a. Wood, 401, fol. 44, Bodleian Library.
b. Douce, I, 109, Bodleian Library.
c. Roxburghe, I, 176, 177; Chappell, Roxburghe Ballads, I, 529.
The ballad is also in the Pepys collection, II, 129, No 113, and there are two copies in the Euing collection, Nos 273, 274.
The following entries occur in the Stationers’ Registers:
1564, September or October, William Greffeth licenced to print a book intituled ‘The story of Kynge Henry the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe.’ Arber, I, 264.
1586, August 1, Edward White, ‘A merie songe of the Kinge and the Tanner.’ Arber, II, 451.[60]
1600, October 6, William White, by the consent of Widow Danter, ‘A merye, pleasant and delectable history betwene Kinge Edward the IIIJth and a Tanner of Tamworthe,’ and, by like consent of the Widow Danter, “the bal[l]ad of the same matter that was printed by her husband John Danter.” Arber, III, 173.
1615, December 9, John Trundle, for a ballad of ‘The King and the Tanner.’ Arber, III, 579.