In fact, Child included few broadside versions, which he tended to despise as, in his words, 'a veritable dunghill', unless they had appeared in some such previous collections as the Douce ballads, Pepys, Harley, Scott's Minstrelsy, Percy's Reliques, &c, together with Scandinavian (& other European) analogues from such compilations as Grundtvig's; which, as I said above, were his primary source. But broadsides were not, as Grishka claims, in any way 'the staple' of his collection.

~M~