From Mr and Mrs Truell
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gravesend, 31st December 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection RVW2/1/213, RVW2/3/40
Roud 558
Spencer The Rover
From Mr and Mrs Truell
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gravesend, 31st December 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection RVW2/1/215, RVW2/3/42
John Reilly
From Mr and Mrs Truell
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gravesend, 31st December 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection RVW2/1/208, RVW2/3/37
Vaughan Williams’ handwriting is notoriously difficult to decipher – I have tried to make sense of his scrawl with the help of ‘Riley the fisherman’, a broadside published by the London printer H. Such between 1849 and 1862, available from the Bodleian Libraries’ Broadside Ballads Online, shelfmark Firth c.12(287).
Robin Hood and the Pedlar
From Mr and Mrs Truell
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gravesend, 31st December 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection RVW2/1/212, RVW2/3/39
Roud 333, Child 132
Tom Block
From Mr and Mrs Truell
Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gravesend, 31st December 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection RVW2/1/216, RVW2/3/43
Lazerus
Lazerus
From Mrs Lurcock
Collected by Miss Alice Travers, Bredgar
The Umbrella Courtship
From Mr Wanstall
Collected by Francis Collinson, Aldington, 1942
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/1/18
The Oak and the Ivy
From Mr Wanstall
Collected by Francis Collinson, Aldington, November 1942
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/1/19
On Board a ’98
From Mr Wanstall
Collected by Francis Collinson, Aldington, 1942
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/4/22