The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3407   Message #17033
Posted By: Bruce O.
03-Dec-97 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: Stuart/Hanover capsule history
Subject: RE: Stuart/Hanover capsule history
You've got to be a little careful about deriving your history from folksongs. Many are descendents of broadside ballads, and few of these were politically neutral.

There are several songs on the Glorious Revolution in my internet broadside ballad index. Search on James, William, Ireland, and Protestant. There are more on the seige and relief of London-derry, and several more concerning the subsequent fighting in Flanders. But note, all are from the English point of view, even the figurative lamentations of James II.