List of the Child Ballads

"The Twa Corbies", an Arthur Rackham illustration of Child ballad 26.

The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. ^[1]

The ballads

Child ballads

Number	Title	Synopsis
1	Riddles Wisely Expounded	A knight refuses to marry a young woman unless she can answer the riddles he poses. Or the Devil threatens to carry off a young woman (or women) unless his riddles are answered.
2	The Elfin Knight	A man and woman ask each other to do a series of seemingly impossible tasks.
3	The Fause Knight Upon the Road	A riddling exchange between a schoolboy and a "false knight," the devil in disguise.
4	Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight	A man courts a woman and intends to kill her, but she turns the tables and kills him instead.
5	Gil Brenton	A man marries a woman, but it turns out that she is not a maiden. His mother talks to the bride, and it turns out that the man himself had impregnated her when he first met her.
6	Willie's Lady	A rank witch enchants her hated daughter-in-law so her baby will never be born. "Baby" is then made from loaf of wax, curses are overheard and removed, and a son is eventually born.
7	Earl Brand	The hero, who may be Earl Brand, Lord Douglas, or Lord William, flees with the heroine, who may be Lady Margaret. A Carl Hood may betray them to her father, but they are always pursued. The hero kills the pursuers and is mortally wounded. He gets the heroine to his mother's house, but when he dies, she dies of sorrow.
8	Erlinton	Erlinton imprisons his daughter in her bower, to keep her from sinning. She persuades her sister to go to the woods with her, and escapes her with her lover Willie. They are attacked, by knights or outlaws, but he fights and kills them all, and they escape.
9	The Fair Flower of Northumberland	A knight persuades the Earl's daughter, the fair flower, to free him and come with him to Scotland, by promising to marry her. As soon as they reach his home, he tells her to return to Northumberland as he already has a wife and children. She pleads with him to take her as a servant, or to kill her, both of which he refuses. Terrified, she returns.
10	The Twa Sisters [or Minnorie or Binnorie]	A man courts the eldest of a group of sisters while falling in love with the youngest. The eldest sister murders the younger out of jealousy, but the eldest is often punished in the end.
11	The Cruel Brother	A knight (or lord) courts a lady. She tells him he must win the consent of her kin. He neglects that of her brother John. John mortally stabs her on her wedding day. She lives long enough to make various bequests, such as clothing to her mother, a fan to her sister; John invariably receives "a gallows to hang him on" and his wife may receive grief for her entire life and his children that they would have to beg, though the wife may get a widow's weeds and a quiet life, or his son the grace of God to be a man.
12	Lord Randall	A young man has a conversation with his mother in which it is revealed that he has been poisoned by his sweetheart.
13	Edward	A young man has a conversation with a female relative in which it is revealed that he had killed a male relative. He then pronounces a punishment upon himself.
14	Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie	A man meets three sisters and threatens to kill each one in turn if she will not be his wife. He kills the first two, but when he tries to kill the youngest, he finds that he is their brother and takes his own life.
15	Leesome Brand	Leesome Brand went to court when ten years old. An eleven-year-old girl fell in love with him, but nine months later, called on him to saddle horses, take her dowry, and flee with her. They headed to his mother's house, but she went into labour on the way. He went off to hunt, but violated a prohibition she laid on him, either not to hunt a milk-white hind, or to come running when called, and she and his son died. He went home and lamented this to his mother.
16	Sheath and Knife	A sister is pregnant with her brother's child. She asks him to kill her, or dies in childbirth. He buries both of them and grieves. The sheath and knife represent his sister and child.
17	Hind Horn	A man leaves his sweetheart while in possession of a ring which will turn pale when she is unfaithful to him. When the ring grows pale, he comes back and finds that she is about to be married to someone else. He exchanges clothes with a beggar, begs for wine from her, and slips the ring in the glass. She recognizes him and abandons her bridegroom.
18	Sir Lionel
19	King Orfeo	King Orfeo's wife is stolen away by the fairies. He plays his instrument for the fairies in order to win her back.
20	The Cruel Mother	A young woman becomes pregnant while unmarried. She kills her child after it is born and later sees its ghost. Sometimes there are two children.
