BISHOPRIC GARLAND;

OR

DURHAM MINSTREL.

BEING A

CHOICE COLLECTION

OF

EXCELLENT SONGS,

RELATING TO THE ABOVE COUNTY.

Full of agreeable Variety, and pleasant Mirth.

[EDITED BY THE LATE

JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.]

STOCKTON:

PRINTED BY R. CHRISTOPHER.

MDCCLXXXIV.

Licensed and entered according to Order.

A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED.

NEWCASTLE:

PRINTED BY HALL AND ELLIOT.
MDCCXCII.

[LONDON:

REPRINTED FOR R. TRIPHOOK, ST. JAMES'S STREET;
By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

*1. The Durham Garland

*II. The Barnardcastle Tragedy

III. Stockton's Commendation

IV. A new Song, in Praise of Stockton, for

1764

1

11

15

18

20

V. The new Way of Stockton's Commen-

dation

*VI. Stockton's Commendation. A new Song 23

VII. The Hare-skin, by Geo. Knight, Shoe-

maker

VIII. Limbo. By the same Authour

26

80

*IX. The Launching of the Strickland, by

XIII. The frolicsome old Women of Sunder-

land; or, the disappointed young

Maidens

45

XIV. A new Song made on Alice Marley 47

*XV. A new Song in Praise of the Durham

*XVI. The Lass of Cockerton

+XVII. Rookhope Ryde

+XVIII. Lamentation on the death of Sir Ro-

bert de Nevill, lord of Raby, in

1282

PAGE

49

52

54

64

In the second edition of 1792, the numbers distin-
guished with an asterisk (*) were omitted. That edition
at first contained only ten songs; afterwards the last
two articles (marked †, and not in the first edition),
"printed by C. Roworth, Hudson's-Court, Strand,"
were added as numbers XIII. and XIV. ‡, and the
paging regularly continued. EDITOR.

The index of the second edition is correct, but the songs are errone-
ously numbered: after VI. follows IX.

The BISHOPRIC GARLAND, &c.

SONG I.

The DURHAM GARLAND.

In FOUR PARTS.

A Worthy lord of vast estate,

Who did in Durham dwell of late;
But I will not declare his name,
By reason of his birth and fame.
But if you the truth would know,
This lord he did a hunting go,
He had indeed a noble train,

Of lords, and knights, and gentlemen.

Unto fam'd Yorkshire he would ride,

With all his gallants by his side.
In hunting pass'd the time away;
But being weary, as they say,

B