Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 7th April 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/-lady-owncibell-ouncebelle-child-75a-lord-lovel.aspx
Roud 48, Child 75
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 7th April 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/fair-margaret–child-74c-.aspx
Roud 253, Child 74
The first two verses were omitted in Parson’s original, but are reproduced from Percy’s Reliques of ancient English poetry, Volume 3. Rev Parsons Parsons wrote:
The Ballad of Sweet William was the same as Yours in the Stanzas I have omitted. In the 8th Stanza and 35th Line Yours runs:
To dream thy Bower was full of ‘red’ Swine, which last words are marked as of uncertain reading. I think I have restored the Original Reading. The Person from whose mouth I took it Sung it thus:
My Chamber was full of wild men’s wine, which is absolute nonsense, but if altered to wild men and Swine, is perfect sense and naturally Expresses a horrid and hurrying Dream.
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 22nd May 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/like-hermit-poor.aspx
Roud ?
From the Batt Brothers
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden, 25th June 1942
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/1/14
From Tom Batt
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden, 1941
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection (COL/4/5)
An identical version, but with six verses, was collected from Tom Batt’s relatives the Batt Brothers in 1942: Come Come My Pretty Maid (The Thrush)
From the Batt Brothers
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden, 25 Jun 1942
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection (COL/1/11)
An identical version, but with only two verses, was collected from the Batt Brothers’ relative Tom Batt in 1941: Come Come My Pretty Maid
From Charley Appleton
Sent to ‘Felix’ and printed in the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald, 5th November 1932
Collected by Ella Bull, 5th March 1910, “from a Kentish man and woman”, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire
Lucy Broadwood MSS Collection LEB/5/88, LEB/5/89
Sent by Lucy Grahame to Lucy Broadwood, April 1904
Lucy Broadwood MSS Collection LEB/5/182/1, LEB/5/182/2
Roud 4, Child 73
“The name of this Ballad is not known”.
“Learnt orally from the daughters of a Kentish Squire; the last of whom died in 1865 at a very advanced age”.
Lucy Grahame seemed to have some doubts as to whether the melody as transcribed was a correct rendering of “the tune which I heard in my childhood”.
When sending this song to Lucy Broadwood, she pondered on the relationship between ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor’ and ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (both are now in fact ascribed the same Roud number). She had a niece copy out what is very clearly a Scottish set of words for the ballad ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Annet’, as printed in Old English ballads, Nelson & Sons, 1887 (LEB/5/179). That collection had originally been published by Ward and Lock in 1864, and can be found on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3gAnoD1n58QC/page/n103/mode/2up
Sent by Lucy Grahame to Lucy Broadwood, April 1904
Lucy Broadwood MSS Collection LEB/5/181/1, LEB/5/181/2, Journal of the Folk-Song Society 2 (1905) pp.136-137
“Learnt from the drs of a Kentish Squire the last of whom died 1865 at an advanced age”.
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