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• 148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
  ...cribing the plot Child wrote, ‘All this may strike us as infantile but the ballad was evidently in great favour 200 years ago.’ (i.e. c1690). Personally I
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 27 (1916)
  Under the heading “Lamkin,” Child deals very fully with this ballad. There is a tradition in Northumberland that Lamkin and his tower were part ...Society'' (volume i, p. 212; volume ii, p. 111; volume v, pp. 81–84). The ballad given here was collected in Cambridgeshire, in which county it is still ver
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• 153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
  ...teenth century garlands and was likely composed for that medium as filler. Child’s comment is appropriate here, ‘Written, perhaps, because it was though [[Category:Child Ballad]]
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• 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  ...of this ballad in Robin Hood’s Garland of 1749, and a version of the stall ballad somewhat rewritten occurs in Elizabeth Cotton’s Manuscript Song Book whic
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• 129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
  ...cated by the matter of the two being as alien as oil and water.' The title Child used appears in Thackeray's list of printed ballads and was used on mid-eig ...ulous hand and ear of George Herzog. It doesn't sound very convincing as a ballad tune; it has two strains and modulates.'
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• 138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
  ...garlands. Pitts of London also printed it in the early nineteenth century. Child mentions a Scoticised version in Kinloch’s Collection derived from a stal ...th century, which is summarized by Child in his introductory notes to this ballad.
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 14 (1916)
  Many versions of this ballad have been published with tunes, for example, the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Child (No. 286) reprints a 17th century broadside version, beginning:
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• 142: Little John a Begging
  ...t in common with the broadsides and should really be considered a separate ballad, although the stories are obviously related. It is a pity that some of the ...t been found in oral tradition. Through the process of linking from one RH ballad to another in designated tunes Bronson arrives at the conclusion that the b
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• 140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
  ...rces and other ballads, like Hind Horn (17), for some of the events in the ballad. Under that popular but confusing title of ‘Bold Robin Hood’ it continu
  1,014 bytes (162 words) - 10:10, 23 January 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 06 (1916)
  This, again, is a very popular ballad with English folksingers, and I have noted down nineteen different versions ...nglish Folk Songs for Schools'' (No. 11); and George Cruikshank’s ''Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman''.
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• 125: Robin Hood and Little John
  ...the Stationers Register but these can not be positively identified as this ballad. ...ee stanza version and the Ohio version and mentions its use of the tune of Child 126/127.
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• 293: John of Hazelgreen
  == John of Hazelgreen Child 293 Roud 250 == Number of versions in : Child 4, Bronson 28
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 23 (1916)
  ...in the Roxburghe and Ebsworth Collections and in Johnson’s ''Museum''. The ballad appears also in ''Garlands'', printed about 1760, as “The Sorrowful Lover The “vow” verse occurs in “Bonny Bee Hom,” a well-known Scottish ballad (Child, No. 92).
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• 134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
  ...in Hood and a beggar”.’ The story may be ancient but I very much doubt the ballad is. ...or even Ritson himself? Other factors which have formed my opinion on this ballad are the precise stress and metre, the attention to alliteration and the ove
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• 295: The Brown Girl
  The Brown Girl Child 295A Versions in Child 1 Bronson 0
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• 146: Robin Hood's Chase
  Beginning with a summary of 145 ‘RH and Queen Katherine’, Child described it as a sequel to 145. It appeared in the Garlands 0f 1663 and 16 ...ng the tune back leads us to 125/126. Bronson deals very briefly with this ballad as there are no oral versions.
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• 139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
  ...in London c1620-55. Child states, ‘This is evidently a comparatively late ballad, but has not come down to us in its oldest form.’ The story occurs in ear
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• 147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
  ...seventeenth century broadsides are in the Pepys and Roxburghe collections. Child states, ‘The kernel of the story is an old tale we find represented in Pa
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 29 (1916)
  For other versions see Child (No. 170) and the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume ii, p. 221; ...s no evidence that hear death was brought about in the way narrated in the ballad.
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 26 (1916)
  ...the exception of the last two stanzas). Versions of the words are given in Child (''English and Scottish Ballads''); Bell’s ''Early Ballads'' (p. 134); an
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