'd a King, ".  The first half of the sheet contains the title, prose introduction and a woodcut, the second two columns of verse.  ESTCT180800.

NOTE The only copy listed.  Also, Warrington, with additional songs, 8p.  Percy no 138= An excellent ballad of the deposing of King Richard the Second, and how, after many miseries, he was barbarously murder'd in Pomfret Castle.  Tune of, Regard my sorrows, Northampton, Dicey is not in the Catalogue.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(144)
CATALOGUE King Alfred and the Shepherd.
###King Alfred and the shepherd.  With the humours of Gillian, the shepherd's wife.  To the tune of Flying fame.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey; and sold by William Peachey, in Cambridge; Matthias Dagnell, and at Mr.  Burnham's snuff chop in Aylesbury; John Timbs in Stony Stratford; Paul Stevens in Bicester; [and 1 in Tring, 1 in St.  Albans, and 1 in St.  Ives], [1730?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.134 A song "In elder times there was of yore".  Publication date from Houghton.  Originally published as: The shepherd and the king(1650?).  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 28.5 x 40 cm.  ESTCN1954.

NOTE Percy no 134.  Also, London, 1775.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(145)
CATALOGUE King and the Northern Man.
###The King and northern man.  Shewing how a poor Northumberland man, tenant to the King, was wrong'd by a lawyer, concerning five ashes; and how the poor man went to the King and made known his grievance.  titleend Northampton: printed by Wm.  Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.135 Anonymous.  By Martin Parker.  Song "To drive away the weary day, ".  Houghton copy = 28.5 x 40 cm.  ESTCN10945.

NOTE Percy no 135.  Other London listings.  Percy no 136= Newcastle; Dublin; Percy 137=London 1760?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(146)
CATALOGUE Lovers Lamentable Tragedy.
###The lovers lamentable tragedy: When true lovers prove unkind, great sorrows they procure; and such strange pains the flighted find, that they cannot endure.  titleend [London?]: Sold by J.  Cobb in Plumbtree street, St.  Giles's, [between 1725 and 1775?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcuts), ; obl.  1/2.  Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Douce Ballads 2(3) Verse "Tender hearts of London City, " ESTCN69891.

NOTE The only copy located.  However, Cf.  Loves lamentable tragedy.  To a pleasant new play house tune.  [London?, 1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Between "tragedy" and "To a pleasant new play house tune" is a stanza with first line "When cruel lovers prove unkind, ".  Verse "Tender hearts of London city, ".  Includes 'A pleasant new ballad, on Sir John Barly corn.  The tune is shall [sic] I ly [sic] beyond thee'.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCT206295.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(147)
CATALOGUE Lady Isabella's Tragedy.
###Lady Isabella's tragedy; or, the step mother's cruelty.  Tune of The lady's fall.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.145 Verse "There was a lord of worthy fame".  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN3863.

NOTE Percy no 145 and 146.  Several London listings.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(148)
CATALOGUE Lady's Garland.
###The lady's garland.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.147 Verse "A virtuous young lady, ingenious and fair".  ESTCN3711.

NOTE Percy no 147.  Several London listings.  Also, Wolverhampton.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(149)
CATALOGUE Loyal Lover's Garland.
###The loyal lovers garland.  In four parts.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.148 A song "You lovers that know what to love do belong".  ESTCN10020.

NOTE Percy no 148.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(150) 
CATALOGUE Leeds Tragical Garland.
###The Leeds tragedy: or, the bloody brother.  titleend [London]: Sold at no.  42, Long Lane, [1795?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(168) Note: Cut into several pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.164 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.165 Verse "Good Christian people all I pray, ".  In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT37707.

NOTE Percy nos 164 and 165.  Other London listings, but no Bow or Aldermary.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(151)
CATALOGUE Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor.
###A tragical ballad, of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor; together with the downfall of the brown girl.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? A song.  "Lord Thomas he was a bold forester".  Houghton: *pEB75.P4128C no.150 ESTCN013814.

NOTE Percy no 150.  Several London listings.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(152)
CATALOGUE Lady's Fall.
###A lamentable ballad of the lady's fall.  To the tune of, In pescod time, &c.  titleend London: printed, by William and Cluer Dicey, and sold at their ware house in Northampton, [1740?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.151 Verse "Mark well my heavy doleful tale".  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 29.5 x 40 cm.  ESTCN3857.

NOTE Percy no 151.  Other London listings.  Also, Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(153)
CATALOGUE London 'Prentice.
###The honour of a London 'prentice.  Being an account of his matchless manhood, brave adventures done in Turkey, and by what means he marry'd the King's daughter, &c.  titleend Northampton: printed by W.  Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.152/3 A song "Of a worthy London prentice/My purpose is to speak'.  ESTCN8148.

NOTE Percy no 152 and 153.  Several London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: 
The London apprentice, : being an account of his matchless manhood, and brave adventures done in Turkey, and how he came to marry the king's daughter, &c.  Boston: [Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.], Nov.  1810.  1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cuts); 35 x 24 cm.  Verse of 144 lines; first lines: Of a worthy London 'prentice, my purpose is to speak.  Also issued with title: The Valiant London prentice.  Relief cut of trees flanking title also appears on Children in the wood (Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3022a) printed at Boston by Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.  between 1810 and 1814.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  III, no.  20, presented to the society in August 1814.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 25.3 x 19.4 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 20585; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 158 CALL NUMBER(S): BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(154)
CATALOGUE Leather Bottle.
###A song in praise of the leather bottle.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(432) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding 20(II) "God above that made all things, ".  In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT49422.

NOTE Other London listings.  Also, Canterbury; Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(155)
CATALOGUE Lady fell in Love with her Serving-Man.
###The tragical ballad; or, the lady who fell in love with the serving man.  titleend [London, 1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.155 Verse "Good people here attend".  Houghton copy = 27x36cm.  ESTCN13816.

NOTE Percy no 154 and 155.  Six London single sheet listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(156)
CATALOGUE Low-Country Soldier turn'd Burgo-master.
###The low country soldier turned burgomaster.  titleend [London]: Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey Uncat.  Manchester, Chetham's Library, Manchester, England H.P.295 Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Harding 2(II) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.157 A song "Here you may see the turns of fate, ".  With three woodcuts, each one above the first three columns of text.  23 x 35.5 cm.  ESTCN124.

NOTE Percy no 157.  Several London.  Also, Banbury; Wolverhampton.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(157)
CATALOGUE Little Musgrove and Lady Barnet.
###A lamentable ballad of little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet.  titleend London: printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bowlane, [1750?].  1 sheet; 1/2? "As it fell out on a high holiday.".  British Library: Rox.  III(340) ESTCT037502.

NOTE Several London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(158)
CATALOGUE Love-sick Serving-Man.
###The love sick serving man.  Shewing how he was wounded with the charms of a young lady, but did not care to reveal his mind.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "E'er since I saw Clarinda's eyes, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  British Library: L.R.31.b.19(20) (Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves) (Verified) Cambridge University Library ESTCT038686.

NOTE Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(159)
CATALOGUE Love without Measure.
###Love without measure: or, the young man's delight, and the maiden's joy.  To a rare new tune, called, Du Vall's delight, &c.  titleend London: printed by Tho.  Norris, [1725?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Between the lines "or, the young man's delight, and the maiden's joy" and "To a rare new tune, ..  &c." is a stanza in two columns, beginning "This young man woo'd a dam'sel [sic] fair, ".  Verse "Late in the country as I was walking, ".  In four columns with the title, preliminary verses and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCT206405.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(160)
CATALOGUE Love in a Barn.
###Love in a barn.  Or, right country courtship.  titleend [London, 1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.159 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2.  Verse "Come all ye brisk country girls".  First line in fourth column failed to print.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN3059.

NOTE Percy No 159.  Two other London.  Also, Colchester; Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(161) 
CATALOGUE Love in a Tub.  
###[Lov]e in a tub: or, the [old m]iser outwitted.  To an excellent new tune.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.160 Note: mutilated A song "Let every one that is to mirth inclin'd".  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN3062.

NOTE Percy no 160.  Three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  Love in a tub; or, The merchant outwitted by the vintner.  An excellent old song.  Shewing how a young vintner in London, fell in love with a rich winemerchant's daughter, and how they fun'd the old man ...  Sold at the printing office in Salem: [by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall?] where may be had (by the groce, dozen, or single) the following other ballads., [1772?] 1 sheet; 36 x 22 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1772 Verse in twenty one stanzas; first line: Let every one who to mirth is inclin'd.  Imprint is the same as one used occasionally by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall in 1772 and 1773; Cf.  Tapley, Harriet S.  Salem imprints, 1768-1825.  ..  Salem, Mass., 1927, p.  311 and 312.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.7 x 17.9 cm.  Booksellers' advertisement, listing fifteen ballad titles, appears within ornamental border below second column.  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW33629.

2.  Love in a tub: or The merchant outwitted by a vintner.  Shewing, how a young vintner in London fell in love with a rich wine merchant's daughter, and how they fun'd the old man ...  Boston?: s.n, [179?] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); ?.  Mass.  Historical Society.  Verse in twenty one stanzas; first line: Let every one who to mirth is inclin'd.  Imprint suggested by Bristol.  Text in two columns.  Bristol B7253; Shipton & Mooney 45779; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2577.  ESTCW13659.

3.  Love in a tub: or The merchant outwitted by a vintner.  Shewing, how a vintner in London fell in love with a wine merchants daughter how they funn'd the old man ...  Boston: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cut); 30 x 23 cm.  Verse in twenty one stanzas; first line: Let every one who to mirth is inclin'd.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  II, no.  4, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf.  Ford, W.C.  The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 25.6 x 17.8 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 153 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).  


DM64ballads(162) 
CATALOGUE Loyal Lovers of Exeter.  
###The two loyal lovers of Exeter.  In five parts.  Tune of The disconsolate lover.  titleend London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.84 A song "Draw near young gallants while I do unfold".  Also, published as: 'The Exeter garland'.  Houghton copy: 23 x 35.5 cm.  ESTCN14229.

