Imprint Names: Boys
Imprint Locations: Doncaster
Imprint: Boys, Printer, opposite the Cross, Doncaster
Title: Tom Tough
First Line: My name, d'ye see's Tom Tough, I've seed a little sarvice
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Boyes, Mrs.
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. Sold by Mrs. Boyse, Brighton
Title: The lad of the moor comes a wooing to me
First Line: The lad of the moor comes a woo[i]ng to me
Tune: Helen the fair
Title: The orphan wet with the rain
First Line: If pity sweet maid ever dwelt in thy breast
Themes: Orphans
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Pierce, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , Brighton , Southborough
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials. Sold by T. Batchelar, 14 Hackney road crescent; Boyse, Brighton &c. Sold by J. Pierce, Southborough
Title: Barney Bralaghans courtship
First Line: Twas on a windy night
Title: Woodland Mary
First Line: With sloe black eyes and jet black hair
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Pierce, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , Brighton , Southborough
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Sold by T. Batchelar, 14 Hackney road crescent; Boyse, Brighton &c. Sold by J. Pierce, Southborough
Notes: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Firth b.25(69)
Title: Woodland Mary
First Line: With sloe black eyes and jet black hair
Themes: Servants
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes
Imprint Locations: London , Bristol , London , Brighton
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials ... Sold by W. Marshall, Bristol; T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent, and Mrs. Boyes, Market-Street, Brighton
Title: Follow over mountains
First Line: Follow, follow, over mountaih [sic]
Title: Poor Mary Anne
First Line: Here below the green turf, sleepeth
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Marshall, W. , Boyes
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Bristol , Brighton
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: [first ballad] Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials ... Sold by W. Marshall, Bristol [second ballad] ... Sold by Bennett, & Boyes, Brighton
Title: The welcome sailor
First Line: As I walked out one night it being dark all over
Themes: Sailors
Title: Bonnet so blue
First Line: In Manchester town, in fair Lancashire
Themes: Soldiers , Portraiture
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Batchelar, T. , Bennett , Boyes , Marshall, W.
Imprint Locations: London , London , Brighton , Brighton , Bristol
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. Sold by Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; Bennett & Boyes, Brighton; Marshall, Bristol, &c.
Title: The lamenting maid
First Line: Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
Themes: Sailors
Title: Answer to the Lamenting maid
First Line: Who's that I hear making such lamentation
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Harris, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Bristol , London , Brighton , Salisbury
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. Sold by Bennett, and Boyes, Brighton. [second ballad] Sold by T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; W. Marshall, Bristol and R. Harris, Salisbury
Title: The painful plough
First Line: Come all you jolly ploughmen of courage stout and bold
Themes: Agricultural laborers
Title: I'm in haste
First Line: As 'cross the field the other morn
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Bennett , Boyes
Imprint Locations: London , Bristol , London , Brighton , Brighton
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Sold b[y] W. Marshall, Bristol; T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Roa[d] Crescent; Bennett, & Boyes, Brighton
Title: The Irish girl
First Line: Abroad as I was walking down by a river side
Title: The transport
First Line: Come all young men of learning a warning take by me
Themes: Transported convict
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Pierce , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Inkpen, W.
Imprint Locations: London , Southborough , Bristol , London , Brighton , Lewes
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Sold by Marshall, Bristol; Inkpen, Lewes; T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; and Mrs. Boyse, Brighton. Sold by Pierce, Southborough
Title: Parody on Home
First Line: I courted a fair maid, and lov'd her so dear
Themes: Domestic strife
Title: Mr Lowe, and Miss Cundy
First Line: A spruce linen draper, one Mr. John Lowe
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Batchelar, T. , Bennett , Boyes , Marshall, W.
Imprint Locations: London , London , Brighton , Brighton , Bristol
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials ... Sold by Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; Bennett, & Boyse, Brighton; Marshall, Bristol, &c.
Title: The Devil and Mike
First Line: Oh, 'twas on a dusky eve
Title: The three butchers
First Line: It was Ips, Gips, & Johnson as I have heard many say
Themes: Murder , Highwaymen
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Pierce , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Sharman, J.
Imprint Locations: London , Southborough , Bristol , London , Brighton , Cambridge
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials ... Sold by W Marshall, Bristol; T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; Mrs. Boyes, Market-street, Brighton; and J. Sharman, Cambridge; Pierce, Southborough
Title: The gossiping husband
First Line: The men may talk about their wives their gossip and their clack
Themes: Taverns
Title: The gossiping wife
First Line: Of all the wives that plague mens lives
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Pierce , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Sharman, J.
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Southborough , Bristol , London , Brighton , Cambridge
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 Monmouth-court. Sold by Marshall, Bristol; Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; J. Sharman, Cambridge; Pierce, Southborough; and Boyse, and Bennett, Brighton
Title: Ben Block
First Line: Ben Block was a veteran of naval renown
Authors: Collins, John, d. 1808
Themes: Sailors - veterans
Notes: Slip
Click image to view larger
Notes: Slip
Click image to view larger
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Pierce , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Sharman, J. , Harris, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Southborough , Bristol , London , Brighton , Cambridge , Salisbury
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. Sold by Marshall, Bristol; Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; J. Sharman, Cambridge; Pierce, Southborough; Boyes, and Bennett, Brighton; & R. Harris, Salisbury
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Firth b.25(102)
Title: Merry little soldier
First Line: I'm a merry little soldier
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Pierce , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Inkpen, W.
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Southborough , Bristol , London , Brighton , Lewes
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Sold by W. Marshall, Bristol; Inkpen, Lewes; T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; Boyse, and Bennett, Brighton & Pierce, Southborough
Title: Paddy's land
First Line: One evening all alone
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Be careful in choosing a wife
First Line: Now all young men that's going to wed
Themes: Marriage - men
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Bennett , Marshall, W. , Batchelar, T. , Boyes , Sharman, J. , Pierce, J. , Price
Imprint Locations: London , Brighton , Bristol , London , Brighton , Cambridge , Southborough , [s.l.]
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials ... Sold by T. Batchelar, 14, Hackney Road Crescent; Marshall, Bristol; Price, St. Clement's; Bennett, and Boyse, Brighton; J. Sharman, Cambridge; & J. Pierce, Southborough
Title: The distress'd maid
First Line: As I was a walking down by a river side
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: The rambling boy
First Line: I am a wild and rambling boy
Themes: Suicide