EBBA 33075
National Library of Scotland - Crawford
| A New BALLAD / Of the Three Merry Butchers, / [A]nd Ten High-way Men, how three Butchers went to pay five Hundred pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in / the Wood, went to Relieve her, and was there set upon by these Ten High-way Men; and how only stout Johnson / fought with them all; who killed Eight of the Ten; and at last was killed by the woman he went to save in the wood. | |
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| Date Published | 1684-1700 ? |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for J. Bissel at the Hospital-Gate in / West Smithfield. |
| License | Licensed according to Order. |
| Collection | National Library of Scotland - Crawford |
| Location | National Library of Scotland |
| Shelfmark | Crawford.EB.593 |
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| Title | A New BALLAD / Of the Three Merry Butchers, / [A]nd Ten High-way Men, how three Butchers went to pay five Hundred pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in / the Wood, went to Relieve her, and was there set upon by these Ten High-way Men; and how only stout Johnson / fought with them all; who killed Eight of the Ten; and at last was killed by the woman he went to save in the wood. |
| Tune Imprint | To an Excellent New Tune. |
| First Lines | I'LL tell you of a Story of lovely Butchers three, / There's wison, Gibson, Johnson, mark well what I shall say, |
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| Notes | Printed on the verso of EBBA 33879, titled "Villany Rewarded; / OR, THE / PIRATES Last Farewel / To the VVorld: / Who was Executed at Execution Dock, On Wednesday the 25th. of November, 1696. / Being of Every's Crew. Together with their free Confession of their most Horrid Crimes." |