NOTE Percy no 84.  Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  A Tragical account of the two lovers, of Exeter, who died on the road.  [Boston]: Sold near Charles' River Bridge, Boston, [ca.  1800?] 1 sheet; 30 x 21 cm.  Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *EBB8 Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *EBB8 In verse.  First lines: Draw near, you young gallants while I unfold., A tragical story as ever was told.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3372.  ESTCW39786.

2.  A Tragical account of the two lovers of Exeter, in England, who having missed of each other, they died of grief on the road.  Boston: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 29 x 22 cm.  Verse of 104 lines; first lines: Draw near you young gallants, while I do unfold a tragical story as ever was told.  American Antiquarian Society copies bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  I, no.  53, and v.  ii, no.  64, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf.  Ford, W.C.  The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 25.2 x 19.7 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 278 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 two copies (RE F 1814) .


DM64ballads(163) 
CATALOGUE Lord Henry and Fair Katherine.  
###Lord Henry and fair Katherine.  titleend [London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.161 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.162 A song.  "In antient times, in Britain's Isle".  ESTCN19038.

NOTE Percy nos 161 and 162.  One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(164)
CATALOGUE Mirth after Sorrow.  
###Mirth after sorrow.  titleend London?, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(199) Rutgers University Library.  Verse.  "You charming youthful ladies bright, ".  Heading above text: Part 1.  ESTCT39416.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(165) 
CATALOGUE Miraculous Farmer.  
###The miraculous farmer.  Or, no cock like the west country cock, titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet; obl.1/2? Verse "You women in city and country I pray".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTCT206442.

NOTE One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(166)
CATALOGUE Merry Bromfield.  
###The merry broom field.  Or, the West Country wager.  To a pleasant new tune.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.169(A) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.169(B) Verse "A noble young squire that liv'd in the West".  Houghton copy = 23 x 37 cm.  ESTCN3859.

NOTE Percy 169(A)and 169(B).  Two other London listings.  Also, Newcastle= Percy 170.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(167)
CATALOGUE Merry Hay-Makers.  
###The merry haymakers.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/40.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.171 A slip song "In the merry month of June".  Imprint from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 35.5 x 12 cm.  ESTCN3878.

NOTE Percy 171.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(168) 
CATALOGUE Monmouth worsted in the West.
###Monmouth worsted in the west, or, His care and grief for the death of his poor souldiers together with his worthy sayings, while he remained obscure in a silent grove, in presence of some of his particular friends: to the tune of The souldiers departure.  titleend London: Printed for G.H., in the Year 1688.  1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  Wing (2nd ed.), M2433aA.  ESTC r43463.  

NOTE No 18th-century copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(169) 
CATALOGUE Merry Wakefield.  
###The merry Wakefielld [sic] ballad: or the farmer's daughter of merry Wakefield.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? "Down in the north country, ".  In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 ESTCT206416.

NOTE One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(170) 
CATALOGUE Mitcham Widow.  
###The farmer's courtship; or, the Mitcham widow.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, [London, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(92) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Note: Mutilated, the woodcuts cut out Verse "At Mitcham town did dwell".  In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT35371.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(171) 
CATALOGUE Maid of the West sold her Maidenhead for a High-crown'd Hat.  
###The fair maid of the west; who sold her maidenhead for a high crown'd hat.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(492) Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Verse "I pray attend unto this jest, ".  ESTCT35164.

NOTE Also, London, Bow, 1750?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(172)
CATALOGUE Maudlin, the Merchant's Daughter of Bristol.  
###Maudlin, the merchant's daughter of Bristol...  To the tune of, The maiden's joy.  titleend Northampton: printed by W.  Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.174 Verse "Behold the touch stone of true love".  At head of title Numb.  6.  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 28 x 39.5 cm.  ESTCN3938.

NOTE Percy no 174.  Other London listings.  Also, Reading.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(173) 
CATALOGUE Merchant Outwitted by the Chamber-maid.  
###The merchant outwitted; or, the chamber maid's policy.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.175 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Manchester, Chetham's Library, Manchester, England H.P.241 Verse "Let every brisk be constant and true".  Houghton copy = 25 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN3928.

NOTE Percy no 175.  Also, Aldermary, 1775?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(174) 
CATALOGUE Mournful Widow's Garland.
###The mournful widow's garland.  In three parts.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.176 A song "Good people now both old and young draw near".  Imprint information from Houghton.  In this version the widow is saved by a sailor and the King.  Houghton copy = 24 x 36.5cm.  In another version the widow is saved by petitioning the Queen.  ESTCN4422.

NOTE Percy no 176.  Other London listings.  Also, Plymouth, 1750?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(175) 
CATALOGUE Miller's Advice to his Three Sons.
###The miller's advice to his three sons, in taking of toll.  titleend [London, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.178 Society of Antiquaries Library, B.S.Misc.  Verse "There was a miller who had three sons".  ESTCN4238.

NOTE Percy no 178.  Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(176) 
CATALOGUE Mistaken Lady's Garland.  
###The mistaken lady's garland.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Rutgers University Library.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.179 "Young ladies in country and city I pray, ".  In this impression, the woodcut on the left depicts a man kneeling before a seated woman in a garden.  20.5cm.  x 35.5cm.  ESTCN10047.

NOTE Percy no 179.  Other London listings.  Also, Wolverhampton.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(177) 
CATALOGUE Mournful Lady's Garland.
###The mournful lady's garland.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 "True lovers all, both far and near, ".  In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  The imprint is at foot of the fourth column.  ESTCT206454.

NOTE Percy no 180 is London, 1760.  Other London listings.  Also, Sheffield.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(178) 
CATALOGUE Northamptonshire Tragedy.  
###The Northamptonshire tragedy.  In three parts.  titleend London: printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1750] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(778) British Library L.R.31b.19(218) British Library C.20.c.30(3) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.182 A song "Young Lovers lend an Ear, I'm sure you'll shed a Tear".  ESTCT43156.

NOTE Percy no 182.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(179) 
CATALOGUE Northern Lord.  
###The northen lord.  In four parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the prin office [sic] in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.183 A song "A noble lord of high renown".  ESTCN10179.

NOTE Percy no 183.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(180) 
CATALOGUE Nobleman's Cruelty to his Son.  
###The tragical ballad of the nobleman's cruelty to his son.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at No.4 Aldermary Church Yard, [1775?].  1 sheet; 1/2? Verse "Both parents and lovers I pray now attend".  First published in [1760?] as 'The tragical ballad: or, the nobleman's cruelty to his son'.  British Library: L.R.31.b.19(298) ESTCT051563.

NOTE Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(181) 
CATALOGUE News from Hyde Park.  
###News from Hyde Park.  Or, a merry passage that happened between a north country gentleman and a very gaudy gallant lady of pleasure, whom he picked up in the park, ...  Tune of the Cros'd couple.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the prining office [sic] in Aldermary church yard, [London, 1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? Verse "One evening, a little before it was dark, "..  Houghton: *pEB75.P4128C no.186 (Verified) Oxford Bodleian Library.  ESTCN010345

NOTE Percy no 186.  One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(182) 
CATALOGUE Norfolk Wonder: Or, The Maiden's Trance.  
###The Norfolk wonder; or, the maiden's trance.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.187 Verse 'In the county of Norfolk, there lives, as we do hear'.  Publication place and date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 24.5 x 36 cm.  ESTCN10178.

NOTE Percy no 187.  The only single sheet listed.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(183) 
CATALOGUE Northern Ditty.  
###The northern ditty: or, the Scotchman out witted by the country damsel.  To a new Scotch tune.  titleend London: printed by W.  Dicey, [1740?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(241) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.188/9 A song "Cold and raw the North did blow ".  ESTCT43161.

NOTE Percy no 188 and 189.  Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(184)
CATALOGUE Neptune's Raging Fury.  
###Neptune's raging fury; or, the gallant seaman's sufferings.  titleend London: printed and sold at the Printing Office, Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(754) A song "Ye gentlemen of England".  ESTCT39754.

NOTE One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(185)
CATALOGUE New Way to make Love.  
###The new way to make love, or, the crafty doctor's medicine to gain a fair lady.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at Sympson's printing office in Stonecutter Street, Fleet market, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.190 Verse "Young lovers, for love I'd not have you despair".  Publication date from Houghton; Houghton copy = 24 x 35.5 cm.  ESTCN10342.

NOTE Percy 190.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(186)
CATALOGUE Overthrown of proud Holofernes; and the Triumph of virtuous Queen Judith.  
###The overthrow of proud Holofernes, and the triumph of virtuous Queen Judith.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.191 Anonymous.  By Thomas Deloney.  Verse "To plague and spoil the world throughout".  At head of title Numb.  1.  Publication date from Houghton.  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 28.5cm.  x 39.5cm.  ESTCN10626.

NOTE Percy no 191.  Also, London 1750? single sheet.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(187) Author: Pope, Walter, d.  1714.
CATALOGUE Old-Man's Wish.  
###The old man's wish...  To a pleasant new playhouse tune.  titleend London?, [1740?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.192 Anonymous.  By Walter Pope.  A song "If I live to grow old, (For I find I go down) ".  At head of title "Numb.  7".  This version is enlarged to nine stanzas, of which only the first four and last one are certainly by Pope(Houghton).  Publication place and date from Houghton.  First published in 1697 as 'The wish'.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN10866.

NOTE Percy no 192.  One other London single sheet listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(188) 
CATALOGUE Oxfordshire Tragedy.  
###The Oxfordshire tragedy: or, the virgin's advice.  titleend [London, 1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.193 Verse "Young virgins fair, of beauty bright".  Publication place and date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN10620.

NOTE Percy no 193.  Other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The Virgin's advice: or The Oxfordshire tragedy.  In two parts shewing how a knight's daughter in Oxford was courted by a gentleman, who after many vows and promises to marry her, and threatening to kill himself, got her with child, and afterwards murder'd her.  Also how a damask rose bush grew over her grave which flourish'd winter and summer, till being touch'd by him it immediately wither'd; upon which he confess'd the murder.  Newport, Rhode Island: Printed and sold by James Franklin at his printing house on Tillinghast's Wharf: where may be had many other sorts of verses [1730?] 8p.; 15 cm.  Rhode Island Historical Society.  In verse.  Evans 3368; Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 19.  ESTCW6665.

