Merchant's Daughter of Bristol, The

DESCRIPTION: A merchant's daughter loves a "gallant youth." Her parents ship him overseas. She takes ship to follow him to Padua. The parents follow her. She finds him condemned to die for religion. She prepares to die with him, but the authorities relent
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1725 (A Collection of Old Ballads); what is probably this piece was registered in 1595
KEYWORDS: love sailor father mother brother sister ship cross-dressing reunion death execution religious reprieve
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume III, pp. 374-384, 'Maudline" (1 text)
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 216-224, "The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow" (1 text)
Ashton-RealSailorSongs, #67 insert, "The Bristol Garland; or the Merchant's Daughter of Bristol" (1 text)
MANUSCRIPT: {MSPercyFolio}, The Percy Folio, London, British Library MS. Additional 27879, page 483
ST BeCo216 (Partial)
Roud #892
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Fair Maudlin
NOTES [107 words]: Hyder E. Rollins, An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557-1709) In the Register of the Company of Stationers of London, 1924 (I use the 1967 Tradition Press reprint with a new Foreword by Leslie Shepard), pp. 148-149, lists the following Stationer's Register entries for what is presumably this ballad:
#1707, "the first parte of the merchauntes daughter of Bristoll," Thomas Creede, registered February 24, 1595
# 1709, The merchants daughter of Bristoll," printer not listed, registered March 1, 1675.
There is also
#1708, "the second parte of the mercchantes Daughter of Bristowe," Thomas Creede, registered March 17, 1595. - RBW
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