[7] From Songs of the West: Traditional Songs and Ballads of the West of England. Collected by S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. London: Methuen & Co. 1889.
[8] The Flying Horse is a peculiarly dangerous throw over the head, and usually breaks or severely injures the spine of the wrestler thus thrown.
[9] From Songs of the West, by S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. Methuen & Co.: 1889.
Transcriber's Notes
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.
Some inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been left as printed.
- p 18. "seventeeth century" to "seventeenth century."
- p. 46. "old and risty". may be a typo for rusty. Left as printed.
- p. 71. "plate glass" to "plate-glass"
- p. 161. "Mrs Chowne" to "Mrs. Chowne"
- p. 184. "peform" to "perform"
- p. 186. "brauls" to "braules"
- p. 187. "Duke of Monmoth" to "Duke of Monmouth"
- p. 228. The decade of the marriage date of AB is unclear in this edition, but visible as 1638 in an alternate source.
- p. 312. "Wipe you shoes" to "Wipe your shoes"
- End pages (publications). "finger's en" to "finger's end"
- In the text both teetotaller and teetotaler used and have been left as printed.