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Brian Peters	Becket Whitehead, Delph, Saddleworth, UK (103* d)	RE: Becket Whitehead, Delph, Saddleworth, UK	29 Oct 20
I guess you'll have seen 'Joan O'Greenfield & Bailiffs' at the Bodleian site, Steve - another printing of the 'Poor Cotton Weaver' text. My research into Peterloo songs has led me to the work of John/Jack Stafford, the radical poet from Ashton-under-Lyne who wrote verses (dialect and standard) in the 1810s/20s to the tunes of both Jo'G and 'Tyrants of England'. There is an intriguing report of a composition of his called';The Poor Cotton Weaver', but I haven't yet found the text. However, here is still no evidence of a song beginning 'I'm a four-loom weaver...' having appeared during the 1860s.

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