Frank Kidson contributed the song to JFSS, #9, 1906. He there expressed his belief that the song was derived from "The Fox- Chase...Duke of Buckingham's Hounds", ZN75, in the internet broadside index. (I agree, for what tht's worth) Kidson noted that George Villiers, the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, (1627-88) kept a pack of hounds at Helmsley, Noth Yorkshire. The Folger Shakespeare Library acquired an 18th century copy of the ballad about 10 years ago, and put it on display soon after.

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N:JFSS 9, p. 267, 1906
N:Note by Frank Kidson from Miss Bownass, Windemere
N:As she sang it at a Westmoreland festival in 1903
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