and the Tinker," "King Henry VII. and
the Cobbler," with a dozen more. "The Tanner of Tamworth" in another,
perhaps older, form, as "The King and the Barker," was printed by
Joseph Ritson in his "Ancient Popular Poetry."
"Sir Patrick Spens" was first published by Percy in his "Reliques of
Ancient English Poetry" (1757). It was given by Sir Walter Scott in
his "Minstrelsy of the Border," and with more detail by Peter Buchan
in his "Ancient Ballads of the North." Buchan took it from an old
blind ballad-singer who had recited it for fifty years, and learnt it
in youth from another very old man. The ballad is upon an event in
Scottish history of the thirteenth century, touching marriage of a
Margaret, daughter of the King of Scotland, to Haningo, son of the
King of Norway. The perils of a winter sea-passage in ships of the
olden time were recognised by an Act of the reign of James III. of
Scotland, prohibiting all navigation "frae the feast of St. Simon's
Day and Jude unto the feast of the Purification of our Lady, called
Candlemas."
"Edom o' Gordon" was first printed at Glasgow by Robert and Andrew
Foulis in 1755.
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