Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1821]
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Winter is come and the queen is no more
First Line: Dark winter is come, and the heavy dull sky
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printe[r,] 2, & 3, Monmouth Court, [7] Dials
Notes: Another issue forms part of a sheet of three ballads; see Harding B 11(2973).
Title: Paul Jones
First Line: An American frigate, call'd the Richard by name
Subjects: Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792
Themes: American Revolution, 1775-1783
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3878).
Title: The trial of Willy Reily, for running away with Coolen Bawn
First Line: O rise up Willy Reily, and come away with me
Themes: Courts and law , Elopement
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Firth c.14(224) is another impression.
Title: Sailor's tear
First Line: He leap't into the boat
Themes: Sailors
Title: Home, love, is home, be it ever so homely
First Line: Ah! why should my dearest his quiet endanger
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: London: Printed and published by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth- court, 7 Dials
Title: The cottager's daughter. A favourite song
First Line: Ah! tell me ye swains, have you seen my Pastora
Title: The green-wood shade
First Line: To an arbor of woodbine ye both shall be led
Title: The forsaken shepherdess
First Line: Beneath some hoary mountain
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Oh! 'tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
Title: A dawn of hope
First Line: A dawn of hope my soul revives
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Softly sound the martial trumpet
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: Home! sweet home!
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Loch-Eroch side
First Line: As I came by Loch-Eroch side
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The mermaid's song
First Line: Now the dancing sun-beams play
Title: Love among the roses
First Line: Young Love flew to the Paphian bower
Title: The cottager's daughter
First Line: Down in yon valley my father does dwell
Title: Where is my Lubin
First Line: Ah! where is my Lubin? ye songsters ah where!
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]
First Line: What equals on earth the delight of the hunsman [sic]
Authors: Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
Themes: Hunting
Title: [None]
First Line: O had I been by fate decreed
Attributation: Sung in Love in a village
Title: [None]
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Attributation: The words from Clare's poems
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Parody on the Rose-bud of summer
First Line: When gooseberries grow on the stem of a daisy
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Health to the ladies
First Line: Oh! woman, dear woman, the charm of our life
Themes: Women
Title: The rose of Ardee
First Line: When first to this country a stranger I came
Title: The three flies
First Line: There were three flies, once on a time
Title: My heart's true blue
First Line: I ne'er will leave my native shore
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Green grow the rashes
First Line: There's nought but care on ev'ry han'
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: The sailor's tear
First Line: He leap'd into the boat
Themes: Sailors
Title: When a little farm we keep
First Line: He. When a little farm we keep
Themes: Farmers
Title: Oh the moment was sad
First Line: Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted
Title: A herring in salt
First Line: I ha'e laid a herring in salt
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed and Sold by Jas. Catnach, Monmouth-Court, Seven Dials
Title: The king and countrynan [sic]
First Line: There was an old chap in the west country
Title: Harp and lute
First Line: I give thee all, I can no more
Title: Poor Mary Anne
First Line: Here, below the green turf, sleepeth
Title: Adventures in a steam boat
First Line: Oh, what a row, what a rumpus and a rioting
Themes: Excursions , Steamships
Title: By dimpled brook
First Line: By dimpled brook, and fountain brim
Title: The goddess Diana
First Line: Hark the goddess Diana
Themes: Hunting
Title: The banks of Banna. A favourite song
First Line: Shepherds I have lost my love
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court
Title: Bonny brave Scotland
First Line: Where is the land which Scotland surpasses
Performers: Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864
Themes: Scotland
Title: Blest as the immortal, &c
First Line: Blest as the immortal gods is he
Title: Death of Robin Adair
First Line: Now he is dead and gone, Robin Adair
Title: She's fail'd in her truth
First Line: And has she then fail'd in her truth
Performers: Sinclair, Miss
Title: Return my Joey
First Line: When Joe first woo'd me for his bride
Tune: Love's a tyrant
Title: [None]
First Line: Be mine dear maid this faithful heart
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The Rose that blooms for ever
First Line: Oh! could this tortur'd heart but speak
Title: [None]
First Line: Hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Gallant troubadour
First Line: Glowing with love on fire for fame
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: March! march! a favourite song
First Line: March! march! Ettrick and Teviotdale!