21	The Maid and the Palmer (The Samaritan Woman)	A palmer begs a cup from a maid who is washing at the well, so that he could drink from. She says she has none. He says that she would have, if her lover came. She swore she had never had a lover. He says that she has borne six babies and tells her where she buried the bodies. She begs some penance from him. He tells her that she will be transformed into a stepping-stone for seven years, a bell-clapper for seven, and spends seven years in hell.
22	St. Stephen and Herod	Depicts the martyrdom of Saint Stephen as occurring, with wild anachronism, under Herod the Great, and claims that that was the reason for St. Stephen's Day being the day after Christmas.
23	Judas	Christ gives Judas 30 pieces of silver to buy food for the Apostles; on his way to the market, Judas is waylaid by his sister, who lulls him to sleep and steals the money. Unwilling to confess his loss, Judas sells Christ to the Romans for the same amount.
24	Bonnie Annie	Annie, a merchant's daughter, falls in love with a sea captain and goes to sea with him, in some variants while pregnant. Something goes wrong, and they determine that Annie is the cause of it. She makes the captain throw her overboard. They escape, recover her body, and bury her.
25	Willie's Lyke-Wake	Willie sets up his wake and lies in his winding cloth. His love discovers this and pleads with her father to let her go. When he does, and she enters the room, Willie rouses himself and declares that he will marry her at once.
26	The Three Ravens (or Twa Corbies)	A number of ravens see a dead knight and speculate about how they either cannot eat him because his hawk, hounds, and lady are watching him, or can eat him because he has been abandoned.
27	The Whummil Bore	The narrator served the king seven years and "saw his daughter only once" - meaning saw her naked, through a whummil bore. She was being dressed by her maids.
28	Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane	Burd Ellen is weeping. Young Tamlane tells her to rock her son. She tells him to rock the child himself, she has done more than her share. Instead, he goes to sea, with her curse.
29	The Boy and the Mantle	A boy comes to King Arthur's court with an enchanted mantle that can not be worn by an unfaithful wife. Guinevere dons it, and so does every other lady in the court; only one can wear it, and only after she confesses to kissing her husband before their marriage. Other boys also bring a wild boar, that can not be cut by a cuckold's knife, and a cup that a cuckold can not drink from without spilling it, and these also reveal that every wife at court has been unfaithful.
30	King Arthur and King Cornwall	After bragging about the excellence of his famed Round Table, King Arthur is told by Guinevere that another king has an even better one. Arthur and his company leave their kingdom (here Brittany rather than Great Britain) in disguise searching for this king, and eventually come to Cornwall, where the resident monarch offends them with a series of boasts about his magical items, the child he fathered on Guinevere, and Arthur's comparative mediocrity. All go off to bed, and the Knights of the Round Table make a series of vows against Cornwall's boasts, such as Gawain's declaration that he will make off with Cornwall's daughter.
31	The Marriage of Sir Gawain	Gawain marries a loathly lady in order to save King Arthur from death. It is later revealed that she is a beautiful lady under a spell.
32	King Henry
33	Kempy Kay
34	Kemp Owyne	The heroine is turned into a worm (dragon), usually by her stepmother, who curses her to remain so until the king's son comes to kiss her three times. When he arrives, she offers him a belt, a ring, and a sword to kiss her, promising the things would magically protect him; the third time, she turns back into a woman. In some variants, he asks who enchanted her, a werewolf or mermaid; she says it was her stepmother and curses her into a monstrous creature, permanently.
35	Allison Gross	It tells the story of "the ugliest witch in the north country" who tries to persuade a man to become her lover and then punishes him by a transformation.
36	The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea	A young man, transformed into a laily (loathly, or loathsome) worm, tells his story: his father married an evil woman as his stepmother, and she transformed him into a worm and his sister into a mackerel. His sister combed his hair every Saturday. He has killed seven knights, and if the man he was speaking to was not his father, he would be the eighth. His father sends for the stepmother, who claims his children are at court. He makes her use her silver wand to turn his son back, and then her magic horn to summon the fish, although the daughter holds back rather than let the stepmother transform her again. The father burns the stepmother at the stake.
