Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 450
time. The earliest ballad on thesubject in the British Museum is,* An excellent ballad ofGeorge Barnwell, an apprentice in the City of London, whowas undone by a strumpet, who caused him thrice to rob hismaster and murder his uncle in Ludlow (London, 1670). Lillodramatized it in 1731, and within… … Newcastle : Printed in this present Year. 434 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. Ihe history of the famous highwayman Captain Hind, isevidently taken from a little black-letter book, published 1651,Old Style (or 1652 of our calendar), called Wit for Money;and in that also is found the original…
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