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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V13991

Titles:
The pot boy Joe

First Lines:
Oh, dear what a change has seen this nation

Themes:
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V4028

Titles:
The barmaid show

First Lines:
Not a hundred miles from \"here or there\"

Themes:
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V8824

Titles:
Sheppard's address to the public

First Lines:
Those who've dealt with Sheppard, swear

Themes:
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V1179

Titles:
The gossiping husband
Gossiping husband

First Lines:
The men may talk about their wives, their gossi[p] and their clack
The men may talk about their wives their gossip and their clack

Themes:
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V2161

Titles:
The dashing barmaid; or alf-a-pint 'o porter

First Lines:
I love a pretty blue eyed lass

Themes:
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V3808

Titles:
The Sunday beer bill is repealed

First Lines:
Arouse lads, arouse! bid adieu to the pump

Themes:
Taverns

Edition - Bod1440

Imprint Names:  Swindells, A.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1796 and 1853

Imprint: A. Swindells, Printer


Ballad - Roud Number: V19617

Title: Th' mon at Mr. Grundys

First Line: Good law, how things are alter'd now

Themes:  Taverns

2806 c.17(284)

Notes:  Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(149)


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Edition - Bod1832

Imprint Names:  Brooksby, P.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  1676

Imprint: Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in West-smith- field, 1676


Ballad - Roud Number: V28391

Title: The bad husbands information of ill husbandry: or, He goes far that never turns

First Line: You bonny boon blades yt are company keepers

Tune: The jovial crew

Themes:  Taverns

4o Rawl. 566(135)

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Edition - Bod242

Imprint Names:  Moffet, R.

Imprint Locations:  Newry

Date  c.1793

Imprint: Newry: Printed by R. Moffet, Sugar-Island


Ballad - Roud Number: V30584

Title: The landlord's kind caution to all his customers

First Line: Right welcome all my masters that come here

References:

ESTC: N71545

Themes:  Taverns

Johnson Ballads fol. 308


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Edition - Bod6518

Imprint Names:  Dever, W.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  18--

Imprint: Dever, Printer, Great St. Andrew St., 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V31824

Title: The illuminated dials

First Line: Good people all give hear [sic] I pray

Subjects:  Seven Dials, London (England)

Themes:  Taverns

Firth b.25(156)

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Firth c.22(65)

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Harding B 11(1709)

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Edition - Bod13943

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

1st Ballad

Title: The countryman's ramble through Crewkerne

First Line: You Crewkerne heroes, great and small, come listen all around, sir

Subjects:  Devonshire (England)

Themes:  Taverns

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3485

Title: In happy moments

First Line: In happy moments, day by day

Harding B 11(725)

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Johnson Ballads 2422

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Johnson Ballads 2423

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Edition - Bod7434

Imprint Names:  Pratt, W.

Imprint Locations:  Birmingham

Date  c.1850

Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham

Series Identifier: 777


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3487

Title: Do a good turn when you can

First Line: How little we think as we travel

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V20601

Title: Zachery [sic] Bell, or, The Barley Mow

First Line: Did you never hear tell of old Zachary Bell

Themes:  Taverns

Firth b.26(7)

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Edition - Bod7681

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V17272

Title: The costers' serenade

First Line: You aint forgotten yet that night in May

Subjects:  London (England)

Themes:  Taverns

Firth b.27(433)

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Firth b.27(438)

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Firth b.34(70)

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Firth c.18(300)

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Firth c.18(301)

Notes:  Firth c.18(301) is printed on blue paper


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Firth c.18(302)

Notes:  Firth c.18(302) is printed on blue paper


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Harding B 11(701)

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Johnson Ballads 2420

Notes:  Johnson Ballads 2420 is printed on blue paper



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Johnson Ballads 2421

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Edition - Bod10550

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad

Title: Every man to his tavern

First Line: 'Tother day as I pass'd thro' the park

Themes:  Taverns

Firth c.22(7)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod9202

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A. and Co.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  [1855]

Imprint: Rial & Co., Printers, 2 & 3 Monmouth-court, 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V3808

Title: The Sunday beer bill is repealed

First Line: Arouse lads, arouse! bid adieu to the pump

Tune: Bailiffs are coming

Themes:  Taverns

Firth c.16(212)

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Firth c.22(63)

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Harding B 14(330)

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Edition - Bod9203

Imprint Names:  White, J.