37	Thomas Rymer	A minstrel meets an elfin lady under a tree and has to serve her in elf land for seven years.
38	The Wee Wee Man	The narrator meets with a wee, wee man. He lifts an enormous stone and throws it, and she thinks that if she were as strong as Wallace, she could have lifted it to her knee. She asks him where he lives, and he has her come with him to a hall where there is a lady, sometimes explicitly called the fairy queen, and her ladies, usually twenty-four and so beautiful that the ugliest would make a fit queen of Scotland, but they, and the wee, wee man, instantly vanish.
39	Tam Lin	A young woman saves her lover from being used for the teind on Hallows Eve.
40	The Queen of Elfan's Nourice	A mortal woman laments being taken from her four-day-old son. The Queen of Elfland promises that if she nurses the queen's child, she will be returned. The Queen then points out their path: the road to Elfland, rather than to Heaven or Hell.
41	Hind Etin	Lady Margaret goes to the woods, and her breaking a branch is questioned by Hind Etin, who takes her with him into the forest. She bears him seven sons, but laments that they are never christened, nor she herself churched. One day, her oldest son goes hunting with Hind Etin and asks him why his mother always weeps. Hind Etin tells him, and then one day goes hunting without him. The oldest son takes his mother and brothers and brings them out of the woods. In some variants, they are welcomed back; in all, the children are christened, and their mother, churched.
42	Clerk Corvill	Clerk Colvill, ignoring the advice of his lady or his mother, goes to a body of water, where a mermaid seduces him. His head starts to ache, and the mermaid tells him he will die of it. He goes home and dies. In some variants, she offers that he may go to sea with her instead of dying, at the end, and he refuses.
43	The Broomfield Hill	A man and a woman make a wager, that she can not visit him in the greenwood without losing her virginity, or she makes a tryst and realizes she can either stay and be foresworn, or go and lose her virginity. She goes, sometimes after advice from a witch-wife, and puts him in an enchanted sleep; then, leaving tokens that she had come and gone. He wakes and taxes those with him—his goshawk, his servingmen, his horse, or his hound—that they did not wake him, but they answer it was impossible. He is angry that he did not manage to take her virginity and, in many variants, murder her afterward.
44	The Twa Magicians	A blacksmith threatens to deflower (take the virginity of) a lady, who vows to keep herself a maiden. A transformation chase ensues, differing in several variants, but containing such things as she becomes a hare, and he catches her as greyhound, she became a duck and he became either a water dog or a drake. In the Child version of the ballad she does not escape, but in other common renderings, she does.
45	King John and the Bishop	King John, covetous of the bishop of Canterbury's wealth, compels him on pain of death to answer three impossible questions. The bishop's shepherd appears in disguise to substitute in his place, and answers the questions cleverly in riddle fashion, after which the appeased king rewards the shepherd and spares the bishop.
46	Captain Wedderburn's Courtship	Versions differ, but generally a captain meets a lady walking in the woods or through an estate. Sometimes he takes her to where he is staying. In all variants, she says she will not marry or sleep with him without his answering riddles. She asks them. He answers them all, and they are married and/or he takes her to bed.
47	Proud Lady Margaret	A man arrives at the heroine's castle to woo her. She is frequently critical of him, on the grounds that his clothing shows him to be no gentleman. In most variants, he taxes her with riddles such as "What's the first thing in flower?" (primrose), and in the end, she accepts his suit. He reveals that he is her brother and a ghost, sometimes after she has said she will go with him and he must forbid, as it will kill her. He tells her he has come to curb her haughtiness.
48	Young Andrew	Andrew seduces Helen and tells her he will fulfill his promise to marry her only if she brings him her father's gold. She does. He robs her not only of it but all her clothing. She goes home, naked. Her father is furious. Her heart breaks, killing her, and her father regrets it. Meanwhile, Andrew encountered a wolf in the woods, and it killed him; the gold still lies by his body.
49	The Twa Brothers	Two brothers are wrestling when a blade that one of them is carrying mortally wounds the other; occasionally, one of them stabs the other intentionally. Attempts to staunch the blood are not successful, and the dying brother tells the living one (usually) how to bury him, and (always) a long list of excuses to give the rest of the family, about his traveling to distant locations, to avoid admitting his death, ending with the injunction to tell his true love the truth.
