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Thread #37909   Message #530868
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
18-Aug-01 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Epilog to Dog and Gun / Golden Glove
Subject: RE: Epilog to 'Dog and Gun'
For a few more, see:

Lumpy Tums
King Edward IV & the Tanner of Tamworth

At  Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, you'll find the 18th century Staffordshire Maid, another resourceful woman.  By the 19th century, though, she had relocated to London as The Undaunted Female (also found in tradition as Box on Her Head).

There's also the rather nasty Staffordshire Tragedy ("In Burton [on one sheet, Buxton] Town in Staffordshire...").