A new ballad of the three merry butchers, : and 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. To an excellent new tune.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--17th century.

Ballads, English.

Genre:

Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (woodcuts)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Bissel, and sold by J. Foster, at the sign of the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner, [between 1687 and 1696]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1687-1696.

Verse: "I'll tell you a story of lovely Butchers three,".

Copy cut and mounted.

Two copies made ; second copy faded.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A6:1[294]) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) N569A

Roxburghe ballads Rox.III.496

Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.20.f.9[496]

Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.20.f.9[497]

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