50	The Bonny Hind	A squire persuades a maiden to lie with him. Afterward, she asks his name, and he reveals that he is a lord's son. She calls him a liar: she is that lord's daughter. The horror-struck son reveals that he was long at sea. She stabs herself to death, and he buries her. He goes home and grieves for a "bonny hind" whatever his father can do to distract him.
51	Lizie Wan	The heroine—Lizie, Rosie, Lucy—is pregnant with her brother's child. Her brother murders her. He tries to pass off the blood as some animal he had killed—his greyhound, his falcon, his horse—but in the end must admit that he murdered her. He sets sail in a ship, never to return.
52	The King's Dochter Lady Jean	The heroine goes to the woods. A man meets her, tries to woo her, and rapes her. He asks her name, and they learn that they are brother and sister. In some variants, he kills her; in most, she goes home, and is tasked by her family for why she ails, and she and her brother both die when they meet there.
53	Young Beichan [or Young Bekie]	The hero is thrown into a dungeon in a far country. His captor's daughter frees him, and he pledges to marry her. On returning home, however, he is forced to marry. She arrives in time to stop the wedding.
54	The Cherry-Tree Carol	Mary, the mother of Jesus, asks her husband Joseph to pick her fruit from a tree. When he refuses, Jesus causes the tree to bend its branches down to her.
55	The Carnal and the Crane	A carnal tells a crane about the birth of Jesus: that he was born in a stable, of a virgin, and slept in a manger; that the Magi told King Herod of the birth, Herod said that if it were true, the cock on his table would revive and crow, and the cock did so; that Herod ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, that St. Joseph had to flee to Egypt and beasts worshiped Jesus on the way; that a husbandman's seed were miraculously sown and brought to harvest when Jesus passed, he reported that to Herod, and Herod, assuming that the growth has been natural, pulled back because he would never have been able to catch them if they were three-quarters of the year ahead.
56	Dives and Lazarus	The rich man Dives or Diverus makes a feast. The poor man Lazarus comes to Dives' door and repeatedly begs 'brother Dives' to give him something to eat and drink. Dives answers that he is not the brother of Lazarus, denies Lazarus food and drink, and sends his servants to whip him and his dogs to bite him. However, the servants are unable to whip Lazarus, and the dogs lick his sores instead of biting him. As both men die angels fetch Lazarus to heaven, and serpents take Dives to hell. In version A, Dives asks Lazarus for a drop of water, and complains about his eternal punishment.
57	Brown Robyn's Confession	Brown Robyn goes to sea. On shipboard, they are unable to see any lights in the sky. They "cast kevels"[clarification needed] which indicated that it was because of Brown Robyn. He confesses to incestuous relations with his mother (who bore him two children) and his sister (who bore five), or, in other variants, to killing his father. He tells them to tie him to a piece of wood and let him sink or swim. He swims. Our Blessed Lady, with her "dear young son", appears to him and asks him if he would return to his men or come to heaven with her and her child. He asks to go to heaven. She tells him that it is not for any good he has done but for confessing his sin that he may come.
58	Sir Patrick Spens	Sir Patrick is ordered by the king to bring the King of Norway's daughter home. A storm comes up while they are sailing back to Scotland from Norway and the crew of the ship are drowned.
59	Sir Aldingar	Sir Aldingar is spurned by the queen and attempts to get revenge on her by putting a leper in her bed. A child saves her from the stake by championing her in a trial by combat.
60	King Estmere	King Estmere's brother Alder the Younger urges him to marry King Adland's daughter, and suggests that he look at the lady himself, rather than be deceived by any description. Once there, King Adland warns them that she put off the King of Spain, but he has her come down and she agrees to marry him, despite the threats of the King of Spain. King Estmere leaves, the King of Spain attacks, and the daughter sent a page after King Estmere to warn him of her danger. Adler is the son of a magician-woman and enchants King Estmere into the shape of a harper and himself into his boy. They infiltrate the castle, Alder kills the King of Spain, and the two fight off all his men. King Estmere and the daughter marry.
61	Sir Cawline	Sir Cawline falls ill for love of the king's daughter; she attends him. He desires to prove himself worthy of her; she sends him to vanquish the elvish king. He then defeats a giant threatening to wed her, and survives a lion attack before marrying her.
