Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
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48
1875
English
- Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson
- Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife
- A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend
- The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field
- A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage
- The Blessed Conscience
- The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen
- James I. and the Loin of Beef
- Warrikin Fair
- Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell
- Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson
- The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town
- Townley's Ghost
- The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter
- Lancashire May Songs
- Wassail Song
- The Liverpool Tragedy
- Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt
- The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman
- Careless Content by John Byrom
- The Frog and the Crow
- Dick o' Stanley Green
- Blakeley Courtship
- The Lancashire Miller
- Contentment by John Byrom
- Sir Gualter
- The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh
- Warrington Ale
- Droylsden Wakes Song
- Radcliffe Otter Hunt
- The Owdham Recruit
- The Cocky Moor Snake
- Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble]
- The Burnley Haymakers
- The Praise of Lancashire Men
- Will, the Ferryman
- The Lovers' Leap
- Death of an Old Huntsman
- Handloom Versus Powerloom
- Gorton Town
- The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament
- The Middleton Overseer and the Madman
- Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side
- Grimshaw's Factory Fire
- The Bonny Gray
- The Lancashire Witches
Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Ancient and Modern. The ballads and songs in this section are from the eighteenth century and earlier, and mostly by unknown authors. - Summary by Philip Benson
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