2.  The Oxfordshire tragedy: or, The virgin's advice, in two parts.  Part I.  How fair Rosanna of the city of Oxford, was betrayed by a young gentleman, of her virginity.  Part II.  His cruelty in murdering her; and how a rose bush sprung up on her grave, which blossomed all the year through; and how the murder came to be found out, by his cropping the rose, &c.  Worcester, Mass.: [by Isaiah Thomas], MDCCLXXXVII.  [1787] 8p.; 17cm.  American Antiquarian Society.  Shelfmark DP In verse.  Evans 20610.  ESTCW11498.


DM64ballads(189)
CATALOGUE Oxfordshire Garland.  
###The Oxfordshire garland.  In four parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.194 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Harvard University Libraries 25242.61F* 15r Verse "Charming ladies fair, I'll to you declare".  Publication place and date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 24.5 x 37.5 cm.  ESTCN10619.

NOTE Percy no 194.  Three London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(190) 
CATALOGUE Prince of England's Courtship to the King of France's Daughter.  
###An excellent ballad of a Prince of England's courtship to the King of France's daughter.  And how the Prince was disastrously slain, and the aforesaid princess was afterwards married to a forester.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.198 Anonymous.  By Thomas Deloney.  Verse "In the days of old, ".  Houghton copy = 24.5cm.  x 36.5cm.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN7116.

NOTE Percy no 198.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(191) 
CATALOGUE Plymouth Tragedy.  
###The Plymouth tragedy: or, fair Susan's overthrow.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcut); obl.  1.  British Library, Rox.  III.374 Note: Cut and mounted Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 National Library of Scotland, Ry.III.a.1(43) Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Harding 2 (I) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.199 Imprint suggested by cataloger.  Verse "Beautiful virgins of birth and breeding, ".  ESTCT42508.

NOTE Percy no 199.  Other London listings.  Also, King's Lynn.  There is an Aldermary imprint of 8p: The Plymouth tragedy.  Being a full and particular account of the strange and wonderful appearing of the ghost of Madam E Johnson, a beautiful young lady, ...  [London]: Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, 1770?].  8p.; 8vo.  Horizontal chain lines.  British Library: 11621.e.4(4) ESTCT100731.  This also appeared as The Portsmouth Ghost.  See below.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(192) 
CATALOGUE Poor Robin's Dream.  
###Poor Robin's dream, commonly called Poor charity....  To a complete tune, well known by musicians, and many others: or, a game at cards.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, [London, 1750?].  1 sheet; obl.1/2? Verse "How, now, good fellow, what all amort?".  In three columns, with the three woodcuts and title over the first two.  British Library: L.R.271.a.2/1.2(8) (Verified) Cambridge University Library 
North America (Verified) Houghton ESTCT044051.

NOTE Percy no 202 is London, 1760? Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle; Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(193) 
CATALOGUE Politick Lover: Or, The young Gentleman outwiting his Sweetheart by Virtue of a Bottle of Sack.
###The politick lovers [sic]; or, the young gentleman's frolick: outwitting his sweetheart with a bottle of sack.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.205 Verse "You lovers of England, whatever you be".  Houghton copy = 24.5 x 37 cm.  ESTCN11924.

NOTE Percy no 205.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(194) 
CATALOGUE Page's Wife of Plymouth.  
###The lamentation of Mr.  Page's wife of Plymouth.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(206) Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Harvard University Libraries 25242.61F* 38r Note: mutilated, affecting text Verse "Unhappy she whom fortune hath forlorn, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Includes 'Mrs.  Page's complaint for causing her husband to be murdered for love of George Strangwidge' and 'George Strangwidge's lamentation for consenting to Page's death, for love of Ulalia, Page's wife'.  In this edition there is a double rule above the colophon.  ESTCT37516.

NOTE Two London listings.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(195) 
CATALOGUE Princely Diversion: Or, The Jovial Hunting match.  
###Princely diversion: or the jovial hunting match.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(129) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Rutgers University Library.  Verse "One Valentine's day in the morning, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules..ESTCT44325.

NOTE Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(196) 
CATALOGUE Presumptuous Sinner.  
###The presumptous [sic] sinner: or, a dialogue between a noble lord and a poor woodman.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office Bow church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.208 Verse "A noble lord of high renown".  Houghton copy: 23 x 36 cm.  ESTCN20424.

NOTE Percy no 208.  One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: 
A Dialogue between a noble lord, and a poor woodman.  [Hartford]: Sold at the printing office in Hartford.  [s.n, ca.  1790?] 1 sheet; ?.  Connecticut Historical Society.  Verse of 204 lines; first line: A noble lord of high renown, as he was coursing up and down.  "From typography, probably about 1790." Bristol.  Text in three columns.  Bristol B11191; Shipton & Mooney 49063.  ESTCW35126.  

DM64ballads(197) 
CATALOGUE Politick Wife: Or, The Devil outwitted by a Woman.  
###The politick wife: or, the devil outwitted by a woman.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.209 Verse "Of all the plagues upon the earth".  Houghton copy = 23 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN11928.

NOTE Percy 209.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(198) 
CATALOGUE Pretty Kate of Windsor.  
###Pretty Kate of Windsor: or, the miller's daughter.  To an excellent tune.  titleend London: printed and sold by W.  and C.  Dicey, in St.  Mary Aldermary church yard, Bow lane, in Cheapside.  Sold also at their warehouse in Northampton, [1747?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1? A song "Near to the town of Windsor, ".  Publication date inferred from the fact that Houghton's copy is printed on the blank side of 'A genuine account of the trials...  of Francis Townley, ...  July, 1746...  '.  Harvard Houghton: *pEB75.P4128C no.210.  ESTCN001994.

NOTE Percy no 210.  One other London listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(199) 
CATALOGUE  Politick 'Squire: Or, The Highwayman [sic] catch'd in their own Play.
###The politick squire: or, the highwaymen catch'd in their own play.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Cup.21.g.23/50 Verse "Come gentlemen, and hear this ditty, ".  In four columns with the title and a woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT224040.

NOTE Four London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(200) 
CATALOGUE Prodigal Daughter.  
###The prodigal daughter: or, the disobedient lady reclaimed.  titleend Published [London?, 1775?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(254) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves; the central vertical ornamental rule has been removed Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.3(81) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C n.211 Verse "Let every wicked graceless child attend, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  In this edition the final line of text reads: "And give a crown of glory after death.".  ESTCT44549.

NOTE Percy no 211.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
The Prodigal daughter.  United States: s.n, [between 1775 and 1810] 1 sheet; 37x24 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1775 Verse in five parts and sixty eight stanzas; first line: Let every wicked graceless child attend.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 34.6 x 22.2 cm.  Not in Evans or Shaw & Shoemaker.  Possibly McCorison [Windsor, Vt.  A.  Spooner, ca.  1795]) ESTCW10742.

The above is the only broadside version.  See also:
1.  The Prodigal daughter: or A strange and wonderful relation, shewing, how a gentleman of a vast estate in Bristol, had a proud and disobedient daughter, who because her parents would not support her in all her extravagance, bargained with the Devil to poison them.  How an angel informed her parents of their daughter's design.  How she lay in a trance four days, and when she was put into the grave, she came to life again, and related the wonderful things she saw in the other world.  Likewise the substance of a sermon preached on this occasion by the Reverend Mr.  Williams, from Luke 15.  24.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, [between 1742 and 1754] 16p.  ill.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Not in Evans.  ESTCW26933.

2.  [Boston]: Sold by Benjamin [Mecom?] at the new printing office, over against the Old Brick Meeting, near the Court House, in Cornhill, Boston, [1758?] [16]p.  ill.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP In verse.  The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society.  Bristol B1994; Shipton & Mooney 41004; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10682.  ESTCW26935.

3.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by Zechariah Fowle] in Back Street, [between 1763 and 1771] 15, [1]p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP In verse.  Bristol B2802; Shipton & Mooney 41754; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10683.  ESTCW26939.

4.  Providence: Printed and sold [by John Waterman] at the new printing office, at the paper mill, [1768?] 16p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DB In verse..  Relief cut (Reilly 1365) on title page.  Bristol B2932; Shipton & Mooney 41868; Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 386; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10684.  ESTCW26934.

5.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by T.  & J.  Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Boston, [1768?] 8+ p.  ill.; ??.  Princeton University Library.  Note: imp.  In verse.  Relief cut (Reilly 1364) on title page signed: P.F.  [i.e., Pompey Fleet].  Bristol B2931; Shipton & Mooney 41867; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10681.  ESTCW1886.

6.  [Boston]: Sold [by T.  & J.  Fleet] at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill, Boston, [1769?] 16p.  ill.; ?0.  Private Collections, Chester, Pennsylvania Shelfmark: Emerson Greenaway (1966) In verse.  Relief cut (Reilly 1364) on title page and p.  12 signed: P.F.  [i.e., Pompey Fleet].  Bristol B3069; Shipton & Mooney 41996; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10685.  ESTCW1887.

7.  Newport [R.I.]: Printed [by Solomon Southwick], [1770].  16p.  ill.; 18 cm.  Rhode Island Historical Society.  In verse.  Title vignette signed: I.W.  [i.e., John Waterman].  Bristol B3254; Shipton & Mooney 42158; Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 446; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10686.  ESTCW2339.
8.  Boston: Printed and sold at I.  Thomas's printing office near the Mill Bridge, [1771?] 15, [1]p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DB Free Library of Philadelphia Shelfmark: ROS 70 In verse.  Relief cut (Reilly 1363) on title page and p.  12 signed: I.T.  [i.e., Isaiah Thomas].  "The substance of a sermon, preached on the occasion." p.  [16].  Evans 12532; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10687; Rosenbach, A.S.W.  Children's books, 70.  ESTCW26937.

