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Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry.

Title: Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry. Now first pub. by R.H. Cromek ...
Author: Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley), 1770-1812.
Publication: London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.

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1 p. ℓ., viii, xxxii, 370 p.; 20 cm.

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Title vignette.
Almost wholly the work of Allan Cunningham, who supplied Cromek with original poems, disguised as old ballads, etc. Whether Cromek suspected the imposition is not clear. cf. Dict. nat. biog. and D. Hogg, Life of A. Cunningham. 1875 (esp. p. 49-, & 79)

Contents

Introduction.--Sentimental ballads.--Humorous ballads.--Jacobite ballads, 1715.--Jacobite ballads, 1745.--Old ballads and fragments.--Appendix: Scottish games. A specimen of the tender mercies of Claverhouse, from the Life of Alexander Peden. 'Taking the Beuk.' Description of the stool of repentance. History of witchcraft, sketched from the popular tales of the peasantry of Nithsdale and Galloway. Character of the Scottish lowland fairies. Particulars of the escape of Lord Nithsdale from the Tower, in 1716. Account of Billy Blin', the Scotch brownie. Brief memoir of the life of John Lowe, author of 'Mary's dream,' by William Gillespie. Mary's dream. Old way of Mary's dream.

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NCK (Cromek, R. H. Remains of Nithsdale)

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15018038

OCLC

3790522

Author

Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley), 1770-1812.

Title

Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry. Now first pub. by R.H. Cromek ...

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London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.

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Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842.

Gillespie, William, 1776-1825.

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NCK (Cromek, R. H. Remains of Nithsdale)

NDP (Cromek, R. H. Remains of Nithsdale)

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