Please Jim Krause, try to remember the name of the folklorist. That history is very interesting to me and I'd very much like to verify it. Broadside copies of "The Gosport Tragedy" are listed at ZN1429 in the broadside ballad index on my website and an ABC of its tune is B367 in the broadside ballad tunes there [I long ago took J. W. Ebworth's atribution of the song to Laurence Price to be nonsense. Price's most recent ballads were of 1658, and he was at least 50 years old then.]