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Edition - Bod4025

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad

Title: Rachel Bradley's downfall

First Line: These mid-lent assizes at Lancaster castle

Themes:  ExecutionsMurder - infanticide - 19th century

2806 c.17(356)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(349).


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Edition - Bod4820

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 13229

Title: Buy a broom!

First Line: Buy a broom! buy a broom!

2806 c.17(66)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(477).


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Edition - Bod1366

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Artists:  Bell, J.

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester

Notes:  The illustration is signed: J. Bell Sc.


Ballad - Roud Number: 182

Title: Young Edwin, of the Lowlands low

First Line: Come all you feeling lovers, and listen to my song

2806 c.16(270)

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Harding B 16(315b)

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Edition - Bod1435

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester


Ballad - Roud Number: 22267

Title: Courage of true blue

First Line: When the drum beats to arms, each bold British tar

Themes:  Sailors

2806 c.17(83)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(381)


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Edition - Bod1445

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 2521

Title: Barbara Bell

First Line: But this true love is a serious thing

2806 c.17(20)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(336)


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Edition - Bod1456

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: V1152

Title: Hole in the ballad

First Line: [Y]our laughter I'll try to provoke

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

Themes:  Ballads

2806 c.17(169)

Notes:  Torn left edge Slip


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Edition - Bod1466

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester


Ballad - Roud Number: 3743

Title: Kitty Clover

First Line: Sweet Kitty Clover, she bothers me so, O, O, O, O

2806 c.17(208)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(78)


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Edition - Bod1478

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 22802

Title: Love in a hay-band

First Line: Did you never hear tell of one Richard Short's history

2806 c.17(244)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(150)


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Edition - Bod1489

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: V1183

Title: Young Tyler

First Line: Come all you blades that delight in any game

Themes:  Prizefighting

2806 c.17(481)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(276).


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Edition - Bod1495

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 993

Title: Constant lovers

First Line: A sailor courted a farmer's daughter

2806 c.17(78)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(208).


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Edition - Bod1536

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 3122

Title: We're a' noddin'

First Line: And we're a' noddin' -- nid, nid, noddin'

2806 c.17(454)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(221)


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Edition - Bod1551

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 3913

Title: Old miser

First Line: It's of an old miser in London did dwell

Themes:  Misers

2806 c.16(16)

Notes:  Slip


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Harding B 25(1414)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod1552

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer

Notes:  Slip. Harding B 25(1763) is another edition.


Ballad - Roud Number: 399

Title: Sheffield 'prentice

First Line: I was brought up in Sheffield not of an high degree

2806 c.16(20)

Notes:  Slip.


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Edition - Bod1560

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 559

Title: Squire and milkmaid

First Line: It's of a rich squire in Bristol doth dwell

2806 c.16(44)

Notes:  Slip


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Harding B 16(258a)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod1566

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 7413

Title: Lucy Long

First Line: Now I am come afore you

Themes:  Blackface minstrelsy

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3519

Title: Jessie o' the dell

First Line: Oh, bright the beaming queen o' night

2806 c.16(107)

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Harding B 11(2264)

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Edition - Bod1591

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer

Notes:  Slip. Harding B 16(34a) is another edition. Another forms part of a sheet of two ballads; see Johnson Ballads 1914


Ballad - Roud Number: 1185

Title: Bonny light horseman

First Line: Maids, wives, and widows, I pray give attention

Themes:  Soldiers

2806 c.16(249)

Notes:  Slip.


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Harding B 16(33c)

Notes:  Slip.


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Edition - Bod1594

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester


Ballad - Roud Number: V1176

Title: William of the man of war

First Line: One winter's day as I was walking

Themes:  Sailors

2806 c.16(286)

Notes:  Slip


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Harding B 25(2067)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod5025

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 13885

Title: The thorn

First Line: From the white blossom'd sloe my fair Chloe requested

2806 c.17(422)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(347).


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Edition - Bod5125

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 233

Title: Marlborough

First Line: You generals all and champions bold who take delight in fields

Subjects:  Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722

Themes:  Military

2806 c.17(261)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(450).


