A new ballad of the three merry butchers, and ten highway-men
Subtitle: How the three butchers went to pay five hundred pounds, and hearing a woman crying in the wood, went to relieve her, and was there set upon by ten highway-men: 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
Publisher: Printed and sold by Robert Marchbank.
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Other titles: Three merry butchers, and ten highwaymen.
Notes: Illustration signed: R M[archbank?].

This version begins "I'll tell you a story/ of lovely butchers three"; adapted from The three vvorthy butchers of the North by Paul Burges, first published ca.1678.

No. 258 in a collection of broadside ballads formed by Thomas Percy.