Wood, 401, fol. 1 b; Douce, I, fol. I b; Euing, Nos 331, 332; Pepys, I, 76, No 36, I, 506, No 260; Crawford, No 648; Roxburghe, I, 504, printed by Chappell, III, 210.
[77] This is as old as Asser; Annales, Wise, Oxford, 1722, p. 30.
[78] ‘King James and the Tinker,’ Douce, III, fol. 126 b, fol. 136 b; no printer, place, or date. ‘King James the First and the Tinker,’ Garland of Mirth and Delight; no place or date. The same: ‘King James and the Tinkler,’ Dixon, in Richardson’s Borderer’s Table-Book, VII, 7, and Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs, etc., p. 109, Percy Society, vol. xvii. ‘James V. and the Tinker,’ A. Small, Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife, p. 283. ‘King James the First and the fortunate Tinker,’ The King and Tinker’s Garland, containing three excellent songs, Sheffield, 1745, Halliwell, Notices of Fugitive Tracts, p. 29, No 36, Percy Society, vol. xxix (not seen). ‘The King and the Tinkler,’ a rifacimento, in Maidment’s Scotish Ballads and Songs, 1859, p. 92; Kinloch MSS, V, 293.
[79] ‘The Loyal Forrister, or Royal Pastime,’ printed for C. Bates in Pye-Corner (c. 1696), Euing, No 156. ‘King William and his Forrester,’ no imprint, c. 1690-94, Crawford, No 1421. ‘The King and the Forrester,’ Roxburghe, III, 790, Ebsworth VII, 763 (Bow Church-Yard?). ‘King William going a hunting,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 101, from tradition.
[80] ‘The Royal Frolick,’ etc., Pepys, II, 313, in Ebsworth’s Roxburghe Ballads, VII, 756.
[81] ‘The Royal Recreation, or A Second Part, containing the passages between the Farmer and his Wife at their return home, where they found the King with his Noble Retinue.’ Pepys, II, 326, Roxburghe, II, 397, Ebsworth, VII, 761.
[82] ‘The King and the Cobler.’ Charles Dennison, at the sign of the Stationers’ Arms within Aldgate (1685-89, Chappell). Wood, 254, xi; Pepys, Penny Merriments, vol. i; Halliwell, Notices of Popular Histories, p. 48, Percy Society, vol. xxiii, Newcastle, without date; Manchester Penny Histories (last quarter of the eighteenth century), Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 482, No 6.
[83] Kulda, Moravské n. pohádky, etc., 1874, I, 56, No 20, in Wenzig, Westslavischer Märchenschatz, p. 179.
Tonndorf, in the dissertation already cited, remarks with truth that meetings of king and subject (or the like) are quite regularly a sequel or incident of a hunt, and refers to Grimms, Deutsche Sagen, Nos 550, 563, 566; Cardonne, Mélanges de Littérature orientale, pp. 68, 87, 110; Grässe, Gesta Romanorum, cap. 56, I, 87, Anhang, No 16, II, 198; Othonis Melandri Ioco-Seria, No 338, p. 292, ed. Frankfort, 1617. In four of these cases the noble person loses his way, and has to seek hospitality. In Deutsche Sagen, No 566, we have a charcoal-burner who relieves a prince’s hunger and is afterwards entertained at the prince’s table.