Northumberland, & Durham.
Edited by John Bell, Jun.
Printed for John Bell, by M. Angus & Son, and sold by them,
and other Booksellers in Town.
| page | title | songwriter | tune | notes |
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| 1 | Front fly |
| 2 | Lines – Sent to the Editor and Printer |
| 3 | Preface |
| 4 | Verses on Northumberland Minstelry | H R | H R is Henry Robson |
| 5 | Weel may the Keel Row |
| 5 | The new Keel Row | T T | the old tune | T T is Thomas Thompson |
| 7 | Bonny Keel Laddie |
| 8 | The Little Pee Dee |
| 9 | Ma Canny Hinny |
| 10 | Dol Li A | A song famous in Newcastle about 1792, 1793 & 1794 |
| 11 | The Tyne | J. Gibson of Newcastle |
| 12 | Blackett's Field | J Shield of Newcastle | John Anderson My Jo |
| 14 | River Awa' |
| 15 | Britannia's Volunteers | The Newcastle Volunteers Quick March |
| 16 | John Diggons | J Stawpert of Newcastle | Old England's Roast Beef |
| 18 | Trafalgar's Battle | the same (assume J Stawpert) | Chapter of Kings |
| 19 | Chester Well | George Pickering, late of Newcastle |
| 21 | Newcastle Beer | John Cunningham |
| 23 | My Lord 'Size (or Newcastle in an uproar) | J Shield of Newcastle |
| 25 | Bob Cranky's 'Size Sunday | John Selkirk | set to music by Thomas Train of Gateshead |
| 27 | Bob Cranky's Complaint |
| 29 | The Bonny Geatsiders 1805 | Bob Cranky |
| 31 | Bob Cranky's Adieu | John Shield of Newcastle | on going with the Volunteer Association from Gateshead to Newcastle on permanent Duty |
| 33 | O No, My Love, No | John Shield of Newcastle |
| 34 | Delia's Answer |
| 35 | The Collier's Rant |
| 36 | Walker Pits | Of She Goes |
| 36 | The Bonny Pit Laddie |
| 37 | The Pitman's Revenge against Buonaparte |
| 38 | The Collier's Pay Week |
| 43 | The Quayside Shaver | At this time, on the Quay were people, mainly female, who carried out the trade of barber, out on the street |
| 45 | Swalwell Hopping | J S of Gateshead | Paddy's Wedding | J S is John Selkirk |
| 48 | The Sandgate Girl's Lamentation |
| 49 | A Curious Description of the City of Sandgate | "wrote" some years ago |
| 53 | The Crow's Nest |
| 56 | A Song – An Address to the Good People of Bur-Castle | published Dec 1791 |
| 57 | Sons of the Tyne – 1805 |
| 58 | Jesmond Mill | Phill Hodgson of Newcastle |
| 59 | Pardon Dene | published Sept 1776 with title of "Rosalinda" |
| 60 | Nanny of the Tyne | J M Wedderburn of Newcastle | set to music by J Aldridge Jnr of Newcastle |
| 61 | The Blue Bell of Gateshead | W B of Gateshead |
| 62 | The Newcastle Signs | Cecil Pitt | sung at Newcastle Theatre Royal by Mr Scrifen, 4 June 1806 |
| 63 | The Newcastle Bellman | sung at Newcastle Theatre Royal by Mr Noble 1803 |
| 66 | Oxygen Gas | John Shield of Newcastle | sung at Newcastle Theatre Royal |
| 67 | The Bards of the Tyne | Published in the Tyne Mercury under initials C P | Newcastle Beer | C P (which was Charles Purvis) |
| 68 | The Answer to the Foregoing | James Stawpert |
| 70 | The Raree Show Man | an election song 20 Sep 1780 |
| 73 | Barber's News (or Shields in an Uproar) | a new song | O' the Golden Days of Good Queen Bess |
| 77 | Song (on the flight of the young crows from Newcastle Exchange |
| 79 | A Rare Curiosity (or Crow's Nest in Gateshead) | a new song |
| 81 | The French Invasion | "published" 10 May 1794 |
| 84 | Blyth Camps (or The Girl I Left Behind Me) |
| 85 | Beaumont's Light Horse |
| 86 | A Song in Praise of the Keelman Volunteers | White Cockade |
| 87 | The Sons of the Tyne (or British Volunteers) | Hearts of Oak |
| 88 | Mary of the Tyne |
| 89 | Newcastle Fair – October 1811 (The Pitman a Drinking of Jacey) | J S | Drops of Brandy | J S is James Stawpert |
| 91 | The Newcastle Beauties | designed to be sung to the Harpsicord or Spinet &c |