62	Fair Annie	A lord tells Fair Annie to prepare a welcome for his bride, and to look like a maiden. Annie laments that she has borne him seven sons and is pregnant with the eighth; she can not look like a maiden. She welcomes the bride but laments her fate, even wishing her sons evil, that they might be rats and she a cat. The bride comes to ask her why she grieves, and then asks her what her family was before the lord stole her. Then she reveals that she is Annie's full sister and will give her her dowry, so that Annie can marry the lord instead of her; she is a maiden still and so can return home.
63	Child Waters	The pregnant Margaret, or Faire Ellen, is told by Child Waters (or Lord John) that she should bide at home. In some variants, he offers her lands to support his child, and she tells him that she would rather have one kiss from him than all his lands. He tells her that she must dress his footpage and will suffer—in some variants, even worse conditions that his horse and hound. She still goes with him. After they arrive at home, she gives birth. Child Waters gives her the best bed in his castle to lie in and promises that they will marry on the same day that she is churched.
64	Fair Janet	Janet is in love with Willie, but her father insists on her marrying a French lord. They attempt to flee, but she goes into labor and can not escape. She hands their baby to Willie, for his care, and he delivers the baby to his mother and goes to the wedding. Janet is ill and dies during the dancing. In many variants, the bridegroom swears that no church bells will ring for her, and Willie that they all will. In most, Willie dies within a day, and those where he does not, the story cuts off.
65	Lady Maisry	The heroine—Maisry, Janet, Margery, Marjory, Susie—becomes pregnant (sometimes after rejecting many Scottish lords). She declares that she will not surrender her (often English) true love. Her family goes to burn her. A page boy goes to fetch the true love, but he arrives too late.
66	Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet	Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet are brothers who fall in love with the same woman, Maisry. She falls in love with Wyet and becomes pregnant by him. Her father arranges the marriage to Lord Ingram. At the wedding, he learns of the baby; he may offer to claim the baby as his own, and she refuses, or he refuses. Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet kill each other. Lady Maisry goes mad, resolving to beg, or go on pilgrimage, until she dies, and more for Lord Ingram than Chiel Wyet.
67	Glasgerion	Glasgerion is a king's son and a harper. He harps before another king, whose daughter arranges a tryst with him. He tells his servant to ensure that he wakes in time to make the tryst. The servant goes in his place and rapes the princess. She learns the truth and kills herself, sometimes because she can not offer herself as Glasgerion's bride. Glasgerion kills his servant and either kills himself as well or goes mad.
68	Young Hunting
69	Clerk Saunders
70	Willie and Lady Maisry
71	The Bent Sae Brown
72	The Clerk's Twa Sons O Owsenford
73	Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
74	Fair Margaret and Sweet William	Fair Margaret espies the marriage procession of her lover Sweet William and another woman from her high chamber window. Depending on the variation, Margaret either commits suicide or dies of a broken heart. Her ghost then appears before Sweet William to ask him if he loves his new bride more than herself, and William replies he loves Margaret better. In the morning, William commences to search for Margaret. Upon arriving at her estate, Margaret's family shows William the corpse. In some versions, Sweet William dies of heartbreak as well, and they are buried beside each other.
75	Lord Lovel	A lord tells his lady he is going away. After a time he longs to see her so he returns, hears of her death and dies of grief. They are buried together and a lovers' knot grows.
76	The Lass of Roch Royal	A woman comes to Gregory's castle, pleading to be let in; she is either pregnant or with a newborn son. His mother turns her away; sometimes she tells her that he went to sea, and she goes to follow him and dies in shipwreck. Gregory wakes and says he dreamed of her. He chases her, finds her body, and dies.
77	Sweet William's Ghost	A lover, usually named William or a variant, appears as a ghost to his love, usually Margaret or a variant. He asks her to release him from his promise to marry her. She may insist that he actually marry her, but he says that he is dead; she may insist that he kiss her, but he says that one kiss would kill her; she may insist on some information about the afterlife, and he tells her some of it; he may tell her that his promise to marry her is a hellhound that will destroy him if she does not free him. In the end she always releases him from his promise, although in some versions she then dies upon his grave.
