The second part of the ballad was licensed in 1611: the first part is not entered, but the tune is that of a ballad registered in March 1611 (Arber, _Stationers’ Register_, iii. 206, b.). The ballad may refer to an historical event. ‘In 1596 letters of reprisal were granted to Diggory Piper in the Sweepstakes of London.... He was authorised to attack Spanish and Portuguese ships; he commenced with some Flemings, continued with two French traders, and finished with a Dane having goods worth 3,000_l._ on board.’ (Oppenheim, _The Administration of the Royal Navy_, p. 180). P. 25. =The Seaman’s Song of Captain Ward.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 784. Date of first publication July 3, 1609 (Arber, _Stationers’ Register_, iii. 185, b.). P. 27. =The Song of Danseker.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 423. Same date as the preceding. P. 30. =Captain Ward and the Rainbow.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 426. The earliest printed editions of this ballad belong to the latter half of the seventeenth century. It was reprinted as a broadside by J. Pitts in the early part of the nineteenth century. See Logan, _A Pedlar’s Pack_, p. 7. The ballad is possibly a legendary version of Rainborow’s expedition to Sallee in 1637. Essex is celebrated as a naval commander in _Queen Elizabeth’s Champion_ (_Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 405). P. 31. =The Lamentable Cries of 1,500 Christians.= Text from a MS. in the Bodleian Library (_MS. Rawlinson Poet._ clii. f. 36). P. 34. =The Honour of Bristol.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 429. A later version, entitled _The Jovial Mariner’s Resolution_, is contained in a chapbook, called _The Jovial Mariner’s Garland_, in the Bodleian Library (Douce P.P. 183). P. 36. =Neptune to England.= Printed by Halliwell, _Early Naval Ballads_, p. 68, from _MS. Sloane_, 1514, f. 40, in the British Museum. P. 36. =On His Majesties Fleet.= Text from _Add. MS._ 29, 975, f. 109, in the British Museum. P. 37. =Upon the Great Ship.= Text from _MS. Rawlinson Poet._ clx. f. 164, in the Bodleian Library. A poem on the same subject in Latin and English is printed in Sir Richard Fanshawe’s _Pastor Fido and Poems_, ed. 1676, p. 228. P. 40. =Sailors for my Money.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 797. Date somewhere between 1630 and 1655. Mr. Ebsworth dates it 1635. On its author, Martin Parker, see _Dictionary of National Biography_, xliii. 242. P. 42. =The Jovial Mariner.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 369. Attributed by Mr. Ebsworth to John Playford and dated circa 1670-84. P. 45. =Neptune’s Raging Fury.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 432. Written about 1635, says Mr. Ebsworth. For the tune see Chappell’s _Old English Popular Music_, ed. Wooldridge, ii. 47.