London Prentice Boy, The

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you young chaps who iive both far and near" as the 'prentice tells how his girlfriend urges him to kill her master, and threatens him if he doesn't. He gives in an does it. At his trial, she turns on him; he is transported to Van Dieman's Land
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1839 (broadside Bodleian Johnson Ballads 209)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal homicide transportation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 87-88, "The London 'Prentice Boy" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 58, "The London Prentice Boy" (1 text)
Roud #1501
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.26(184), "The Irish Transport," S. Russell (Birmingham), 1840-1851; also Firth b.34(260)=Harding B 11(3269), E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; Firth b.25(504), “The Irish Transport,” W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), c. 1860; 2806 c.16(58)=2806 c.16(58), unknown, n.d.
File: AnFa087

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