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The white cockade
First Line: My love was born in Aberdeen
Title: Bedlam city. Altered from the vulgar ballad
First Line: Down by Bedlam I walk'd one ev'ning
Title: My Lowland queen
First Line: Now spring has deck'd the fields in green
Title: The pilgrim. Far over land
First Line: Far over land, far over wave, a pilgrim am I roaming
Title: Willy of the Green
First Line: On Tay's sweet pleasant banks, how happy have I stray'd
Title: Donald of Dundee
First Line: Young Donald is the blithest lad
Title: The lass of Hazel-Dean
First Line: Beneath a milk-white hawthorn tree
Title: O'er the water to Charlie
First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er
Title: The minstrel boy
First Line: The minstrel boy to the wars is gone
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Soldier's gratitude
First Line: Whate'er my fate, where'er I roam
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Bow thy head thou lily pale
First Line: Bow thy head thou lily pale
Title: The adieu
First Line: Adieu ye streams that smoothly flow
Title: Little soldier
First Line: I'm a merry little soldier
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Scots song
First Line: A Highland lad my love was born
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Notes: Harding B 36(16) is cropped along top edge.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1825]
Imprint: London: Printed & Sold by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: I've been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming, I've been roaming
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Isabel
First Line: Wake! dearest wake! and again united
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Rest, warrior, rest
First Line: He comes from the wars, from the red field of fight
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Soldiers
Title: An old man, &c
First Line: An old man would be wooing
Title: Come live with me, &c
First Line: Come live with me, & be my dear
Title: Taste, O! taste
First Line: Taste, O taste this spicy wine
Themes: Drinking
Title: He loves and he rides away
First Line: At the baron of Mowbray's gate was seen
Title: The sheep-shearing
First Line: Here's the rose-bud in June, and sweet violets below
Themes: Sheep
Title: The sweet, silver moon
First Line: As I went to my cot, at the close of the day
Title: The tuneful lark
First Line: The tuneful lark on æther win[g]
Title: The early horn
First Line: The early horn
Title: Fair Rosamond
First Line: Was ever nymph like Rosamond
Subjects: Clifford, Rosamond, d. 1176 , Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189 , Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122-1204
Title: Remember, love, remember
First Line: Twas ten o'clock one moonlight night
Notes: Portion of the right hand column has been cut out.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2 Monmouth-Court
Title: Caroline queen of our island
First Line: Come listen awhile and your thoughts I'll beguile
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title: No green bags! Brave alderman Wood
First Line: When the queen was detain'd on the Italian shore
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821 , Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, Seven Dials
Title: The history of Paddy Denny's wife and his pig
First Line: In Dublin town, with great renown
Title: When the rosy morn appearing
First Line: When the rosy morn appearing
Title: The knight of the golden crest
First Line: The banner wav'd on the castle walls
Title: Sweet little girl that I love
First Line: My friends all declare that my time is mispent
Title: The lad that I love
First Line: How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain
Authors: Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841
Title: Let us seek the yellow shore
First Line: Let us seek the yellow shore
Title: The wreath
First Line: For me my fair a wreath has wove
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Title: The tiger-hunters
First Line: O'er dreary wastes & deserts wild
Themes: Hunting
Title: The bower
First Line: I've been to my bower, for I love its retreat
Title: The year that's awa'
First Line: O here's to the year that's awa
Title: The kiss
First Line: One kind kiss before we part
Title: Indian death song
First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day
Authors: Hunter, Anne (Home)
Themes: Death
Title: Susanna
First Line: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet
Title: Fair Ellen
First Line: Fair Ellen like a lilly grew
Title: Barney Brallaghan's wedding
First Line: Dear Judy at last has gi'en the kind yes
Themes: Marriage
Title: Tipitywicket
First Line: This very morning handy
Title: Rose in June
First Line: Some idly throughout spend their time
Title: Light cigar
First Line: Now the day is over
Tune: Law
Themes: Smoking
Title: They mourn me dead
First Line: They mourn me dead in my father's hall
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1829]
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The wolf
First Line: At the peaceful midnight hour
Title: Will Witch the bold smuggler
First Line: 'Twas one morn when the wind from the northward blew keenly
Themes: Smuggling
Title: Low down in the broom
First Line: My daddy is a canker'd carle
Title: Lilies and roses
First Line: The father of Nancy a forester was
Title: With a helmet on his brow
First Line: With a helmet on his brow
Themes: Military
Title: John Anderson my jo
First Line: John Anderson my jo, John
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: Her mouth with a smile
First Line: Her mouth with a smile
Title: Richmond hill
First Line: On Richmond hill there lives a lass
Title: Birks of Invermay
First Line: The smiling morn, the breathing spring
Title: Fall not in love
First Line: Fall not in love dear girls, beware
Title: The gay guitar
First Line: Yes I will leave my father's halls
Title: Love and glory
First Line: Young Henry was as brave a youth
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841
Themes: Women soldiers
Title: The keel row
First Line: As I came through the Cannon gate
Subjects: Newcastle (England)
Title: When a man's a little bit poorly
First Line: When a man's a little bit poorly
Title: Pluck'd the fairest flower
First Line: I have plucked the sweetest flower
Title: [Hope told a flattering tale]
First Line: Hope told a flattering tale
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1822
Imprint: Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: Woodland Mary
First Line: With sloe black eyes & jet black hair
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: The gypsies
First Line: The gypsies they came to my father's door
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Themes: Gipsies
Title: The Indian maid
First Line: Oh! this was the cot of the Indian maid
Performers: Matthews, miss
Title: Auld lang syne
First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: Our village. A new song
First Line: When first I was a shepherd's boy
Tune: The sun that lights the roses
Title: The wandering boy
First Line: When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor
Authors: White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806
Performers: Hyde, master
Themes: Orphans
Title: Misfortunes of Paul Pry
First Line: Kind friends I hope I don't intrude in venturing before ye
Title: The sun that lights the roses
First Line: Tho' dimple cheeks may give the light
Title: Moonlight
First Line: Now at moonlight's fairy hour
Tune: Banks of Doun
Authors: R., A.
