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Thread #18026   Message #4076176
Posted By: Steve Gardham
20-Oct-20 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Solvay, Solvay / Sovay
Subject: RE: Origins: Solvay, Solvay / Sovay
Independent of Peter I also gave it the Master Title The Female Highwayman for the very same reason. However, on all of the many broadsides she is Sylvia, including the earliest I have by Robertson of Glasgow dated 1802.

'Priscilla in an oral version may have derived from 'Pretty Sylvia' in another oral version.