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Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire

John Harland (1806 - 1868)

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

Genre(s): Ballads

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson	Phil Benson	00:14:58
Play 01	Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife	Phil Benson	00:13:59
Play 02	A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend	Phil Benson	00:15:18
Play 03	The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field	Phil Benson	00:19:38
Play 04	A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage	Phil Benson	00:04:51
Play 05	The Blessed Conscience	Phil Benson	00:16:08
Play 06	The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen	Phil Benson	00:11:01
Play 07	James I. and the Loin of Beef	Phil Benson	00:01:55
Play 08	Warrikin Fair	Phil Benson	00:06:10
Play 09	Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell	Phil Benson	00:12:21
Play 10	Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson	Phil Benson	00:15:58
Play 11	The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town	Phil Benson	00:03:48
Play 12	Townley's Ghost	Phil Benson	00:06:26
Play 13	The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter	Phil Benson	00:09:53
Play 14	Lancashire May Songs	Phil Benson	00:18:35
Play 15	Wassail Song	Phil Benson	00:02:16
Play 16	The Liverpool Tragedy	Phil Benson	00:16:08
Play 17	Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt	Phil Benson	00:10:18
Play 18	The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman	Phil Benson	00:11:25
Play 19	Careless Content by John Byrom	Phil Benson	00:05:35
Play 20	The Frog and the Crow	Phil Benson	00:02:53
Play 21	Dick o' Stanley Green	Phil Benson	00:03:45
Play 22	Blakeley Courtship	Phil Benson	00:04:38
Play 23	The Lancashire Miller	Phil Benson	00:02:04
Play 24	Contentment by John Byrom	Phil Benson	00:03:44
Play 25	Sir Gualter	Phil Benson	00:03:59
Play 26	The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh	Phil Benson	00:05:59
Play 27	Warrington Ale	Phil Benson	00:02:09
Play 28	Droylsden Wakes Song	Phil Benson	00:05:46
Play 29	Radcliffe Otter Hunt	Phil Benson	00:06:37
Play 30	The Owdham Recruit	Phil Benson	00:03:36
Play 31	The Cocky Moor Snake	Phil Benson	00:06:52
Play 32	Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble]	Phil Benson	00:23:25
Play 33	The Burnley Haymakers	Phil Benson	00:06:15
Play 34	The Praise of Lancashire Men	Phil Benson	00:03:42
Play 35	Will, the Ferryman	Phil Benson	00:03:47
Play 36	The Lovers' Leap	Phil Benson	00:02:21
Play 37	Death of an Old Huntsman	Phil Benson	00:02:59
Play 38	Handloom Versus Powerloom	Phil Benson	00:02:46
Play 39	Gorton Town	Phil Benson	00:05:00
Play 40	The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament	Phil Benson	00:03:24
Play 41	The Middleton Overseer and the Madman	Phil Benson	00:05:21
Play 42	Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side	Phil Benson	00:03:25
Play 43	Grimshaw's Factory Fire	Phil Benson	00:04:03
Play 44	The Bonny Gray	Phil Benson	00:02:13
Play 45	The Lancashire Witches	Phil Benson	00:01:55

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