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Thread #110593   Message #2322346
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Apr-08 - 05:40 AM
Thread Name: Origin The Blackleg Miner
Subject: RE: Origin The Blackleg Miner
Lloyd quotes a 15-stanza text as 'The First Drest Man of Seghill (or: The Pitman's Reward for Betraying his Brethren)' in Come All You Bold Miners (2nd edn, 1978, 218-220). 'From a broadside printed by J Marshall of Newcastle (nd, but a handwritten inscription -John Bell's?- on the Sheffield University Library copy indicates '31 March 1831') ... communicated by J S Bell, of Whiston, Lancs.' (notes, p 255).

Martha Vicinus (Broadsides of the Industrial North) apparently places the dated broadside at Sheffield City Library, so one reference or the other is presumably wrong.