Francis J Child

Section Editor: Steve Gardham

The work of Frances J Child had been the subject of much discourse and there are many web sites dealing with the ballads he assembled.

The purpose of this section is:

1. to present a different and probably controversial set of opinions
2. to link to work already done
3. to enable further discussion

Volume I: 1-53

• 1: Riddles Wisely Expounded
• 2: The Elfin Knight
• 3: The Fause Knight on the Road
• 4: Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
• 5: Gil Brenton
• 6: Willie's Lady
• 7: Earl Brand
• 8: Erlinton
• 9: The Fair Flower of Northumberland
• 10: The Twa Sisters
• 11: The Cruel Brother
• 12: Lord Rendal
• 13: Edward
• 14: Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie
• 15: Leesom Brand ** Editorial
• 16: Sheath and Knife ** Editorial
• 17: Hind Horn
• 18: Sir Lionel
• 19: King Orfeo
• 20: The Cruel Mother ** Editorial
• 21: The Maid and the Palmer
• 22: St. Stephen and Herod
• 23: Judas
• 24: Bonnie Annie
• 25: Willie's Lyke-Wake
• 26: The Three Ravens
• 27: The Whummil Bore
• 28: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
• 29: The Boy and the Mantle
• 30: King Arthur and King Cornwall
• 31: The Marriage of Sir Gawain
• 32: King Henry
• 33: Kempy Kay
• 34: Kemp Owyne
• 35: Allison Gross
• 36: The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
• 37: Thomas Rymer
• 39: Tam Lin
• 40: The Queen of Elfan's Nourice
• 41: Hind Etin
• 42: Clerk Colvill
• 43: The Broomfield Hill
• 44: The Two Magicians
• 45: King John and the Bishop
• 46: Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
• 47: Proud Lady Margaret
• 48: Young Andrew
• 49: The Twa Brothers
• 50: The Bonny Hind
• 51: Lizie Wan
• 52: The King's Dochter Lady Jean
• 53: Young Beichan

Volume II: 54-113

• 54: The Cherry-Tree Carol
• 55: The Carnal and the Crane
• 56: Dives and Lazarus
• 57: Brown Robyn's Confession
• 58: Sir Patrick Spens
• 59: Sir Aldingar
• 60: King Estmere
• 61: Sir Cawline
• 62: Fair Annie
• 63: Child Waters
• 64: Fair Janet
• 65: Lady Maisry
• 66: Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet
• 67: Glasgerion
• 68: Young Hunting
• 69: Clerk Sanders
• 70: Willie and Lady Maisry
• 71: The Bent Sae Brown
• 72: The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owensford
• 73: Lord Thomas and Annet
• 74: Fair Margaret and Sweet William
• 75: Lord Lovel
• 76: The Lass of Roch Royal
• 77: Sweet William's Ghost
• 78: The Unquiet Grave
• 79: The Wife of Usher's Well
• 80: Old Robin of Portingale
• 81: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
• 82: The Bonny Birdy
• 83: Child Maurice
• 84: Bonny Barbara Allen
• 85: Lady Alice
• 86: Young Benjie
• 87: Prince Robert
• 88: Young Johnstone
• 89: Fause Foodrage
• 90: Jellon Grame
• 91: Fair Mary of Wallington
• 92: Bonny Bee Hom
• 93: Lamkin
• 94: Young Waters
• 95: The Maid Freed From the Gallows
• 96: The Gay Goshawk
• 97: Brown Robin
• 98: Brown Adam
• 99: Johnie Scott
• 100: Willie o Winesberry
• 101: Willie o Couglas Dale
• 102: Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter
• 103: Rose the Red and White LIly
• 104: Prince Heathen
• 105: The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
• 106: The Famous Flower of Serving Men
• 107: Will Steward and John
• 108: Christopher White
• 109: Tom Potts
• 110: The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
• 111: Crow and Pie
• 112: Blow Away the Morning Dew
• 113: The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry

