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The Hunting of Chevy-Chase, A bloody battle fought by Earls Douglas and Percy. Where above fourteen hundred Scotsmen, and near two thousand Englishmen, were slain in one day.
A popular ballad describing the battle of Chevy-Chase which resulted from the Earl Percy deciding to hunt deer across the Scottish border, which the Earl of Douglas had expressly forbidden. Percy brings his English force with him, which is then…
The Humours of Glasgow Fair and The Comical Song of Auld John Paul.
The chapbook contains two humorous songs in Scots. The first describes the adventures of a group of friends attending a fair in Glasgow, including quite a bit of drinking, eating, dancing, flirting, fighting, and other tom-foolery, including the…
The Humourous Adventure of Jump Jim Crow
"Jump Jim Crow" or "Jim Crow" is a song and dance from 1828 that was done inblackfaceby white minstrel performerThomas Dartmouth (T. D.) "Daddy" Rice. The song is speculated to have been taken fromJim Crow(sometimes called Jim Cuff or Uncle Joe), a…
The History of Thomas Hickathrift
Wikepedia entry for Thomas Hickathrift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hickathrift
The history of the life and sufferings of Rev. John Welch, sometime minister of the gospel at Ayr.
A short history and biography of the life and death John Welch, a Presbyterian minister in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapbook focuses especially on his reputed powers of divination and other supernatural demonstrations, including…
The History of the Black Douglas. With an account of the Battle of Otterburn
A short history and biography of Sir James Douglas, also known as the Good Lord James and as the Black Douglas, focusing especially on his many exploits against the English in the First War of Scottish Independence, as well as his journey to bring…
The History of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Commonly Called the Pretender.
A short history and biography of the life and death of Bonnie Prince Charlie, focusing especially on the events of the Second Jacobite Rising. This chapbook is one of a series of histories and biographies of notable Scottish figures which have been…