9.  Danvers [Mass.]: Printed and sold by E.  Russell, next Bell Tavern, [1776?] 16p.  ill.; ??.  Princeton University Library.  In verse.  Bristol B4346; Shipton & Mooney 43144; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10688.  ESTCW9032.  

10.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by T.  & J.  Fleet] at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, Boston, [between1780 and 1797] 16p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Bristol B5024; Bristol B7290; Shipton & Mooney 43751; Shipton & Mooney 45804; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106810.  ESTCW26938.

11.  Worcester, (Mass.): [by Isaiah Thomas], MDCLXXXVII.  [1787] 12+ p.  ill.; 12mo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DB Harvard University Houghton Library Shelfmark: *AC7.A100787p Bristol B6571; Shipton & Mooney 45146; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 10689.  ESTCW27890.

12.  Boston: Printed and sold by E.  Russell, next Liberty Pole, [1790].  Where town and country shop keepers, travelling traders, town flys, &c.  may be supplied with a number of other curious books, verses, &c, [1790] 16p.  ill.; ??.  Boston Public Library.  Boston Public Library  In verse.  Bristol B7622; Shipton & Mooney 45978; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106811.  ESTCW1888.

13.  [Windham, Conn.]: Sold [by John Byrne] the printing office, Windham, [between 1790 and 1810] 12p.; 8vo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP In verse.  Not in Evans.  Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106819.  ESTCW26936.

14.  Boston: Printed and sold by E.  Russell, near Liberty Pole, [1794]; (Price six pence.) where town and country shop keepers, travelling traders, &c.  may be supplied with sundry books, &c, [1794] 16p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Stanford University Libraries Shelfmark: KD 1794.P78 RBC Note: imp.15 16 supplied in photostat Mass.  Historical Society Brown University John Carter Brown Library  Evans 27563; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106812.  ESTCW27891.

15.  [Boston]: Printed and sold [by T.  & J.  Fleet] at the Bible & Heart, Cornhill, Boston, [1795?] 12+ p.  ill.; ??.  Private Collections Shelfmark: d'Alte Welch (1968) In verse.  Bristol B9258; Shipton & Mooney 47566.  ESTCW1889.

16.  Boston: Printed and sold at Russell's office, Essex Street, near Liberty Pole; (Price six pence.) where persons may be supplied with sundry books, &c, [1797].  16p.  ill.; 4to.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Bristol B10079; Shipton & Mooney 48236; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106813.  ESTCW26925.

17.  Hartford: Printed for the travelling booksellers, [1799].  12p.; 12mo.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: DP Evans 36166; Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut, 2526; Welch, D.A.  Amer.  children's books, 106814.  ESTCW26926.


DM64ballads(201) 
CATALOGUE Politick Maid of Suffolk.  
###The politick maid of Suffolk; or, the lawyer outwitted.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.212 Verse "Come, all ye young men and maids".  Houghton copy = 24.5 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN11927.  

NOTE Percy no 212.  Four other London listings.  Also, Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(202) 
CATALOGUE Princely Lovers Garland.  
###The princely lovers garland.  titleend [London?, 1720?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(598) Note: Cut up into two pieces Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding B.4(70) Henry E.  Huntington Library 289763 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.213 Verse "Once I read a noble volume, ".  ESTCT44329.

NOTE Percy no 213.  Two other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(203) 
CATALOGUE Patient Grizel.
###Patient Grissel.  An excellent ballad.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.215.  ESTCN10994.  

NOTE Percy no 215.  Percy 214 is William Dicey, London? 1735? Other London listings with variant titles.  Also, Newcastle; Reading.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found


DM64ballads(204) Author: Killiray, Matthew.  
CATALOGUE Poor-man's Counsellor: Or, The married Man's Guide.
###The poor man's counsellor, or, the married man's guide...  To the tune of, The poor mans comfort.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.216 A song "[C]Ome friend, if thy leisure permit thee to stay.".  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN37771.  

NOTE Percy no 216.  One London single sheet.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(205) 
CATALOGUE Palatine's Courtship.  
###The Palatine lover's courtship; to a tradesman's daughter in London.  titleend [London]: Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Since Palatine came o'er, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  3 ESTC t206807 

NOTE Percy no 217 is Northampton, Wm Dicey 1735? Three London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(206) 
CATALOGUE Princely Pastime: Or, The Huntsman's Pleasure.  

NOTE No copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(207) 
CATALOGUE Perjur'd Shepherd.  

NOTE No copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(208) 
CATALOGUE Pennyworth of Wit.  
###A choice penny worth of wit.  Or, a clear distinction between a virtuous wife and a wanton harlot.  In three parts.  titleend Northampton: printed for Paul Stevens, bookseller in Bicester, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.219 Verse "Here is a penyworth of wit".  Houghton copy = 28x38.5cm.  ESTCN15095.

NOTE Percy no 219.  Percy no 218 is London, 1760.  Other London listings.Other single sheet listings.

NORTH AMERICA:
1.  The penny worth of wit.  Here's a choice penny worth of wit, for all that stand in need of it.  Sold at the printing office in Salem [Mass.  by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, [1772 or 1773] 1 sheet; 33 x 19 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1772 Verse in three parts; first line: Here is a penny worth of wit.  Author from ninth and tenth lines of the first part: As in this verse you may behold, set forth by Mr.  William Lane.  Possible by William Lane, b.  1744, the English poet.  Imprint is the same as one used occasionally by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall in 1772 and 1773; Cf.  Tapley, Harriet S.  Salem imprints, 1768 -1825.  ..  Salem, Mass., 1927, p.  311 and 312.  Text in three columns; printed area, including row of ornaments (Reilly 696) at head of title, measures 32.3 x 17.8 cm.  Not in Evans.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  ESTCW33665.

2.  The penny worth of wit.  Here's a choice penny worth of wit, for all that stand in need of it.  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill, Boston, [not before 1780 and not after 1806] 1 sheet; 39 x 25 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1780 University of Pennsylvania Libraries Shelfmark: AB7.A100.785p Verse in three parts; first line: Here is a penny worth of wit.  Author from ninth and tenth lines of the first part: As in this verse you may behold, set forth by Mr.  William Lane.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 33.1 x 19.2 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3163.  ESTCW33666.

3.  The Pennyworth of wit.  Here's a choice pennyworth of wit, for all that stand in need of it.  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill, [not before 1780 and not after 1806] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); 25 x 22 cm.  Boston Public Library Shelfmark: RBD *XbG.361.11 Note: imp.  Verse in three parts; first line: Here is a penny worth of wit.  Author from ninth and tenth lines of the first part: As in this verse you may behold, set forth by Mr.  William Lane.  Possibly by William Lane, b.  1744, the English poet.  Text in three columns; relief cut to the left of title.  Evans 30990; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3162.  ESTCW2397.

4.  A penny worth of wit, or the merchant reclaimed.  Here is a penny worth of wit, for all who are in need of it.  United States: s.n, between [1790 and 1810] 1 sheet; 37 x 22 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1790 Verse in three parts; first line: Here is a penny worth of wit.  Author from ninth and tenth lines of the first part: As in these verses you'll behold, set forth by Mr.  William Lane.  Possibly by William Lane, b.  1744, the English poet.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area, including border ornaments at top and left side of sheet, measures 35.8 x 20.1 cm.  Not in Evans.  ESTCW33668.

5.  Pennyworth of wit.  Penny worth of wit.  Here's a choice penny worth of wit, for all who stand in need of it.  Boston: s.n., [between [1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 33 x 24 cm.  Verse of 252 lines; first line: Here is a penny worth of wit.  Author from ninth and tenth lines: As in this verse you may behold, set forth by William Lane.  Possibly by William Lane, b.  1744, the English poet.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  III, no.  67, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf.  Ford, W.C.  The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 30.7 x 21.2 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3165; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 208 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(209) 
CATALOGUE Pretty Green-coat Boy.
###The pretty green coat boy's garland.  In four parts.  titleend [London]: Printed und [sic] sold in Bow Church yard, Lond[on], [1750?] 1 sheet; obl.1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(253) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB76.P4128C no.220 Note: variant Verse "You pretty young maidens and batchelors sweet, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; no space following 'pretty' in title; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Variant has space between 'pretty' and 'green coat' in title line; imprint word is 'London', not 'Lond'.  ESTCT44273.  

NOTE Percy 220.  Percy no 221 is also London, Bow.  Other London and 8p.  listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(210) 
CATALOGUE Pretty Sally's Garland.  
###Pretty Sally's garland.  Or, Johnny's kind courtship.  In two parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse in two parts.  The anonymous first part is by Henry Carey: " Of all the girls that are so smart, ".  The second part, entitled 'Pretty Sally's answer', begins: "Of all the lads in London town, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts over the first two; columns separated by ornamental rules.  Bodleian Library: Harding B.4(56) (Verified) Cambridge University Library ESTCT192194.

NOTE Other London listings.  Also, Banbury.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(211) 
CATALOGUE Queen Elizabeth's Champion: Or, The Earl of Essex.  
###Queen Elizabeth's champion; or, a famous sea fight between the Emperor of Germany, and the Earl of Essex.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1725?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Folger Shakespeare Library PR1181.B2 Note: "w" in "Bow " in imprint appears to have been broken Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Note: "w" in "Bow " in imprint appears to have been broken Oxford University Bodleian Library Harding 20(II) Note: "w" in "Bow " in imprint appears to have been broken A song "Come sound up your trumpets, and beat up your drums, ".  ESTCN25698.

NOTE Also, Newcastle..  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(212) 
CATALOGUE Queen Eleanor's Confession.  
###Queen Eleanor's confession.  Shewing, how King Henry, with the Earl Marshal, in friar's habits, came to her, instead of two friars from France, which she sent for.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.223 Verse "Queen Eleanor was a sick woman".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 24x36.5cm.  ESTCN14615.

NOTE Percy no 223.  Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle, Marchbank, [1720?], one of only three survivings imprints by him.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(213) 
CATALOGUE Quaker's Sermon.