Volume III: 114-188

• 114: Johnie Cock
• 115: Robyn and Gandeleyn
• 116: Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesly
• 117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
• 118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
• 119: Robin Hood and the Monk
• 120: Robin Hood's Death
• 121: Robin Hood and the Potter
• 122: Robin Hood and the Butcher
• 123: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
• 124: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
• 125: Robin Hood and Little John
• 126: Robin Hood and the Tanner
• 127: Robin Hood and the Tinker
• 128: Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
• 129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
• 130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
• 131: Robin Hood and the Ranger
• 132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
• 133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
• 134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
• 135: Robin Hood and the Shepherd
• 136: Robin Hood's Delight
• 137: Robin Hood and the Pedlars
• 138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
• 139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
• 140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
• 141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
• 142: Little John a Begging
• 143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
• 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
• 145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
• 146: Robin Hood's Chase
• 147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
• 148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
• 149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
• 150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
• 151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
• 152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
• 153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
• 154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
• 155: Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter
• 156: Queen Eleanor's Confession
• 157: Gude Wallace
• 158: High Spencer's Feats in France
• 159: Durham Field
• 160: The Knight of Liddesdale
• 161: The Battle of Otterburn
• 162: The Hunting of the Cheviot
• 163: The Battle of Harlaw
• 164: King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France
• 165: Sir John Butler
• 166: The Rose of England
• 167: Andrew Bartin
• 168: Flodden Field
• 169: Johnie Armstrong
• 170: The Death of Queen Jane
• 171: Thomas Cromwell
• 172: Musselburgh Field
• 173: Mary Hamilton
• 174: Earl Bothwell
• 175: The Rising in the North
• 176: Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
• 177: The Earl of Westmoreland
• 178: Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon
• 179: Rookhope Ryde
• 180: King James and Brown
• 181: The Bonnie Earl o' Moray
• 182: The Laird o Logie
• 183: Willie Macintosh
• 184: The Lads of Wamphray
• 185: Dick o the Cow
• 186: Kinmont Willie
• 187: Jock o the Side
• 188: Archie o Cawfield

Volume IV: 189-265

• 189: Hobie Noble
• 190: Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead
• 191: Hughie Graham
• 192: The Lochmaben Harper
• 193: The Death of Parcy Reed
• 194: The Laird of Wariston
• 195: Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
• 196: The Fire of Frendraught
• 197: James Grant
• 198: Bonny John Seton
• 199: Bonnie House o' Airlie
• 200: The Gypsy Laddie
• 201: Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
• 202: The Battle of Philiphaugh
• 203: The Baron of Brackley
• 204: Jamie Douglas
• 205: Loudon Hill, or Dromclog
• 206: Bothwell Bridge
• 207: Lord Delamere
• 208: Lord Dernwentwater
• 209: Geordie
• 210: Bonnie James Campbell
• 211: Bewick and Graham
• 212: The Duke of Athole's Nurse
• 213: Sir James the Rose
• 214: The Braes o Yarrow
• 215: Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie
• 216: The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water
• 217: The Broom of Cowdenknows
• 218: The False Lover Won Back
• 219: The Gardener
• 220: The Bonny Lass of Anglesey
• 221: Katherine Jafray
• 222: Bonny Baby Livingston
• 223: Epie Morrie
• 224: The Lady of Arngosk
• 225: Rob Roy
• 226: Lizie Lindsay
• 227: Bonny Lizie Baillie
• 228: Glasgow Peggie
• 229: Earl Crawford
• 230: The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain
• 231: The Earl of Errol
• 232: Richie Story
• 233: Andrew Lammie
• 234: Charlie MacPherson
• 235: The Earl of Aboyne
• 236: The Laird o Drum
• 237: The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
• 238: Glenlogie or Jean o Bethalnie
• 239: Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie
• 240: The Rantin Laddie
• 241: The Baron o Leys
• 242: The Coble o Cargin
• 243: James Harris, (The Daemon Lover)
• 244: James Hatley
• 245: Young Allan
• 246: Redesdale and Wise William
• 247: Lady Elspat
• 248: The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father
• 249: Auld Matrons
• 250: Henry Martyn
• 251: Lang Johnny More
• 252: The Kitchie-Boy
• 253: Thomas o Yonderdale
• 254: Lord William, or Lord Lundy
• 255: Willie's Fatal Visit
• 256: Alison and Willie
• 257: Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick
• 258: Broughty Wa's
• 259: Lord Thomas Stuart
• 260: Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret
• 261: Lady Isabel
• 262: Lord Livingston
• 263: The New-Slain Knight
• 264: The White Fisher
• 265: The Knight's Ghost

Volume V: 266-305

• 266: John Thomson and the Turk
• 267: The Heir of Linne
• 268: The Twa Knights
• 269: Lady Diamond
• 270: The Earl of Mar's Daughter
• 271: The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward
• 272: The Suffolk Miracle
• 273: King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth
• 274: Our Goodman
• 275: Get Up and Bar the Door
• 276: TheFriar in the Well
• 277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
• 278: The Farmer's Curst Wife
• 279: The Jolly Beggar
• 280: The Beggar-Laddie
• 281: The Keach I the Creel
• 282: Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant
• 283: The Crafty Farmer
• 284: John Dory
• 285: The George Aloe and the Sweepstake
• 286: The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
• 287: Captain Ward and the Rainbow
• 288: The Young Earl of Essex's Victory Over the Emperor of Germany
• 289: The Mermaid
• 290: The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie
• 291: Child Owlet
• 292: The West-Country Damosel's Complaint
• 293: John of Hazelgreen
• 294: Dugal Quin
• 295: The Brown Girl
• 296: Walter Lesly
• 297: Earl Rothes
• 298: Young Peggy
• 299: Trooper and Maid
• 300: Blancheflour and Jellyflorice
• 301: The Queen of Scotland
• 302: Young Bearwell
• 303: The Holy Nunnery
• 304: Young Ronald
• 305: The Outlaw Murray