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Thread #30105 Message #3864902
Posted By: Lighter
07-Jul-17 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey (Child #201)
Subject: RE: Origin: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey (Child #201)
ESPB #201 means the song is No. 201 in Francis James Child's _The English and Scottish Popular Ballads_ (1882-1898). The indispensable reference!
The Guthrie Manuscript is a collection of tablatures found bound together with sermon manuscripts of James Laing, a Covenanter executed in 1661. The ms., app. not written by Laing, seems to date from about 1675-1680. It is in the Library of Edinburgh University.
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