78	The Unquiet Grave	A man mourns his true love for "a twelve month and a day". At the end of that time, the dead woman complains that his weeping is keeping her from peaceful rest. He begs a kiss. She tells him it would kill him. When he persists, wanting to join her in death, she explains that once they were both dead their hearts would simply decay, and that he should enjoy life while he has it.
79	The Wife of Usher's Well
80	Old Robin of Portingale
81	Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (or "Matty Groves")	A noble lady seduces a commoner. They are caught in bed by her husband who kills her lover in a duel. He then also kills her after she expresses a continuing preference for the lover over him.
82	The Bonny Birdy	A knight is riding when a bird asks him why he is about so late and tells him his wife is with her lover. It had been a wild bird until the lover caught it and gave it to his love. She did not feed it well, so it is telling her story. It flew with the knight to her bower, and sang of how the lover should be away. The lady asks what reason there is for him to leave, and the bird sings that a man in bed with another man's wife should always leave quickly. The knight enters the bower and kills the lover.
83	Child Maurice	The hero sends tokens to his lady and asks her to see him in the woods. Her lord learns of it and comes to where he will meet her, and kills him uder the impression that he is her paramour. He brings back the head, and the lady confesses that he was her illegitimate son. Her lord is deeply grieved and declares he would never have killed him if he had known.
84	Bonny Barbara Allen	A young man lies dying for the love of Barbara Allen; he has a servant summon her to his bedside for solace, but she does little but scorn him. Denied his true love, the hero succumbs to illness; in some versions, he leaves her an inheritance before dying. Upon hearing the church bells of his funeral, Barbara Allen regrets her decision and senses that her own death is near. She too dies of heartbreak, and they are buried beside one another.
85	Lady Alice
86	Young Benjie
87	Prince Robert
88	Young Johnstone
89	Fause Foodrage
90	Jellon Grame
91	Fair Mary of Wallington
92	Bonny Bee Hom
93	Lamkin
94	Young Waters
95	The Maid Freed from the Gallows
96	The Gay Goshawk
97	Brown Robin
98	Brown Adam
99	Johnie Scot
100	Willie O Winsbury	A king is away for a long time. His daughter becomes pregnant by the hero, William or Thomas. The king threatens to hang him, but is struck by his beauty and offers him the heroine and gold. The hero accepts the lady but declares that he has both gold and lands enough of his own.
101	Willie O Douglas Dale
102	Willie and the Earl Richard's Daughter
103	Rose the Red and White Lily
104	Prince Heathen
105	The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
106	The Famous Flower of Serving-Men
107	Will Stewart and John
108	Christopher White
109	Tom Potts
110	The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter
111	Crow and Pie
112	The Baffled Knight
113	The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
114	Johnie Cock	Despite his mother's warning, the titular character goes poaching in woods. He is betrayed to a group of foresters, but fights them off.
115	Robyn and Gandeleyn
116	Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly
117	A Gest of Robyn Hode
118	Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne
119	Robin Hood and the Monk
120	Robin Hood's Death
121	Robin Hood and the Potter
122	Robin Hood and the Butcher
123	Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
124	The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
125	Robin Hood and Little John
126	Robin Hood and the Tanner
127	Robin Hood and the Tinker
128	Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
129	Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
130	Robin Hood and the Scotchman
131	Robin Hood and the Ranger
132	The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
133	Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
134	Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
135	Robin Hood and the Shepherd
136	Robin Hood's Delight
137	Robin Hood and the Pedlars
138	Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale
139	Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
140	Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
141	Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
142	Little John a Begging
143	Robin Hood and the Bishop
144	Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
145	Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
146	Robin Hood's Chase
147	Robin Hood's Golden Prize
148	The Noble Fisherman, or, Robin Hood's Preferment
149	Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
150	Robin Hood and Maid Marian
151	The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
152	Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