NOTE Not identified.  See Patters.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(214) 
CATALOGUE Roman Charity.  
###A worthy example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk, he being commanded by the emperor to be starved to death, but afterwards pardoned.  titleend London: sold in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, C.116.i.2(12) Manchester, Chetham's Library, Manchester, England H.P.212 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.297 Verse "In Rome I read a nobleman".  ESTCT98981.

NOTE Percy no 297.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: See Music in Colonial Massachusetts (Boston, 1980), I pp.  299-304 for a discussion of these items.  
1.  Worthy example of a married daughter: who fed her father with her own milk, he being commanded by the emperor to be starved to death, and afterwards pardoned.  To the tune of Flying fame.  [Boston]: Sold [by T.  and J.  Fleet] at the Bible & Heart, in Boston, [between 1776 and 1797] 1 sheet: ill.; 32 x 22 cm.  New York Public Library.  Note: imp.  In verse.  First lines: In Rome, I read, a nobleman the emperor did offend.  Other editions have The Grecian daughter.  Dated [176?] by Bristol.  However, Thomas and John Fleet printed at the sign of the Bible & Heart from 1776 through 1797.  Text in three columns.  Bristol B2106; Shipton & Mooney 41107.  ESTCW17215.

2.  A Worthy example of a virtuous wife ...  Boston: Printed by E.  Russell, near Liberty Pole, Octo.  7, 1794.  Sold by Jonathan Hallowell travelling trader, in Bridgewater, [1794] [Bridgewater, Mass.] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cuts); 41 x 27 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1794 Harvard University Houghton Library, Shelfmark: *pEB.A100.624wg Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey Shelfmark: Graphic Arts (Hamilton) Verse in forty four numbered stanzas; first lines: In Rome I read a nobleman, the emperor did offend.  Other editions have The Grecian daughter.  Relief cuts flanking title; text in three columns; printed area measures 36.6 x 23.6 cm.  Evans 28136; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2735.  ESTCW20952.

3.  The Grecian daughter.  Or, an example of a virtuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk--he being condemned to be starved to death by Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome; but was afterwards pardoned, and the daughter highly rewarded.  Windsor [Vt.]: Printed for the flying book-sellers [by Alden Spooner, 1798?] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); 54 x 43 cm.American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass..  BR 1798 F.  Verse of 176 lines; first line: In Rome there liv'd a nobleman the emp'ror did offend.  Engraving signed: R.E.S.Earlier edition (Evans 28136) printed by Ezekiel Russell in 1794 has title: A Worthy example of a virtuous wife.  Text in five columns; printed area, including engraving, measures 46.5 x 37.5 cm.  Evans 33815; McCorison, M.A.  Vermont, 486.  ESTCW34072.  

4.  The Grecian daughter, or An example of a virtuous wife, ...  [Boston]: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.  Milk-Street--Corner of Theatre Alley, Boston., [between 1810 and 1824] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cut); 54 x 37 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0--1810.  Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810.


DM64ballads(215)
CATALOGUE Royal Dream: Or, The Forrester's Garland.  
###The royal dream: or, the forester's garland.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.224 Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.225 Verse "As I in my closet was reading alone".  ESTCN12852.

NOTE Percy nos 224 and 225.  The only single sheet versions.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(216) 
CATALOGUE Roger's Delight.  
###Roger's delight; or, the west country christ'ning and gossiping.  titleend Northampton: printed by R.  Raikes and W.  Dicey; and sold by Matthias Dagnel in Aylesbury and Leighton, Stephen Dagnel in Chesham, William Ratten in Coventry, Thomas William in Tring; Nathan Ward in Reading; William Royce, Oxford; Paul Stephens in Bister; Anthony Thorpe in St.  Albans; Mr.  Franksat Wooburne; William Peachy in Cambridge; and by Chururd Brady in St.  Ives, [1720] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(855) Verse "The stars tript in the firmament, ".  With, on the verso: 'The Bubblers bubbled, or the Devil take the hindmost.', Northampton, 1720.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCT45185.  

NOTE Also, London, Walter, 1705?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(217) 
CATALOGUE Rag-Fair.  
###The humours of rag fair: or the countryman's description of their several trades and callings.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.117 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  2 Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Harding B.3(73) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina PR3291.H85 1760 Verse "Last week in Lent I came to town, ".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 37 cm.  ESTCN1950.  

NOTE Percy no 117.  Percy no 118 is Worcester.  Other London listings.  Also, Canterbury, 1745?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(218) 
CATALOGUE Robinhood and the Ranger.  
###Robin Hood and the ranger; or, true friendship after a fierce fight.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.227 Verse "When Phebus had melted the sickles of ice".  Houghton copy = 23 x 36.5 cm.  ESTCN13045.

NOTE Percy No 277.  No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(219) 
CATALOGUE Ditto and Little John.  
###Robin Hood and Little John.  Being an account of their first meeting, and fierce encounter and conquest.  To which is added, their friendly agreement: and how he came to be call'd Little John.  titleend Northampton: printed for Robert Dicey, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.228 Verse "When Robin Hood was about twenty years old".  "Introductory note reprinted from 'A collection of old ballads', 1723 25, I, 75 6.  ESTCN13043.  

NOTE Percy no 228.  Three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(220) 
CATALOGUE Ditto and Allen-a-dale.  
###Robin Hood and Allen a Dale: or the manner of Robin Hood's rescuing a young lady from an old knight, and restoring her to Allen a Dale her former love.  Tune of, Robin Hood in the Green Wood.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Verse "Come listen to me, you gallants so free".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT206862.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(221) Author: Robins, Thomas, fl.  1672 1685.  
CATALOGUE Ditto and the Butcher.  

NOTE No copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(222) 
CATALOGUE Ditto and Will Stutely.  
###Robin Hood's rescuing Will.  Stutely from the sheriff and his men, who had taken him prisoner, and were going to hang him, &c.  To the tune of, Robin Hood and Queen Catherine.  titleend London: printed by William and Cluer Dicey; and sold at their printing office in Northampton, [1740?] 1 sheet: ill.; 10.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.229 A song "When Robin Hood in the green wood stood".  "Headnote and illustration extracted from 'A collection of old ballads'(1723 25) I, 90 91."(Houghton).  Houghton copy = 29.5 x 39.5 cm.  ESTCN13048.

NOTE Percy no 229.  One other listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(223) 
CATALOGUE Rakish Husband's Garland.  
###The rakish husband's garland.  titleend London: printed and sold by W.  and C.  Dicey, in St.  Mary Aldermary Church yard, in Bow Lane, Cheapside.  Sold also at their warehouse in Northampton, [1745?] 1 sheet; 1.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.230 A song "You gallant beaus of pleasure, ".  William and Cluer Dicey were in business together 1736 54 (Plomer).  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy = 23.5x38.5cm.  ESTCN12725.

NOTE Percy no 230.  Other London listings 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(224) 
CATALOGUE Reading Garland.  
###The Reading garland.  Or, Dick and Kate's happy marriage.  Tune of, The royal forester.  titleend London?, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections *PR1181.C92 no.24 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 A song "Ye pretty young maids that have mourn'd many years".  CLU S/C copy: 24.5x37cm.  ESTCN27867.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(225) 
CATALOGUE Repentance too late.  
###Repentance too late: or.  Celia's complaint for the loss of her virginity.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? Verse "Sad as death, at dead of night, ".  MH: 25242.61F* 24r.  ESTC n021474.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(226) 
CATALOGUE Rich Man's Warning-Piece.  
###The rich man's warning piece; or, the oppressed infants in glory.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1770?].  8p., ill; 8vo.  Horizontal chain lines.  British Library: 11621.e.4(1) ESTCT100716.  

NOTE No single sheet copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(227) 
CATALOGUE Somersetshire Garland.  
###The Somersetshire garland: or the serving man bound apprentice to his mistress.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.238 Verse "Near Somersetshire lived a squire of fame".  Houghton copy: 24x37cm.  ESTCN23794.

NOTE Percy no 238.  No other copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(228) 
CATALOGUE Strand Garland.  
###The Strand garland.  In four parts...  titleend [Newcastle?]: Licensed and enter'd according to order, [1785?] 8p.; 8vo.  British Library 11621.c.4(64) National Library of Scotland Lauriston Collection 2751(48) ESTCT48721.  

NOTE Two other single sheet London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(229) 
CATALOGUE Somersetshire Tragedy.
###The lovers tragedy: or, the wronged lady's lamentation and untimely death.  To the tune of, No more cruel nymph.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.144 A song "Sir William a knight of six thousand a year".  Also, published in London as 'The Somersetshire tragedy: or, the wronged lady's lamentation'.ESTCN4561.  

NOTE Percy no 144.  Also, London Aldermary, 1750? 

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(230) 
CATALOGUE Slighted Father and unnatural Son.  
###The slighted father: or, the unnatural son justly reclaimed.  titleend [London]: Printea [sic] ana [sic] sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.240 Verse "A wealthy man of late, we hear".  Another edition of 'A cabinet of good counsel'.  Houghton copy = 23.5x36.5cm.; publication date from Houghton.  ESTCN21227.  

NOTE Percy no 240.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(231) 
CATALOGUE Seaman of Dover.  
###The seaman of Dover.  titleend [London]: printed and sold in Aldermary church yard London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; 1/2? A song "A seaman of Dover, whose excellent part".  Also, published as 'The Maidstone garland'.  Houghton: *pEB75.P4128C no.241 ESTCN021072.

NOTE Percy no 241.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(232)
CATALOGUE Spinning wheel's Glory.

NOTE No copy located, although the title occurs in song collections and see above Good Housewife.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(233) 
CATALOGUE Seven Champions.  
###The seven champions of Christendom.  Being a compendious history of their lives and actions, &c.  To the tune of, The Christian warriors.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 10.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.242 National Library of Scotland A song "Now of the seven champions here".  ESTCN21245.  

