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Thread #29243 Message #4077457
Posted By: Steve Gardham
30-Oct-20 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Allan Tyne of Harrow / Valentine O'Hara
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Allan Tyne of Harrow / Valentine O'Hara
The 'rhino' business intrigues me. He robs a revenue collector carrying £500. What form would this have been in? Bank notes? Mixed coinage? £500 of mixed coinage, he would have needed a handcart, n'est pas? Val then returns 100 guineas to his lady. Even that's quite a big bag. I doubt he had the time to stop and count them so were there 5 bags with 100 guineas in each?
I know, it doesn't pay to think too deeply about detail in a ballad, especially one which is likely to be fictional and the work of a hack.