153	Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
154	A True Tale of Robin Hood
155	Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter
156	Queen Elanor's Confession
157	Gude Wallace
158	Hugh Spencer's Feats in France
159	Durham Ford
160	The Knight of Liddesdale
161	The Battle of Otterburn
162	The Hunting of Cheviot (The Ballad of Chevy Chase)
163	The Battle of Harlaw
164	King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France
165	Sir John Butler
166	The Rose of England
167	Sir Andrew Barton
168	Flodden Field (describes the Battle of Flodden Field)
169	Johnie Armstrong
170	The Death of Queen Jane
171	Thomas Cromwell
172	Musselburgh Field
173	Mary Hamilton
174	Earl Bothwell
175	The Rising of the North
176	Northumberland Betrayed By Douglas
177	The Earl of Westmoreland
178	Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon
179	Rookhope Ryde
180	King James and Brown
181	The Bonny Earl of Murray
182	The Laird O Logie
183	Willie MacIntosh
184	The Lads of Wamphray
185	Dick o the Cow
186	Kinmont Willie
187	Jock o the Side
188	Archie o Cawfield
189	Hobie Noble
190	Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead
191	Hughie Grame
192	The Lochmaben Harper
193	The Death of Parcy Reed
194	The Laird of Wairston
195	Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
196	The Fire of Frendraught
197	James Grant
198	Bonny John Seton
199	The Bonnie House o Airlie
200	The Gypsy Laddie
201	Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
202	The Battle of Philiphaugh
203	The Baron of Brackley
204	Jamie Douglas
205	Loudon Hill, or, Drumclog (recounts the events of the Battle of Drumclog)
206	Bothwell Bridge
207	Lord Delamere
208	Lord Derwentwater
209	Geordie
210	Bonnie James Campbell
211	Bewick and Graham
212	The Duke of Athole's Nurse
213	Sir James the Rose
214	The Braes o Yarrow
215	Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, the Water o Gamrie
216	The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water
217	Broom of the Cowdenknowes
218	The False Lover Won Back
219	The Gardener
220	The Bonny Lass of Anglesey
221	Katharine Jaffray
222	Bonny Baby Livingstone
223	Eppie Morrie
224	The Lady of Arngosk
225	Rob Roy
226	Lizie Lindsay
227	Bonny Lizie Baillie
228	Glasgow Peggie
229	Earl Crawford
230	The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain
231	The Earl of Errol
232	Richie Story
233	Andrew Lammie
234	Charlie MacPherson
235	The Earl of Aboyne
236	The Laird o Drum
237	The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
238	Glenlogie, or, Jean o Bethelnie
239	Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie
240	The Rantin Laddie
241	The Baron o Leys
242	The Coble o Cargill
243	James Harris (The Daemon Lover)
244	James Hatley
245	Young Allan
246	Redesdale and Wise William
247	Lady Elspat
248	The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father?
249	Auld Matrons
250	Henry Martyn [aka Henry Martin]
251	Lang Johnny More
252	The Kitchie-Boy
253	Thomas o Yonderdale
254	Lord William, or, Lord Lundy
255	Willie's Fatal Visit
256	Alison and Willie
257	Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick
258	Broughty Wa's
259	Lord Thomas Stuart
260	Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret
261	Lady Isabel
262	Lord Livingstone
263	The New-Slain Knight
264	The White Fisher
265	The Knight's Ghost
266	John Thomson and the Turk
267	The Heir of Linne
268	The Twa Knights
269	Lady Diamond
270	The Earl of Mar's Daughter
271	The Lord of Lorn and the Flas Steward
272	The Suffolk Miracle
273	King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth
274	Our Goodman
275	Get Up and Bar the Door
276	The Friar in the Well
277	The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
278	The Farmer's Curst Wife
279	The Jolly Beggar
280	The Beggar-Laddie
281	The Keach i the Creel
282	Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant
283	The Crafty Farmer
284	John Dory
285	The George Aloe and the Sweepstake
286	The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
287	Captain Ward and the Rainbow
288	The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany
289	The Mermaid
290	The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie
291	Child Owlet
292	The West Country Damosel's Complaint
293	John of Hazelgreen
294	Dugall Quin
295	The Brown Girl
296	Walter Lesly
297	Earl Rothes
298	Young Peggy	Peggy secretly meets her lover, Jamie, against her family's wishes. They run away to get married. Peggy's father gives chase but by the time he catches up the wedding papers are signed.
299	Trooper and Maid
300	Blancheflour and Jollyflorice
301	The Queen of Scotland
302	Young Bearwell
303	The Holy Nunnery
304	Young Ronald
305	The Outlaw Murray

References

1. Fumerton, Patricia; Guerrini, Anita; McAbee, Kris (2010). Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800. Ashgate Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 0-7546-6248-9.