The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151894   Message #3588771
Posted By: Steve Gardham
03-Jan-14 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Well Sold the Cow/Crafty Farmer-Child 283
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Well Sold the Cow/Crafty Farmer-Child 283
Before I check in detail here is a short answer from my own indexes.

Roud 2637=Laws L1=The Craft Ploughboy (your Yorkshire Bite)

Roud 2638=Laws L2= The Highwayman Outwitted (your Maid of Rygate)

Roud 2640=Child 283=The Crafty Farmer

All 3 are found in oral tradition and on broadsides but the Child ballad is the rarest in oral tradition.

If Steve has some under the wrong number please let me know and I'll give them an overhaul. All 3 are on broadsides c1800 some a little earlier.

With reasonably full versions all 3 are easily distinguished.