Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date 4 volumes. Volume I. Xxiii, 384 pages. Tissue-guarded frontispiece [some staining]. The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. 4 vols. Princeton UP, 1959-72. Bronson Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date. 2 vols. London, 1777 The Penguin Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World. Journal of the Brewery History Society. Some Evidence of Drinking Culture in Ale Ballads. John A R Compton- Middle English anagogical narrative poem William contemporary writings. His old college in Cambridge.14 Pepys 2-4. The majority of the first volume appears to contain works that date from the early to brought out a second volume which contained "Songs, more An- tique, and upon far Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with some of Modern Date, 4 Vols. Both of these Pepys volumes include historical events seen as divine interventions, some fables, a few classical or legendary stories, and patriotic ballads. Virtually all of the history ballads describe events purported to have happened prior to the English Civil War (1642-1651). 8 Due to the fact that most of these ballads come from manuscripts from the second half of the fifteenth century, some scholars have questioned this date of composition. However, this article follows the arguments developed William Entwistle, Diego Catal