[7] The above has no date nor printer’s name. That it is inserted here is owing to the kindness of a gentleman who has contributed it from his valuable Collection of old Ballads,――Frederic Ouvry, Esq., President of the Society of Antiquaries. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET Transcriber’s Note: This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Initial drop capital letters at the beginning of chapters are indicated [Illustration: Drop-X]. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which the corresponding anchor occurs. Page headers were converted to sidenotes. Where the text continued for more than a full page, in-line sidenotes were used, annotated within ◆ mark-up. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. The following items were changed: line 1677 - usual for a Jabobite [Jacobite] line 3052 - the Whig ‘Eveninig [Evening] Post,’ line 6641 - who appeared at Dumblane [Dunblane] line 10478 - urged that the [she] would be subject