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The three following works will afford help in respect to this Text—

The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time &c. By, F.S.A. 2 Vols. [1855–59] 8vo. [For the tunes especially.]

Philobiblon Society. Ancient Ballads and Broadsides published in England in the Sixteenth Century, chiefly in the earlier years of the reign of Queen. Reprinted from the unique original copies, mostly in Black Letter, preserved in the Library of, Esq. London, 1867.

A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640 Ed. by, F.S.A. 4 Vols. 1875–1877.



was made free of the Stationers' Company, or, as it is entered in the Register, admitted "brother of this howse," 7th August 1564. Transcript, i. 278.

In the summer of 1566, occurs the following entry&mdash;

The following ballads were not in this First Edition&mdash;

(a) Because the ballads themselves are registered at a later date.