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Edition - Bod5314

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V20050

Title: Ben Backstay

First Line: Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814

Themes:  Sailors

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 949

Title: The storm

First Line: Cease rude Boreas, blust'ring railer

Authors:  Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784

Themes:  Sailors

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V3207

Title: L, A, W, Law

First Line: Come list to me for a minute

4th Ballad - Roud Number: 5510

Title: Charlie is my darling

First Line: Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling

Themes:  Jacobite Rebellion, 1745

5th Ballad - Roud Number: 370

Title: Dawning of the day

First Line: As I walk'd forth one morning fair, all in the summer time

6th Ballad - Roud Number: 398

Title: Caroline of Edinburgh town

First Line: Come all young men & maidens attend unto my rhyme

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 13848

Title: Cabin boy

First Line: The sea was rough, the clouds were dark

Authors:  Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841

Themes:  Sailors

8th Ballad - Roud Number: V6189

Title: Love has eyes

First Line: Love's blind they say, O never, nay

9th Ballad - Roud Number: V6714

Title: Hope told a flattering tale

First Line: Hope told a flattering tale

10th Ballad - Roud Number: V17204

Title: Welcome to the Bell

First Line: Around the face of blue-eyed Sue

Themes:  Taverns

11th Ballad - Roud Number: 1235

Title: Here's a health to all good lasses

First Line: Here's a health to all good lasses

Themes:  Drinking

12th Ballad - Roud Number: V5272

Title: Is there a heart

First Line: Is there a heart that never loved?

13th Ballad - Roud Number: V4301

Title: Life's a bumper

First Line: Life's a bumper fill'd by fate

14th Ballad - Roud Number: 126

Title: Derby ram

First Line: As I was going to Derby, all on a market day

Subjects:  Derby (England)

Themes:  Markets

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V3516

Title: Sweet evening bells

First Line: Sweet evening bells, sweet evening bells

Themes:  Bells

16th Ballad - Roud Number: 13749

Title: The banks of the blue Moselle

First Line: When the glow-worm gilds the elfin flow'r

17th Ballad - Roud Number: V220

Title: The bloom is on the rye

First Line: My pretty Jane! my pretty Jane!

Authors:  Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873

18th Ballad - Roud Number: V443

Title: Kitty Jones

First Line: Not long ago a simple lad, from Yorkshire I did roam

19th Ballad

Title: They march'd thro' the town

First Line: Oh! they march'd thro' the town with their banners so gay

20th Ballad - Roud Number: 13896

Title: Begone dull care

First Line: Begone dull care, I prithee begone from me

21st Ballad - Roud Number: 23518

Title: Old English gentleman

First Line: I'll sing you a good old song

22nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4849

Title: Little love is a mischievous thing

First Line: Little love is a mischievous thing

23rd Ballad - Roud Number: V1660

Title: Here in a cool grot

First Line: Here in a cool grot and mossy cell

24th Ballad - Roud Number: V238

Title: Bid me discourse

First Line: Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Johnson Ballads fol. 412


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Edition - Bod5493

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 13809

Title: Dunos the brave

First Line: It was Dunos the brave was bound for Palestine

2806 c.17(114)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(15)


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Edition - Bod5495

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: V11583

Title: Farewell to old England

First Line: Farewell to old England, since I must leave the shore

Themes:  Soldiers

2806 c.17(127)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(247)


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Edition - Bod5498

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 1179

Title: Freemason's song

First Line: Come all you Freemasons that dwell around the globe

Themes:  Freemasonry

2806 c.17(137)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(22)


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Edition - Bod5499

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: 266

Title: Banks of Claudy

First Line: It was one summer's morning, in the pleasant month of May

2806 c.17(15)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(126).


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Edition - Bod5505

Imprint Names:  Swindells

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester


Ballad - Roud Number: 22803

Title: Lash'd to the helm

First Line: In storms when clouds obscure the sky

Themes:  Naval

2806 c.17(219)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(165)


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