OK, here's a summary so far:

1. Women be beste whan they be at Reste
Nothing really, though Bruce has notes on an early ballad called "The man is blest, That lyves in rest".


2. A maid that wolde mary with a servynge man
Bruce has notes on a copy of this as originally published, catalogued in Carol R. Livingston's 'British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century', 1991. Words to follow if it's in an accessibl;e collection!


3. I will have a widow yf ever I marye
Nothing on this as yet.


4. Whan Ragynge love

Words are in Tottel's "Miscellany" (Richard Tottel's "Songs and Sonnets", 1557).


5. The Daye of the lord ys at hande
Nothing. Possibly a religious tract.


6. Who lyve so merye and make suche sporte / As they yat be of the pooreste sorte
The words in Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia are most probably for this. Walrus has suggested that it might be identified with "The Sand Seller".


7. a ballett of THOMALYN
Suspected that this could be Tam Lin, though Bruce thinks it might be Brian O'Lynn.


8. betwene a Ryche farmer and his Doughter
9. An Epytaph upon the Deathe of kynge EDWARDE ye SEXTE
10. a ballett of the talk betwene ij maydes
11. a ballett of good wives
12. The m[o]urninge of EDWARDE Duke of BUCKYNGHAM
Nothing on these as yet.


13. a ballett of the lover and of the byrde
Giac has suggested "Love Henry". How about "The Maid and The Magpie" ;-)


14. Tomorrow shalbe my fathers wake
Nothing on this as yet.


15. a ballett of a man that wolde be unmaryed agayne
Suggested "I Wis I was Single Again".


15a of the ryche man and poore LAZARUS
Generally regarded as being "Dives and Lazarus".


16. a ballett of the ABC of a preste called HEUGH STORMY &c.
Nothing on this as yet. An ABC.


17. a ballytt of [?] made by NYCHOLASSE BALTROPPE
No chance!


18. The aged mans ABC
Nothing on this as yet. An ABC


19. a ballett of wakefylde and agrene
Probably not "The Pinder of Wakefield".


20. a ballett of a mylner
21. a ballett of God send me a wyffe that will Do as I saye
22. a ballett of I will no more go to the ploughe
Nothing on these as yet.


23. another new ballett annexed to the above
No chance!


24. a ballett of admonysshion to leave swerynge
24a a ballett for my solas
Nothing on these as yet.


25. a ballett In winters Juste Retorne
In Tottel's "Miscellany" - see above.


26. a ballett yf ever I mary I will mary a mayde
27. a ballett then and in those Dayes then I say then / knaves that be now will become honest men
28. a ballett yt was a man in age truly
29. a ballett Rose ys frome my garden gonne
Nothing on these as yet.


30. yf Care may Cause men crye
In Tottel's "Miscellany" - see above.


31. The sorrowes that Doth increase
Nothing on this as yet.


Has anyone come across any information about the 2 "death" ballads (9 and 12)? 9 must have been quite popular, as it was re-licensed to someone else the next year (or a different version was licensed). Could 12 have been the original of "Six Dukes Went a'Fishing"? ;-^