NOTE Percy no 242.  No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(234) 
CATALOGUE Swimming Lady.  
###The swimming lady: or, a wanton discovery.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.243 Verse "The four and twentieth day of May".  Houghton copy = 22x37.5cm.  ESTCN21556.  

NOTE Percy no 243.  No other copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(235) 
CATALOGUE Shepherd Adonis.  
###Shepherd Adonis; or, the contented lovers.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Shepherd Adonis, being weary of his sport, ".  In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  British Library: L.R.271.a.2/1.2(11) (Verified) Cambridge University Library.  ESTCT048031.  

NOTE One other London listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(236) 
CATALOGUE Spanish Lady.  
###The Spanish lady's love.  titleend London: printed by William Dicey, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.245 Anonymous.  By Thomas Deloney.  A song "Will you hear of a Spanish lady".  Not in Foxon.  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy: 21.5x34.5cm.  ESTCN23925.  

NOTE Percy no 245.  Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(237) 
CATALOGUE St.  George and the King of Aegypt's Daughter.  
###An excellent ballad of St.  George for England and the King of AEgypt's daughter whom he delivered from death, and how he slew a monstrous dragon, &c.  To the tune of Flying fame.  titleend [London?, 1710?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(849) "Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing".  ESTCT33698.  

NOTE No Aldermary or Bow.  One other London listing.  Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(238) 
CATALOGUE Sweet William of Plymouth.  
###Sweet William of Plymouth.  titleend London: printed by William Dicey in Bow Church Yard, [1735?] 1 sheet: ill.; 10.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.247 Verse "A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name".  Not in Foxon.  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy: 28.5x39cm.  ESTCN22081.

NOTE Percy no 247.  Other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The Fortunate lovers: or Sweet William of Plymouth.  [New London, Conn.]: Printed and sold [by Timothy Green?] in New London, [1774?] 1 sheet; ?.  Connecticut Historical Society.  Yale University Beinecke Rare Books Library Shelfmark: 1991 38 Verse in four numbered parts.  The only known copy, held by Connecticut Historical Society, is mutilated.  Text in three columns.  Bristol B11194; Shipton & Mooney 49071; Johnson, H.  New London, 986.  ESTC ESTCW35147.

2.  Sweet William of Plymouth.  Mass.?: s.n, [between 1790 and 1810] 1 sheet; 43 x 19 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1790 Verse in four numbered parts; first line: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name.  Included in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, ballads &c.  printed in Mass.  ..  no.  3355.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 37.1 x 15.3 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3355.  ESTCW33701.

3.  Sweet William of Plymouth.  [Boston]: N.  Coverly, Jr.  printer, Milk Street, Boston ..., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cuts); 44 x 24 cm.  Verse of 200 lines; first lines: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name, a wooing to beautiful Susan he came.  Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.  is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810.  American Antiquarian Society copy folded and bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  III, no.  5, presented to the society in August 1814.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 38.4 x 18.8 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 259 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).

4.  Sweet William of Plymouth.  United States: s.n., [between 1810 and 1830?] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 49 x 18 cm.  Verse in fifty stanzas; first lines: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name, a wooing to beautiful Susan he came.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 48.1 x 16.6 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Shoemaker 0; Checklist Amer.  imprints 0 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810.

5.  Sweet William of Plymouth.  [Providence]: Sold wholesale and retail, at no.  78 North Main Street, Providence., [between 1810 and 1830?] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 28 x 22 cm.  Verse in fifty stanzas; first lines: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William, by name, a wooing to beautiful Susan he came.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 24.7 x 20.2 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Shoemaker 0; Checklist Amer.  imprints 0 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810.

6.  Sweet William of Plymouth.  The fortunate lovers; or Sweet William of Plymouth.  [United States: s.n., between 1810 and 1830?] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 36 x 30 cm.  Verse in four numbered parts; first lines: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name, a wooing to beautiful Susan he came.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 31.1 x 25.0 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Shoemaker 0; Checklist Amer.  imprints 0 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810.  

7.  Sweet William of Plymouth[.] [Boston]: Sold wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming, corner of Merchant's Row and Market Square, Boston, where may be found the largest and best assortment of ballads and songs that can be had in New England., [between 1829 and 1832] 1 sheet ([1] p.); 34 x 21 cm.  Verse of 200 lines; first lines: A seaman of Plymouth, sweet William by name, a wooing to beautiful Susan he came.  Leonard Deming was at this address, also given as no.  1 south side of Faneuil Hall, from 1829 to 1831.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 32.1 x 15.9 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Checklist Amer.  imprints 0 American Antiquarian Society copy is an electrostatic copy of original held by the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  CALL NUMBER(S): BDSDS.  1829 (photocopy).  


DM64ballads(239) 
CATALOGUE Suffolk Comedy.  
###The Suffolk comedy; in three parts.  To the tune of Phillis the lovely.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, [1760] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(73) Harvard University Houghton Library: pEB75.P4128C no.248 Verse "You young men and maidens of beauty most bright".  ESTCT48818.

NOTE Percy no 248.  One other London listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(240) 
CATALOGUE Secret Lovers.  
###The secret lovers: Or, The jealous father beguil'd.  Loves passion is not easily kept under, nor faithful lovers to be kept asunder; because you know the proverb it is so, that love will creep, when as it cannot go.  To a west country tune: or, Alack for my love I must die.  titleend [London]: Printed for J.  Walter, at the golden ball in pye corner, [between 1650 and 1705?] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (woodcuts); obl.  1.  Oxford University Bodleian Library, Oxford, England Douce Ballads 2(131) Verse "A dainty spruce young gallant".  ESTC r233797.  

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(241) 
CATALOGUE Suffolk Miracle.
###The Suffolk miracle.  Or a relation of a young man, who, a month after his death, appeared to his sweetheart, ...  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the pinting office [sic] in Bow church yard, London, [1765?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.249 Verse "A wonder stranger ne'er was known".  ESTCN24563.

NOTE Percy no 249.  Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(242) 
CATALOGUE St.  George and the Dragon.  
###A new ballad of St.  George and the dragon titleend London: printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, Bow Lane, [1750?].  1 sheet; 1/2? British Library: Rox.  III(720) ESTCT039781.

NOTE Percy no 251 is London, 1760? Other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(243) 
CATALOGUE Sir Launcelot-du-Lake.  
###A famous battle fought between Sir Lancelot du Lake, and the famous giant Tarquin.  titleend London?, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.252 Verse "Within this ancient British land".  ESTCN8306.

NOTE Percy no 252.  No other copies.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(244) 
CATALOGUE Staffordshire Maid.  
###The Staffordshire maid.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Verse "Come all ye young gallants and listen a while, ".  In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  In this edition the sequence of woodcuts is: a man with a walking stick leaving a house; two men talking to a woman; a group of men with staves.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  3 ESTCT206906.  

NOTE Percy no 254 is [Worcester]: Sold by S.  Gamidge, Worcester; W.  Lloyd, in Mortimer Cleobury; Mr.  Taylor, in Kidderminster; and S.  Harward, in Tewkesbury, [1765?].

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(245) 
CATALOGUE Simple Simon.  
###Simple Simon's misfortunes; and Margery's cruelty.  Shewing how he drank a bottle of sack to poison himself, being weary of his life.  To the tune of The delights of the bottle.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.255 A song "Come listen a while, and here I will relate".  Publication date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 25x37.5cm.  ESTCN23245.  

NOTE Percy no 255.  Two other London single sheet listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(246) 
CATALOGUE Three Jolly Butchers and Ten Highwaymen.  
###A new ballad, or, the three jolly butchers and ten highwaymen.  titleend [London?, 1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 "I'll tell you a story of lovely butchers three".  In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by rules.  On three butchers called Wilson, Gibson and Johnson.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCT206926.  

NOTE No other copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(247) 
CATALOGUE Temple Wedding.  
###The temple wedding: or, love at first sight.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.259 Harvard University Libraries, 25242.61F* 23r Verse "In London fair city a young man and a maid".  Publication date from Houghton.  ESTCN13504.

NOTE Percy No 259.  Other London listings.  Also, Bristol; Stockport; Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(248) 
CATALOGUE Turn-coat of the Times.  
###A turn coat of the times.  Who doth by experience, profess and protect; that of all professions a turn coat's the best.  To a pleasant tune much in request.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard.  Bow Lane, London.  illegible, [1760?] 1 sheet( 1] p.): ill.; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(362) ESTC r217117.  

NOTE This dating in ESTCTo 1665? seems wrong.  I have redated to 1760? No other copy.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(249) 
CATALOGUE True Lover's Knot unty'd.  
###The true lovers knot unty'd.  Being the right path to advise princely virgins how to behave themselves.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(70) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.260 Verse "As I to Ireland did pass, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT51898.  

NOTE Percy No 260.  Other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(250) 
CATALOGUE True Lover's Joy: Or, A Dialogue between a Seaman and his Love.  
###The true lovers joy: or, a dialogue between a seaman and his love.  titleend Northampton?, [1740?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.261 Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Verse "Hark Charon, come away".  Publication place and date from Houghton.  Houghton copy = 22.5 x36 cm.  On the verso of the Houghton copy are printed four hand bills for Joseph Williams of Northampton.  Not in Foxon.  ESTCN14151.  

NOTE Percy no 161.  No other 18th-century listing.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(251)
CATALOGUE Two Faithful Lovers.  
###The two faithful lovers, or, A merry song in praise of Betty...  tune of, The amorous damsel of Bristol city by T.B.  titleend [London]: Printed for J.  Wright, J.  Clark, W.  Thackery, and T.  Passinger, [1686] 1 sheet( 2] p.): ill.  ESTC r19526.  

NOTE No 18th-century listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(252)
CATALOGUE Thomas Stukely.  
###The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely, an English gentleman, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; who ended his life in the battle of the three kings of Barbary.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1710?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(528) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.262 Anonymous.  By Richard Johnson.  Verse "In the west of Eagland [sic], ".  ESTCT40922.

