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Edition - Bod4034

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 222

Title: The lads of Thorney moor woods

First Line: In Thorney moor woods in Nottinghamshire

Themes:  Poaching

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V17553

Title: Non mi recordo

First Line: Theodore Majocci is my name

Subjects:  Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821

Harding B 28(237)

Notes:  On the facing page is a MS note explaining the origin of the second ballad: \"Non mi recordo\" the Reply so frequently given by Theodore Majocci one of the Evidence on the part of the prosecution on the Queen's Trial. This Song was very popular & was sung thro' the streets of London & afterwards hawked all over Britain to the Admirers of Spotless innocence!


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Edition - Bod4129

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1817

Imprint: Crome Printer


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V30953

Title: The sailor's wife's lamentation

First Line: My true love to Greenland is gone

Themes:  Sailors

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 588

Title: Lancashire lads

First Line: It was last Monday morning as I have heard them say

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 28(239)

Notes:  Torn at top right corner; lacking part of illustration.


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Edition - Bod4131

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 15024

Title: Sweet Jessie of Dunblane

First Line: The sun is gone down o'er the lofty Benlomond

Authors:  Tannahill, Robert, 1774-1810

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 17792

Title: The gallant sailor

First Line: Fare thee well my true gallant sailor

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 28(228)

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Edition - Bod4132

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1817

Imprint: Crome printer


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1607

Title: Nothing at all

First Line: In Derry Down Dale, when I wanted a mate

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 402

Title: The drowsy sleeper

First Line: Awake, awake, ye drowsy sleeper

Harding B 28(233)

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Edition - Bod4133

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V645

Title: The lamplighter

First Line: I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4186

Title: The valiant maid

First Line: Come all you pretty maidens that bears in cupids chains

Harding B 28(234)

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Edition - Bod4134

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 300

Title: Transports and Old Baileys

First Line: Here's adieu to your judges and juries

Themes:  Transported convict

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 367

Title: Polly Oliver

First Line: One night as Polly Oliver, lay [musing in bed]

Themes:  Women soldiers

Harding B 28(238)

Notes:  Imperfectly printed at the right side.


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Edition - Bod4135

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3467

Title: Tea drinking wives

First Line: So what a dreadful destruction

Themes:  Tea

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5271

Title: I once had heart

First Line: I once had a hert [sic] if I could have kept it

Harding B 28(244)

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Edition - Bod4136

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 7193

Title: And was'nt she a tidy one

First Line: I married a wife, and who cares? said I

Themes:  Marriage

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5135

Title: 'Tis only a soldier that's dead

First Line: All is silent and dark -- on the night's heavy air

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 28(245)

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Edition - Bod4137

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1817

Imprint: Crome Printer, Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6531

Title: Farmers lamentation

First Line: Come cheer up your hearts theres good news come to town

Themes:  Farmers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V24621

Title: The cabin boy

First Line: No lark that e'er whistled aloft o'er the downs

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 28(248)

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Edition - Bod4138

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1817

Imprint: Sheffield, Printed at J. Crome's Office, No 30, Bridge street


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V20992

Title: Twin roses

First Line: On one parent stalk two white roses were growing

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V21155

Title: The Yorkshire lasses

First Line: All you young lads a warning take

Themes:  FashionsTea

Harding B 28(256)

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Edition - Bod4147

Imprint Names:  Crome, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1817

Imprint: Crome, Printer, Sheffield

Notes:  With an advertisement appealing to \"All persons that either sell or wishes to sell Serious Poems and Constitutional songs ...\"


Ballad

Title: A new song, called the Egyptian taskmaster; or The tax hunter tapping; multum in parvo

First Line: I knew by the No that so dismal did sound

Themes:  TaxationPolitics and government - 19th century

Harding B 28(288)


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Edition - Bod4196

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Wm. Ford, Printer, York-st. Sheffield


Ballad - Roud Number: V3490

Title: Keep your heart light as you can

First Line: We have always enough to bear

Harding B 15(157b)

Notes:  The illustration and the text are separately printed items. The ballad is part of a sheet of two; see Firth b.25(242).


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Edition - Bod5875

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A. and Co.Harvey, M.

