In case this helps, The Testimony of Patience Kershaw was included in "My Song is My Own" - an anthology of 100 women's songs put together by Kathy Henderson, Frankie Armstrong and Sandra Kerr, and published by Pluto Press in 1979. The note says that the song was written by Frank Higgins in 1969, based on testimony given by 17-year old Patience Kershaw to the Royal Commission on Children's Employment, 1842. It was reproduced by kind permission of EFDS Publications Ltd (Chappell & Co Ltd).

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