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Posted By: masato sakurai
18-Nov-06 - 10:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mediaeval ballad on Thomas Becket
Subject: RE: Mediaeval ballad on Thomas Becket
According to Richard Leighton Greene, The Early English Carols, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1977, pp. 60-61[no. 114], 369-370 [notes]), it's from:a. British Museum. MS. Sloan 2593 XV cent.
b. Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. MS. 383, pp. 68, 69. XV cent (burden and stzas. 1, 3, 2, 4-6, 8, 9).
c. Public Record Office. Chauncery Miscellanea, Bundle 34, File 1, No. 12, f.Irand v. XV cent.
d. Balliol College, Oxford. MS. 354, ff. 227v, 228r. XVI cent. (burden and stzas. 1-5, 7).
Medieval carols include "political" ones.