Title: Why are you wandering here I pray?
First Line: Why are you wand'ring here I pray?
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Performance Locations: Haymarket Theatre
Title: Something new starts every day
First Line: Oh! dear, oh! dear, the world quite strange is
Title: The voice of her I love. An Italian air
First Line: How sweet at close of silent eve
Title: Willy of the Tay
First Line: By Tay's fair banks I stray'd yestreen
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Bread and cheese, and kisses
First Line: One night my sweetheart came to woo
Title: The new national patent steam washing company
First Line: Dukes, bishops, earls, lords, they have all got a share
Tune: Noddin
Performers: Taylor, C.
Performance Locations: Vauxhall Gardens
Themes: Laundrymen
Title: The hearty good fellow
First Line: I am a hearty good fellow
Title: The full new moon
First Line: The full new moon is old my love
Title: Just like love
First Line: Just like love is yonder rose
Authors: Strangford, Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount, 1780-1855
Title: [None]
First Line: Nurse of smiles! come, soothing hope
Title: Birds of a feather
First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say
Title: Among the green bushes, &c
First Line: As I walk'd through the meadows one morning in May
Title: Blink o'er the burn
First Line: Young Sandy is a dowdy lad
Title: Lira, lira, la
First Line: Little thinks the townsman's wife
Title: The pigs among the roses
First Line: The pigs in Gaffer's garden stray'd
Title: Jock o' Hazel Dean
First Line: Why weep ye by the tide lady?
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Performers: Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Tho' I am now a very little lad
Tune: My love was born in Aberdeen
Title: My ain kind deary, O
First Line: Will ye gang o'er the lee-rig
Performers: Broadhurst, Mr.
Title: Hole in the ballad
First Line: Your laughter I'll try to provoke
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833
Themes: Ballads
Title: Brixton in a morning. A parody on Shakespeare's Hark, the lark
First Line: Hark the kids their darbies ring!
Notes: Title cropped. One ballad has been cut out from the right hand column.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(3443) is another issue.
Title: The sea the open sea!
First Line: The sea! the sea! the open sea!
Authors: Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874
Themes: Sea, the
Title: The evening bell
First Line: O do you remember the first time I met you
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2 Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: Arthur O'Bradley's wedding
First Line: Come, neighbours, and listen a while
Themes: Weddings
Notes: Firth b.25(78); numbered in MS.: 407
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3818).
Title: The light of other days
First Line: The light of other days is faded
Authors: Bunn, A. (Alfred), 1796-1860
Performers: Phillips, Henry, 1801-1876
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, London
Notes: The epitaph in the illustration reads: J. Catnach, printer, London
Title: Lines on a remarkable circumstance connected with Bretton hall
First Line: At Bretton hall, near Wakefield, known so well
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, Seven Dials
Notes: Firth b.25(68) is another issue.
Title: Angel's whisper
First Line: A baby was sleeping, its mother was weeping
Title: Woodman spare that tree
First Line: Woodman spare that tree
Authors: Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(3328) is another issue.
Title: The Rose of Allandale
First Line: The morn was fair, the skies were clear
Authors: Jefferys, Charles, 1807-1865
Title: Young William of the royal waggon train
First Line: One lovely morning I was walking
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: [T]he soldier who died for his king
First Line: Dear maid of my soul! should I perish
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Lord Ullin's daughter
First Line: A chieftain to the Highlands bound
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Notes: Harding B 11(3586); Imperfect: torn at lower edge.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The Devil and hackney coachman
First Line: Ben was a hackney coachman rare
Themes: Coach drivers
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(1808)
Title: The island of St. Helena
First Line: Now Boney he's awa' from his warring and fighting
Authors: Watt, J.
Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The Inniskillen dragoon
First Line: A beautiful young damsel of fame and renown
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Soldiers, Irish
Title: Woman's tongue
First Line: In poesy's measured lines, I have read of many times
Themes: Women
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: With a prose introduction
Title: Petticoats is master, and will be!
First Line: Come all ye ladies pray attend
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Domestic strife