Imprint Locations:  LondonSheffield

Date  between 1845 and 1859

Imprint: Ryle and Co., Printers, 2 and 3, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury. Sold by M. Harvey Sheffield Park, Sheffield

Notes:  Harding B 11(595) is another impression Firth b.26(214) is another impression


Ballad - Roud Number: 23262

Title: The child's dream

First Line: Before a lonely cottage once

Themes:  ReligionDeath

Harding B 11(596)

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Edition - Bod6510

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Wm. Ford, Printer, York-st. Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 728

Title: Adam & Eve

First Line: Both sexes give ear to my fancy

Themes:  Women

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3490

Title: Keep your heart light as you can

First Line: We have always enough to bear

Firth b.25(242)

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Edition - Bod6723

Imprint Names:  Harvey, Mrs.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Mrs. Harvey, Printer, Sheffield-park, Sheffield


1st Ballad

Title: A new song on the Statutes

First Line: As I was going to --- Statutes

Themes:  Hiring fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1107

Title: Spence Broughton

First Line: To you my dear companions accept these lines I pray

Firth b.25(381)

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Edition - Bod2058

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Wm. Ford, Printer, 1, York-st., Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 713

Title: Mary's dream

First Line: The moon had climb'd the highest hill

Authors:  Lowe, John

Themes:  GhostsShipwreck

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V16829

Title: Mary's death at Sandy's tomb

First Line: Loud toll'd the stern bellman of night

Themes:  Death

Harding B 11(2369)

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Edition - Bod2292

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.Harvey, F.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield[s.l.]

Imprint: W. Ford, Printer, York-street, Sheffield. Sold also by F. Harvey, Park


Ballad - Roud Number: V24826

Title: The sailor & nobleman

First Line: A jolly tar from Sunderland

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 11(3373)

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Edition - Bod2302

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: W. Ford, Printer, York-street, Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 2107

Title: Sary Syke's

First Line: To me said mother, t' other day

Notes:  Verse and prose

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1110

Title: White hare

First Line: It's near Maxfield town, my boys, as I heard them tell

Themes:  Hunting

Harding B 11(3425)

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Edition - Bod3031

Imprint Names:  Ford, J.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Date  c.1850

Imprint: Joseph Ford, Printer and Wholesale Retail News Agent, 70, Pinstone street, Sheffield


Ballad - Roud Number: V20222

Title: Sweet Nancy Page and I

First Line: We lived and loved as little ones

Harding B 15(323b)

Notes:  The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip


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Edition - Bod3158

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A. and Co.Harvey, M.

Imprint Locations:  LondonSheffield

Date  between 1845 and 1859

Imprint: Ryle and Co., Prinrers [sic], 2 and 3 Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury. Sold by M. Harvey Sheffield Park, Sheffield

Notes:  Harding B 11(595) is another impression Harding B 11(596) is another impression


Ballad - Roud Number: 23262

Title: The child's dream

First Line: Before a lonely cottage once

Themes:  ReligionDeath

Firth b.26(214)

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Edition - Bod3838

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.Harvey, Mrs.

Imprint Locations:  LondonSheffield

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Sold by Mrs. Harvey, Sheffield-Park, Sheffield

Notes:  Harding B 11(2163) is another edition.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V26703

Title: Little Jessey, the poor flower maid

First Line: I am poor little Jessey, I come here to show

Themes:  Street traders

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13784

Title: Happy land!

First Line: Happy land! whate'er my fate in life may be

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 478

Title: The New York trader

First Line: To a new York trader I did belong

Subjects:  New York (N.Y.)Waterford (Ireland)

Themes:  SailorsMurder

Johnson Ballads 220

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Edition - Bod11483

Imprint Names:  Jones

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Jones, Printer [...] St. Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 265

Title: Fair Phoebe, and her dark-eyed sailor

First Line: It's of a comely young lady fair

Themes:  SailorsLovers reunited

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 4796

Title: The hat my father wore

First Line: I'm Paddy Miles an Irish boy

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

Harding B 11(1119)

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Edition - Bod12163

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: Wm. Ford, Printer, York-st., Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V732

Title: Judy the blackguard

First Line: Arrah! Judy you blackguard I see you've been lushing

Themes:  Drunkenness

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V19654

Title: It's you that's the blackguard

First Line: Faith, it's you that's the blackguard, you dirty old toper

Themes:  Drunkenness

Harding B 11(1947)

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Edition - Bod12506

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: W, Ford, Printer, York-st. Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V10556

Title: Old John & Nell

First Line: It was under an old oak tree

Themes:  Death

2nd Ballad

Title: Fortune's wheel is going round

First Line: It was on one summer's evening

Harding B 11(2807)

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Edition - Bod12722

Imprint Names:  Ford, W.

Imprint Locations:  Sheffield

Imprint: W. Ford, Printer, York-street, Sheffield


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V20753

Title: Bill Block

First Line: Bill Block was the tar that no danger did fear

Themes:  SailorsVirtue

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 229

Title: Gipsy girl

First Line: My father is king of the gipsies its true

Themes:  Social statusGipsies

Harding B 11(273)

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