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The Battle of the Boyn; or, King William crossing the Boyn Water. Giving a full description of that bloody Battle, fought on the first of July 1690. To which are added, The Miller of Dron
This chapbook includes two ballads. The first is a recounting of the events of the Battle of the Boyn wherein King William routes the deposed James II at the Boyn in Ireland during the First Jacobite Rising. There is an interesting play on the…
The excellent old Scottish song of the blaeberry courtship; to which is added The crook & plaid
Two songs about love. The first is the story of the love between a Highland lad and a Lowland girl. The girls’ father is against the match and disinherits her when she decides she runs off with him. In the beginning, it looks like she has made the…
The Duke of Gordon's three daughters; to which are added, Jem of Aberdeen; and the Bonny house o'Airly
A collection of songs and ballads. In the first ballad, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Gordon goes to visit Aberdeen with her sisters and ends up marrying a handsome but poor captain without her father’s consent. When the Duke finds out, he…
Young Grigor's ghost, an old Scotch song
A young Lowland McFarlane woman falls in love with her cousin, the son of a dispossessed Jacobite Highland lord of clan who has been raised and maintained by her father as his ward. Despite his poverty, Grigor is well-educated, good-looking, and in…
