Thanks a million, folks, please keep the info coming. If it is of any help, here is the song itself and my source.

THE DUKE OF BEDFORD
Traditional

Sung by William Atkinson (80) at Marylebone Workhouse, London, 9 October 1908. Collected by Cecil Sharp.


1. Six huntsmen went hunting down by the seaside
And they spied a dead body washed away by the tide.

2. They took him to Portsmouth, the place he was known,
And straight away to London, to the place he was born.

3. They opened his bowels and stretched out his feet
And garnished him all over with the lilies so sweet.

4. 'Twas the noble Duke of Bedford the sea had upthrown,
The noble Duke of Bedford the sea had upthrown.

5. But some folk disputed the huntsmen's bare word
Until a grand old lady cried, 'O 'tis my dear Am lord.'

6. She kneeled down beside him and kissed his cold cheek
And lowly she did murmur, 'My poor heart will break

7. For him I did worship who no more will speak
To kindred or to vassals who gaze on the form

8. Of the noble Duke of Bedford in his coffin if stone,
The noble Duke of Bedford in his coffin of stone.

9. Within Woburn Abbey his body was laid
Amongst his ancestors whose deeds are not dead.

10. And a weird rush of waters is heard on the day
That a noble Duke of Bedford did pass away

Source: Found in the book, The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs collected by Cecil Sharp, edited by Maud Karpeles.