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• 20: Cruel Mother,The
  The Cruel Mother Child 20 [[Child 20 Comment]]
  162 bytes (20 words) - 00:01, 22 March 2009
• 16: Sheath and Knife
  Child 16 [[Francis J Child|Back to list of Child ballads]]
  140 bytes (18 words) - 23:59, 21 March 2009
• 151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
  ...a most contemptible performance:’ Child also applies this to 152 and 153. Child states, ‘The story is a loose paraphrase, with omissions, of the seventh [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  653 bytes (105 words) - 12:32, 26 January 2009
• 152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
  ...Gest’ (117), stanzas 282-95.’ It appears to be a prequel to the following ballad 152. ...es no reference to it and there are no oral versions. See notes to 151 for Child’s condemnation of it.
  455 bytes (70 words) - 12:31, 26 January 2009
• 150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
  ...nidentified. Child describes it as ‘this foolish ditty’ and it is the only ballad in which Robin Hood and Maid Marian actually both feature together strongly [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  553 bytes (93 words) - 12:32, 26 January 2009
• 15: Leesom Brand
  [[Child 15]] [http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/ch015.htm Text at Traditional Music site]
  909 bytes (138 words) - 23:58, 21 March 2009
• 133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
  This ballad appeared in the 1663 and 1670 Garlands and the same version in the Wood, Pe ...ing at stanza 20, from RH rescuing Three Squires, and what precedes from a ballad resembling RH and the Beggar, II.
  899 bytes (161 words) - 00:12, 17 January 2009
• 149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
  ...the action. Copies can be found in the Pepys and Roxburghe Collections. As Child states, ‘It is certainly far from anything found in oral tradition.’ [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  653 bytes (110 words) - 12:33, 26 January 2009
• 141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
  ...er and nothing in the style. It may be considered as an imitation of 140.’ Child gives a version ‘RH and the Sheriff’ in an appendix, from Kinloch’s M
  783 bytes (129 words) - 10:13, 23 January 2009
• 154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
  This, the last of Child’s RH ballads, was written by that well-known prolific ballad writer, Martin Parker, and the Stationers’ Register entry for printer Fra [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  328 bytes (53 words) - 12:30, 26 January 2009
• 117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
  ...y. The ballad does not even survive in fragments out of print, although as Child states some of its component plots are found in other RH ballads. No added [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  822 bytes (147 words) - 16:11, 9 September 2009
• Child 295 Comment
  == Child 295 The Brown Girl == ...on that 295B is a collation by Baring Gould of 295A and a common broadside ballad ‘The Dover Sailor’/’Sally and her True Love Billy’.
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• 118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  ...dramatic piece exists dated 1475 which is obviously closely related to the ballad. No evidence of oral tradition. Bronson has a note on the lack of a tune bu [[Category:Child Ballad]]
  261 bytes (44 words) - 16:12, 9 September 2009
• Child 20 Comment
  The Cruel Mother Child 20 Here we have a rare Child Ballad in that, in my honest opinion, he got this one quite wrong in terms of its
  4 KB (698 words) - 19:35, 2 December 2008
• 143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
  ...he Pepys and Roxburghe Collections. Child proposed the idea that both this ballad and 144 ‘RH and the Bishop of Hereford’ were influenced by the plot of Bronson has little to say on this ballad except that the tune is designated as ‘RH and the Stranger’, which make
  1,007 bytes (168 words) - 10:22, 23 January 2009
• Child 15/16 Comment
  == Child 15/16 Leesome Brand/Sheath and Knife == ...ild 15 ‘Leesome Brand’ and Child 16 ‘Sheath and Knife’ are indeed the same ballad. Buchan’s grotesque expansion, followed by Motherwell, 15A, can be discou
  4 KB (497 words) - 20:13, 4 December 2008
• 145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
  ...1670 Garlands. This version was reprinted in eighteenth century garlands. Child also gives a more recent remake of the story found in the 1663 Garland. ...ssibilities, mainly dismissing Rimbault’s and Child’s suggestions of other ballad tunes. He also includes useful discussion on the general designation of tun
  597 bytes (93 words) - 10:24, 23 January 2009
• Ballads
  ...nguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, rarely in the first person, usually of epic rather th ...[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).
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• Child 8 Comment
  ...cott claims to have collated the two copies they are almost identical, and Child conjectures they are so close as to have been versions taken down at differ ...pxxvii) Indeed it was Telfer’s version of Earl Brand (7A) that was sent to Child by Robert White the Newcastle antiquary and Telfer’s close friend. The wa
  3 KB (566 words) - 00:06, 7 February 2009
• 132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
  ...775 [BL 1346.m.7(9)] where it is titled 'Robin Hood and the Proud Pedlar'. Child gives this and an oral version from Dixon's 'Ancient Poems and Ballads' whe ...Of 'Robin Hood Newly Revived' No. 128. It appears to be a rewrite of that ballad, possibly by a broadside hack. The garland version has Robin Hood's cousin
  1 KB (249 words) - 23:53, 16 January 2009

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