NOTE Percy no 262.  The date is probably wrong.  Also, London, Norris 1705.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(253) 
CATALOGUE Tom and Will: Or, the Shepherd's Sheepfold.  
###Tom and Will; or, the shepherd's sheepfold.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office, in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.263 Harvard University Libraries 25242.61F* 12r Verse "Tom.  and Will.  were shepherds swains".  ESTCN13483.  

NOTE Percy no 263.  One other London listing.  Also, Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(254) 
CATALOGUE Tavern Kitchen Fray.  
###The tavern kitchen fray: or, a dialogue between Nell and her mistress.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.264 Verse "In a tavern kitchen, the cook's territories, ".  Houghton copy = 23 x 36 cm.  ESTC n13586.  

NOTE Percy No 264.  Other London listings.  Also, Tewkesbury..  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(255) Author: M.  P.(Martin Parker) , d.  1656? 
CATALOGUE Time's Alteration.  
###Times alteration: or, The old mans rehearsall, what braue dayes he knew a great while agone, when his old cap was new.  To the tune of, He nere be drunke againe.  titleend [London]: Printed by the assignes of Thomas Symcocke, [1629] 1 sheet( 1] p.): ill.; 10.  British Library Rox.  I.406 Signed: M.P., i.e.  Martin Parker.  Verse "VVhen this old cap was new, ".  ESTCS119386.

NOTE No 18th-century copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(256) 
CATALOGUE True Love rewarded with Loyalty.  
###True love rewarded with loyality [sic], or, mirth and joy after sorrow and sadness.  titleend [London, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.265 A song "As I walk'd forth to take the air".  Houghton copy = 21 x 33 cm.  ESTCN14150.  

NOTE Percy no 265.  One other London listing.  Also, Canterbury; Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(257) 
CATALOGUE Tit for Tat.  
###Tit for tat: or the merry wives of Wapping.  titleend London: printed and sold at No.  4, Aldermary churchyard, [1775?].  1 sheet; 1/2? Verse "All you that delight in my frolicksome song ".  British Library: L.R.31.b.19(236) ESTCT050359.  

NOTE Percy no 266 is London, Printing Office, in Stonecutter, Fleet market, 1765? Also, three other London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(258) 
CATALOGUE Turkey Factor.  
###The Turkey factor.  In four parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.268 A song "Behold here's a ditty, 'tis true and no jest".  Houghton copy = 23.5 x 37 cm.  ESTCN14224.

NOTE Percy no 268.  Other London listings.  Also, Worcester.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The Factor's garland.  Or the Turkish lady.  [Boston]: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill, Boston, [not before 1780 and not after 1806] 1 sheet; 21 x 36 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1780 Verse in 228 lines; first line: Behold here's a ditty, the truth and no jest.  Text in four columns; printed area measures 20.7 x 31.1 cm.  Not in Evans.  ESTCW33573.

2.  The Factor's garland.  Mass.?: s.n, [between 1790 and 1810] 1 sheet; 23 x 36 cm.  American Antiquarian Society Shelfmark: BR 1790 Verse in 192 lines; first line: Behold here's a ditty, the truth and no jest.  Included in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, ballads &c.  printed in Mass.  ..  no.  3092.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in four columns; printed area measures 21.0 x 33.0 cm.  Not in Evans.  Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3092.  ESTCW33572.

3.  The Factor's garland.  [Deerfield, Mass.?]: Printed for Erastus Frary, [180?] 1 sheet; 31 x 26 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 180 Verse of 228 lines; first line: Behold here's a ditty the truth and no jest.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Probably printed at Deerfield, Mass., where Erastus Frary resided.  Text in three columns; printed area measures 28.8 x 21.7 cm.  Not in Evans.  Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.  ESTCW33424.  


DM64ballads(259) 
CATALOGUE Unnatural Father: Or, The Dutiful Son's Reward.  
###The unnatural father: or, the dutiful son's reward.  titleend London: printed and sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library LR31.b.19(194) Note: Cut up and pasted down British Library 1880.b.29(2) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.271 Verse "Here is a looking glass for childreu [sic] dear ".  This edition contains ornaments.  ESTCT50502.

NOTE Percy no 271.  Other London listings.  Also, Banbury.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(260) 
CATALOGUE Unhappy Lady of Hackney.  
###The unhappy lady of Hackney.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Devon Record Office, Exeter 9972/Z14 A song "You youthful charming ladies fair, ".  ESTCT175563.

NOTE Percy no 272 is London, How, 1765? Other London listings.  See also above, Hackney Lady.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(261) 
CATALOGUE Unhappy Lover's Garland.  
###The unhappy lovers garland.  In three parts.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(21) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.273 Verse "Hard by a sweet delightful green, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT50429.

NOTE Percy no 273.  Two other London listings.  Also, Worcester 2p.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(262) 
CATALOGUE Virgin's Complaint.  
###The kind virgins complaint against a young man's unkindness...  To the tune of, Cupid's courtesy, &c.  titleend [Newcastle?, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(138) British Library Rox.  III(482) Verse "I am so deep in love, ".  ESTCT29407.

NOTE One other listing, London 1701?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(263) 
CATALOGUE Virtuous Milkmaid's Garland.  
###The virtuous milk maid's garland.  Tune of, Ah, ah, ah, my dear.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  British Library L.R.31.b.19(182) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Harvard University Houghton Library.  Verse "Draw near you young lovers, and I'll let you know, ".  Includes 'An excellent new playhouse song, entitled, The 'squire in the grove'.  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  ESTCT50949.

NOTE Another London listing.  Also, Coventry, 1765?

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(264)
CATALOGUE Virtuous Wife's Pattern.  
###Love for love: or, a dialogue between a loving husband and a virtuous wife.  Being a pattern for all young men and maids.  titleend London: printed by Rich.  Newcomb, in Wine Office Court in Fleetstreet, [1710?] 8p.; 8vo.  University of California, Los Angeles, William Andrews Clark Library *PN6234.T75 no.1 Verse.  Other Newcomb publications with same address dated 1710, 1711, 1713.  Foxon L283.  ESTCN3064.

NOTE No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


 DM64ballads(265)
CATALOGUE Valiant Seaman's Happy Return.  
###The galant seamans return from the Indies, or the happy meeting of two faithful lovers.  Wherein is shewed the loyal constancy of a seaman to his love, with her kind salutation unto him for his welcome home.  Observe this song which is both neat and pretty Tis on a seaman in his praise of Betty.  Tune of Five sail of frigots, or Shrewsbury By T.L.  With allowance.  titleend [London]: Printed for W.  Thackery, and T.  Passenger, [1687?] 1 sheet: ill.(woodcuts); obl.  1/20.  Oxford University Bodleian Library Douce Ballads 866 T.L.  = Thomas Lanfiere.  Place of publication from Wing; suggested publication date in Wing = [1686-88].  Verse "I am a stout Seaman newly come on shore".  ESTC r216142.  

NOTE No 18th-century copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(266) 
CATALOGUE Virtue and Beauty in Danger.
###Virtue and beauty in danger; or, King Edward's courting the London virgin.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Verse "Fair angel of England, thy beauty most bright, ".  Includes 'The virgin's answer'.  In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  No full stop at end of title.  ESTCT206972.

NOTE Also, Newcastle.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(267) 
CATALOGUE Woody Choristers: Or, The Birds Harmony.  
###The woody choristers: or, the birds harmony.  In two parts....  titleend [London?, 1775?].  1 sheet; 1/2? A song "Oh! said the cuckow loud and stout, ".  Without border ornaments.  Also, published under title 'The birds lamentation'.  British Library: L.R.271.a.2/1.2(25) ESTCT052701.

NOTE Percy no 281 is London, 1760.  Other London listings.  Also, Newcastle.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(268) 
CATALOGUE Weaver's Garland.  
###The weaver's garland: or, a new school of Christian patience.  titleend [London?, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Verse "Sweet, dear and loving wife, ".  In six columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules.  ESTCT207020.

NOTE Percy 282 is Worcester, 1765? Other London listings.  Also, Dudley.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(269) 
CATALOGUE Worcestershire Wedding.  

NOTE No copy located.  Cf.  The valiant virgin; or, Phillip and Mary; In a description of a young gentlewoman of Worcestershire (a rich gentlemans daughter) being in love with a farmers son, which her father despiseing, because he was poore, caus'd him to be prest to sea; ...  Her father dyeing whilst she was at sea, (he having no more children then she) they went into the countrey to take possession of her estate, and to marry; to the admiration of all that were at the wedding.  (London, Printed for Thomas Passenger [1672?].  ESTC r228728.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(270) 
CATALOGUE Wiltshire Wedding.  
###The Wiltshire wedding, between Daniel Do well, and Doll the dairy maid...  To an excellent tune.  titleend [London]: printed and sold in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(286) Verse "All in a misty morning".  ESTCT52547 

NOTE One other London listing.  Also, Canterbury.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(271) 
CATALOGUE Winchester Wedding.
###The Winchester wedding: or, Ralph of Reading, and Black Bess of the green.  Tune The King's jigg.  titleend [London?, [1701?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  British Library RoxIII(314) Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.284 Verse "At Winchester there was a wedding".  ESTCT52552.  

NOTE Percy no 284.  No other copy located.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(272) 
CATALOGUE William and Margaret.  
###A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of William and Margaret.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the prining office [sic], in Aldermary Church Yard, London, [1760?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? Anonymous.  By David Mallet.  "When all was wrapt in dark midnight, ".  In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  Cambridge University Library, Madden garlands, vol.  3 ESTCT207025.

NOTE Other London listings.  Also, Northampton, Dicey, 1750?

NORTH AMERICA: 
Margaret's ghost.  [Boston]: s.n., [between 1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cuts); 29 x 23 cm.  Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: When all was wrapt in dark midnight.  Ascribed to David Mallet in Philbrick, Thomas L.  "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection, " Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v.  9, 1957, p.  255 258.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  I, no.  118, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf.  Ford, W.C.  The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.2 x 16.7 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 163 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).


