My poor Black Bess.
Bayly, Thomas Haynes,1797-1839
[Preston : J. Harkness,
1840-1866?]
Publishing details from the Allegro catalogue of ballads at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
In two columns with an illustration above each.
Three ballads.
My poor Black Bess - first line reads: When fortune, blind goddess, she fled my abode.
Gaily the troubadour touched his guitar - first line reads: Gaily the troubadour touched his guitar.
Woman rules the day - first line reads: Ye lords of the creation.
'505.' is printed at the foot of the second column.
Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739
Ballads, English
Brigands and robbers
England Preston.