Subject: Ride Through Sandgate
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*#1 PEASANT*
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 07:51 PM
Ride Through Sandgate Ride through Sandgate, both up and down,
there you'll see the gallants fighting for the crown:
All the cull cuckolds in Sunderland town,
With all the bonny blue caps, cannot pull them down. This is a genuine fragment of a ballad relating to Newcastle,
beseiged by Lesley and the Scots army. The blue caps (or Scotchmen),
did, however, at last succeed in pulling them down,
after a most gallant defense, 19th October 1644.
-Source: The Bishoprick Garland or a Collection of Legends, Songs Ballads &c.. Belonging to The County of Durham. London: Nichols, and Baldwin & Cradock. 1834.
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