A collection of songs on a variety of themes, including the celebrated battle of Killicrankie, love betrayed, love pursued and obtained, and a comical situation between a woman who keeps requesting presents from her lover on his way to town, and his…

A song describing the battle between the Earl of Douglas and Lord Percy that took place when Douglas decided to raid across the border into Northumberland. It appears to be a modernization of a much earlier ballad. Both sides appear to fight…

Set during the wars of independence in South America, this story describes the adventures of a company of British seamen and their Scottish captain who became privateers and occasional pirates along the Chilean and Peruvian coast. In an act of…

A collection of ballads and songs. The first is a Jacobite song celebrating the arrival of Prince Charlie and the Highland spirit. The rest of the songs are a variety of love songs, both cheerful and lamenting, between a variety of different…

A rather shocking cautionary ballad meant to encourage young women to guard their virginity and not be coaxed by men into pre-marital relations. In the tale, a merchant’s daughter is courted by a squire’s son at Oxford. A marriage date is agreed upon…

A Cinderella-type story wherein the daughter of a squire is cast off at birth by her father for being born a girl and not a son. Her mother sends her to the country but makes certain she is well-clothed and educated. As a young woman, she dresses…

This short story tells the tale of a well-off Lord who pretends to have lost his fortune in order to distinguish his true friends from the flatterers. When all but one of his friends abandon him, he decides that none of the upper-class ladies are…