DM64ballads(273) 
CATALOGUE Windsor Lady.
###The Windsor lady.  To an excellent northern tune.  titleend Published [London]: Printed and sold in Bow church , ard [sic], [London, 1775?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/20.  Cambridge University Library Madden garlands, vol.  3 Manchester, Chetham's Library HP 3076 Verse "In Windsor famous town did dwell, ".  In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.  Another edition, from 42 Long Lane, has identical text layout and woodcuts but is without "To an excellent northern tune".  The Long Lane edition is at ESTC t52565.  ESTCT207030.

NOTE Percy no 285 is London?, 1780? One other London listing.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(274) 
CATALOGUE Wanton Wife of Bath.
###The wanton wife of Bath.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church Yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.286 Verse "In Bath a wanton wife did dwell".  Houghton copy = 24x37.5cm.  ESTCN25110.  

NOTE Percy no 286.  Other London listings.  Also, Bristol; Worcester 2p.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(275) 
CATALOGUE Wanton Virgins frighted.  
###The wanton virgins frighted: with the spy's down fall from the tree top; to the pond bottom.  titleend [London, 1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.287 Verse "You that delight in a jocular song".  Houghton copy = 20x36cm.  ESTCN25109.

NOTE Percy no 287.  Other London listings.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(276) 
CATALOGUE Wandering Shepherdess.
###The wandering shepherdess.  titleend London: printed and sold at the printing Office in Bow Church Yard, [1750?] 1 sheet; 1/2.  British Library, L.R.31.b.19(286) Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.288 Verse.  "You that do know what to true love belong.".  ESTCT52196.  

NOTE Percy no 288.  Other London listings.  Also, Edinburgh..  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(277) 
CATALOGUE Wandering Prince of Troy.  
###An excellent old ballad, entitled, The wandering Prince of Troy.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1750?].  1 sheet, ill.; obl.1/2? "When Troy town had for ten years wars, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  In this edition the colophon is in italics.  British Library: Rox.  III(730) (Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves.  With MS.  corrections) (Verified) Cambridge University Library ESTCT033747.

NOTE Other London listings.  Also, Canterbury; Newcastle; Worcester.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(278) 
CATALOGUE Wandering Jew.  
###The wandering Jew: or, the shoemaker of Jerusalem.  Who lived when our lord and saviour Jesus Christ was crucified, and by him appointed to live till his coming again.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.290 Verse "When as in fair Jerusalem, ".  In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  In this issue the third line of the title ends "was", the imprint is printed under both columns of text, and the fourth line of text ends with a semi colon.  ESTCN60547.  

NOTE Percy no 290.  Other London listings.  Also, Edinburgh.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(279) 
CATALOGUE William and Prudence's Overthrow.  

NOTE No copy located.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(280) 
CATALOGUE William Grismond's Downfal.  
###William Grismond's downfal; or, a lamentable murther by him committed in Lainterdine, in the county of Hereford, on March 12th, 1650: Together with his lamentation.  To the tune of, where is my love, &c.  titleend Newcastle: printed for and sold by John White, [1715?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(606) Verse "Oxford Bodleian Library.  come you wilful young men, ".  ESTCT52524.  

NOTE One other London, Olney, circa 1700.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(281) 
CATALOGUE Warning piece to England against Pride and Wickedness.  
###A warning piece to England, against pride and wickedness.  Being the fall of Queen Eleanor, wife to Edward I.  King of England; who, for her pride, by God's judgment, sunk into the ground at Charing Cross, and rose at Queen hithe.  To the tune of, Gentle and courteous.  titleend Northampton: printed by William Dicey, [1730?] 1 sheet; 10.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C.291/2 A song "When Edward was in England king".  Not in Foxon.  Houghton copy: 28.5x40cm.  ESTCN25136.

NOTE Percy no 291 and 292.  Also, Newcastle 1p.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(282) 
CATALOGUE Warwickshire Tragedy.  
###The Warwickshire tragedy, or, joy after sorrow.  titleend Coventry: printed and sold rt [sic] the printing o[ffice] in Broad gate, [1760?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/2.  Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.293 Note: part of imprint has failed to print Verse "In the county of Warwick.".  ESTCN25140.  

NOTE Percy no 293.  Two London listings.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(283) 
CATALOGUE William and Susan.  
###William and Susan.  titleend [London, 1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1.  Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois Case fY17.185 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.294 Harvard University Houghton Library, *pEB75.P4128C no.295 Anonymous.  By John Gay.  First published as 'Sweet William's farewell to black ey'd Susan'.  A song "All in the downs the fleet was moor'd, " Apparently another issue of the broadside "printed and sold at No.  4, Aldermary church yard", [1790?], but without the colophon.  ESTCN6006.

NOTE Percy no 294 and no 295.  Other London listings.  Also, Wolverhampton.

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  Black ey'd Susan's lamentation for the departure of her sweet William, who was impress'd to go to sea.  To an excellent new tune.  [Boston]: Sold at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill, Boston, [1731?] 1 sheet: ill.  (relief cut); ?.  Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut .  Song in two parts; first line: All in the downs the fleet was moor'd.  Attributed to John Gay in the Dictionary of national biography, where it is cited as Sweet William's farewell to black ey'd Susan.  Dated [176?] by Bristol.  Text in two columns; relief cut of a naval engagement (Reilly 1126) at left of title.  Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.  Not before 1731 and not after 1776.  Bristol B2092; Shipton & Mooney 41095.  ESTCW34962.  

2.  [Sweet William's farewell to black ey'd Susan.] Love songs.  [United States, 1790?] 1 sheet; 33 x 19 cm.  American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.  Shelfmark: BR 1775 Two songs.  Black eyed Susan, attributed to John Gay in the Dictionary of national biography, where it is cited as Sweet William's farewell to Black ey'd Susan; first line: All in the downs the fleet was moor'd.  The False hearted lover, first lines: A false hearted knight once there was who courted a lady gay.  Imprint dates suggested by typography.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.3 x 14.9 cm.  Not in Evans.  Not before 1775 and not after 1810.  ESTCW33630.

3.  Black ey'd Susan.  Boston: s.n., [between [1810 and 1814] 1 sheet ([1] p.): ill.  (relief cut); 27 x 22 cm.  Song in two parts, with subtitles "Sweet William's departure" and "Susan's lamentation"; first lines: All in the downs the fleet was moor'd [and] Where is sweet William, where is my dear.  Black ey'd Susan attributed to John Gay in the Dictionary of national biography, where it is cited as Sweet William's farewell to black ey'd Susan.  American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v.  I, no.  113, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.  Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, Cf.  Ford, W.C.  The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.  Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.5 x 18.7 cm.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0; Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 0; Ford, W.C.  Thomas ballads, 20 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; BDSDS.  1810 (RE F 1814).  


DM64ballads(284) 
CATALOGUE Whittington and his Cat.  
###An old ballad of Whittington and his cat.  Tune of, Come thou to me.  titleend [London]: Printed and sold at the printing office in Aldermary church yard, London, [1750?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/20.  Harvard University Houghton Library *pEB75.P4128C no.299 A song "Here I must tell the praise of worthy Whittington".  Houghton = 23.5 x 37.5 cm.  ESTCN10713.

NOTE Percy no 299.  Other London listings.  The famous history of was a chapbook.  

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(285) Author: Minister of Glangothan.
CATALOGUE Welch Sermon.
###A Welch sermon, said to be preached at a funeral, by a minister of Glangothan in Glamorganshire.  titleend London: printed and sold by William Bailey at the little a, no.  42, within Bishopsgate, [1790?] 1 sheet; 1/20.  Oxford University Bodleian Library Douce A satire.  William Bailey at this address 1785 1790 (Maxted).ESTCT193305.

NOTE No Bow or Aldermary copy located.  Also, London, Susan Bailey at no.  50, Bishopsgate Street within, [1800?].  ESTCT218970.

NORTH AMERICA: not found.


DM64ballads(286)
CATALOGUE Yarmouth Tragedy.
###The Yarmouth tragedy; or, the constant lovers.  titleend [London]: Printed and solda t [sic] the printing office in Bow Church yard, London, [1760?] 1 sheet; obl.1/20.  British Library Rox.  III(558) Note: Cut into two pieces and pasted to blank leaves Harvard University Libraries 25242.61 F* 33r Verse "Lovers, I beg lend an ear to this story, ".  In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.  In this issue the "printiinng offic" imprint error has been corrected; the same setting of text, but without the ornamental rules separating the columns, was also issued with the imprint: "Printed and sold at no.  4, Aldrmary [sic] Church Yard".  ESTCT52854.

NOTE Other London listings.  Also, Edinburgh.  

NORTH AMERICA: 
1.  The Yarmouth tragedy; or, Jemmy and Nancy's garland.  To which is added, Gay Damon.  Printed at Worcester, Mass.: [by Isaiah Thomas], MDCCLXXXVII.  [1787].  8p.; 4? A ballad.  Bristol B6645; Shipton & Mooney 45209.  North America MWA: DB ESTCW025092.

2.  The Yarmouth tragedy, or Jamie and Nancy's garland.  Hudson [N.Y.]: Printed [by Ashbel Stoddard?] for the itinerant booksellers., [179?] 8 p.  ill.; 17cm.  (8vo) A ballad.  Approximate date of publication surmised from the types and paper used.  Ashbel Stoddard is the only printer of record in Hudson, N.Y., in the 1790s.  A relief cut on the title page is the only illustration.  Evans 0 Not on Readex; Dated Pams.  ESTCW36691.

3.  The Yarmouth tragedy, or Jamie and Nancy's garland.  [Hudson [N.Y.]: Printed [by Ashbel Stoddard] for the itinerant booksellers.  [Between 1803 and 1806?] [2], 3 8 p.  17cm.  The ornament at top of page [2] appears in imprints by Ashbel Stoddard from 1803 to 1806.  Stoddard printed at Hudson from 1786 to 1840.  Error in printing: page 5 is printed on the verso of page 3, and page 4 on the recto of page 6.  Shaw & Shoemaker 0 CALL NUMBER(S): Not on Readex; Dated Pams.  


