One of the versions of this ballad gives the name of Lord Delaware—
"In the Parliament House a great rout has been there,
Betwixt our good King and the Lord Delaware."
And it also gives the locality for sowing "hemp seed and flax seed" to "Lincolnshire." This same version speaks of the Duke of Devonshire as—
"Up sprung a Welch Lord, the brave Duke of Devonshire."
There can be no doubt, however, that Lord Delamere is the peer intended to be commemorated, and that Cheshire is the county to which he is made to refer, and to which indeed he belonged.
The Unconsionable Batchelors of Darby:
Or the Young Lasses Pawn'd by their Sweet-hearts, for a large Reckning, at Nottingham Goose-Fair, where poor Susan was forced to pay the Shot.
To the tune of To thee, to thee, &c.