Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire

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The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire

Edited by Llewellyn Jewitt Published 1867 by Bemrose and Lothian - London & Derby.

Now available online at archive.org

Contents

Introduction

• King Henry V

• A Ballad of Derbyshire By Sir Aston Cokain

• Song of Lady Bessy

• Devonshire's Noble Duel with Lord Danby in the year 1687

• Unconsionable Batchelors of Darby, The

• Humours of Hayfield Fair, The

• (On the) Strange and Wonderful Sight (that was seen in the Air on the 6th of march, 1716)

• Drunken Butcher of Tideswell, The

• A New Ballad of Robin Hood

• Robin Hood and Little John

• Little John's End

• Lay of the Buckstone, The

• Sir Richard Whittington's Advancement

• Derbyshire Miller, The

• Tideswell in and Uproar

• Derby Ram, The

• Blink-Ey'd Cobler, The

• Strange Banquet, A

• Taylor's Ramble, The

• Squire Vernon's Fox-Chace

• Trusley Hunting Song, The

• Squire Frith's Hunting Song

• An Elegy

• Cocktail Reel

• Yorkshire Pye, A

• Agricultural Meeting, The

• Complainte of Anthony Babington

• Derbyshire Militia, The

• Florist's Song, The

• Old Nun's Green

• A Poem

• Quadrupedes, Etc, The

• Paving and Lighting

• Nun's Green Rangers, The

• Birch Rod for the Presbytarians, A

• Lost and Dead

• Song

• Sir Francis Leke

• True Lover's Knot Untied, The

• An Address to "Dickie"

• Driving of the Deer, The

• Ashupton Garland, The

• Derbyshire Hills

• Derbyshire Dales

• On the Peak of Derbyshire

• The Derby Hero

• A New Song

• Rev. Bache Thornhill, M.A.

• Journey into the Peak, A

• Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq.

• Hugh Stenson and Molly Green

• Beggar's Ramble, The (1) (2)

• Henry and Clara

• Gypsies' Song, The

• Flax-Dresser's Wife of Spondon, The

• Ashborne Foot-ball Song

• Parson's Torr, The

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