Imprint Locations:  Liverpool

Imprint: White, Printer, Rose Place, [Liverpool]


Ballad - Roud Number: V25367

Title: The new Licence act

First Line: O what is this world coming to, boys

Themes:  Taverns

Firth c.16(218)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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Edition - Bod9835

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 1173

Title: The wild rover

First Line: I've been a wild rover these seven long years

Themes:  Taverns

Firth c.18(239)

Notes:  Imprint cropped off Slip


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Edition - Bod19088

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.PierceMarshall, W.Batchelar, T.BoyesSharman, J.

Imprint Locations:  LondonSouthboroughBristolLondonBrightonCambridge

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


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V1179

Title: The gossiping husband

First Line: The men may talk about their wives their gossip and their clack

Themes:  Taverns

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2658

Title: The gossiping wife

First Line: Of all the wives that plague mens lives

Johnson Ballads 192

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Edition - Bod19247

Imprint Names:  Burn, J.H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  1839

Imprint: Ten copies printed for Islington collectors impensis J.H. Burn, June, 1839

Notes:  \"Inscription recording a local tradition, on Cranch's festivous tankard, presented to J. Scott, landlord of the Old Queen's Head, Islington.\"


Ballad

Title: Queen's Head, Islington

First Line: Here liv'd Elizabeth Tudor, who ('tis said)

Authors:  C., J.

Notes:  Not strictly a ballad. An inscription on a tankard recording a local tradition. Printed for private circulation

Themes:  Taverns

Johnson Ballads 1241

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Edition - Bod20232

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V8824

Title: Sheppard's address to the public

First Line: Those who've dealt with Sheppard, swear

Tune: Bruce's address to his army

Themes:  Taverns

Johnson Ballads 2840

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod21515

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V23633

Title: Mungo M'Gill

First Line: Draw near ilka wight, that licens'd to retail

Themes:  Taverns

2806 c.14(110)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod23014

Imprint Names:  Coles, F.Vere, T.Wright, J.Clarke, J.

Imprint Locations:  LondonLondonLondonLondon

Date  between 1674 and 1679

Imprint: London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Veres [sic], J. Wright and J. Clarke

Notes:  The speech bubbles in the second illustration are blank.


Ballad - Roud Number: V1187

Title: The bad husbands experience of ill-husbandry, or A new lessen for ale-wives

First Line: All you that are counted good fellows to be

Tune: Many pounds and crowns I have spent

Authors:  W., L.

Themes:  Taverns

4o Rawl. 566(132)

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Edition - Bod23456

Imprint Names:  Deacon, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1671 and 1704

Imprint: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gultispur-street [sic]


Ballad

Title: The unfortunate Welch-man; or, The untimely death of Scotch Jockey

First Line: Stout Shonny-ap-Morgan to London would ride

Tune: The country farmer

References:

ESTC: R227449

Subjects:  ScotlandWales

Themes:  Taverns

Don. b.13(94)

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Ballad Work - Roud Number: V12530

Titles:
A laughable and interesting picture of drunkenness, written by a well known character of this town
A laughable & interesting picture of drunkenness, written by a well known character of this town
A laughable and interesting picture of drunkenness, written by a well-known character of this town

First Lines:
What a cry in this country about the free trade

Themes:
Drunkenness
Taverns

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V6601

Titles:
The murder at Sibsey, in Lincolnshire

First Lines:
In Sibsey village in Lincolnshire

Subjects:
Lincolnshire (England)

Themes:
Murder
Taverns

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