| 94 | Song – on the Address of the Newcastle House of Lords on turning out Lord North and Mr Fox |
| 97 | The Address of Sir J Duncan and Co on the "Scale of Cross Bank" |
| 98 | Sketch details | one of Sir James Duncan's Bank Notes |
| 99 | An Elegy to the Memory of the Right Honourable Lord Ravensworth |
| 100 | Lines on the Death of John, Lord Delaval | M Harvey |
| 101 | The Wallsend Rifle Corps |
| 102 | Song – Written on the King's Birthday 1808 | Sons of the Tyne |
| 103 | The Token Monger – A Song | Erin go Bragh |
| 105 | The Following Dialogue in Bad Prose was Overheard by the Person who now Attempts it in Bad Verse | December 1811 |
| 106 | Footy Again The Wall | A song long sung by the Pitmen of Long Benton |
| 107 | The Battle of Otterburn | from an old MSS | battle fought 9 Aug 1388 |
| 111 | A Fytte |
| 116 | The Battle of Otterbourne |
| 118 | The Hunting of Chyviat |
| 122 | Fit The Second |
| 128 | The Hunting in Chevy Chase |
| 136 | An Old Song on the Battle of Flodden |
| 137 | The Flowers of the Forest (or Flodden Field) | battle fought 9 Sep 1513 |
| 142 | Verses on James IV of Scotland | who fell at the Battle of Flodden) |
| 143 | The Battle of Reid Squair | battle fought 7 July 1576 |
| 147 | Fair Mabel of Wallington |
| 150 | Verses (on the view of Roadley Castle, Wallington, etc.) |
| 152 | The Battle of Humbledown Hill | E W | battle fought 5 Aug 1791 |
| 156 | The Laidley Worm (of Spindleston Heugh) | by Duncan Frasier (this version by Robert Lambe, Vicar of Norham) | from an old MSS |
| 161 | The Fisher Laddie |
| 161 | The Kye's Come Home |
| 162 | Song – A Lamentable Ditty made upon the Death of a Worthy Gentlemen | A Delicate Scottish Tune | George Stoole who died c1610 |
| 166 | Epitaph on William Bell | Samuel Barras | Late a resident of Gateshead Fell |
| 166 | An Excellent Ballad on the Sickness, Death and Burial of Ecky's Mare |
| 171 | Stanzas – Addressed to Northumbria | Bothwell – 2 January 1807 |
| 173 | short bio of author | Thomas Whittle |
| 174 | Engraving of a Midford Galloway | spelt Mitford on page 173 |
| 175 | The Midford Galloway's Ramble | Thomas Whittle | Ranting, Roaring Willy |
| 180 | The Insipids (or The Mistress with her Multitude of Man Servants) | Thomas Whittle |
| 184 | Sawney Ogilby's Duel with his Wife | Thomas Whittle |
| 185 | Song – On William Carstairs, Schoolmaster | Thomas Whittle |
| 188 | Thomas Whittle, his Humorous Letter to Master Moody, the Razor-Setter | Thomas Whittle |
| 189 | The Little Priest of Felton |
| 190 | The Felton Garland | Maggy Lauder |
| 195 | From the Swains of Felton to the Shepherds of Lanthernside, Northumberland 1787 | General F—r---'s March |
| 196 | On the Departure of Mr Grey of Felton |
| 197 | Carr of Etal |
| 198 | Callaly Castle, seat of the Claverings |
| 200 | Bedlington Tragedy – A Fragment |
| 202 | Hotspur, A Ballad – In the Manner of the Ancient Minstrels | Mr William Richardson |
| 206 | Legend of Sewen Shields Castle |
| 209 | An Old Northumbrian Ballad | about the Lead-Miners of Alston Moor |
| 210 | From a Tombstone in Haltwhistle Church Yard |
| 211 | Lines – written at an Inn on the Banks of the Allan | George Pickering | romantic part of Northumberland |
| 211 | Lucy Gray of Allendale |
| 212 | Haltwhistle Fair |
| 214 | Anna of the Tyne |
| 215 | The Tyne | Henry Robson |
| 215 | short bio of author | Henry Robson |
| 216 | The Spring | Henry Robson | Written the beginning of May 1809 |
| 217 | The Banks of the Tyne | James Wilson |
| 217 | short bio of author | James Wilson |
| 218 | Ode – "Addressed to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart. | James Wilson | was "wrote" by the author on the very day the building of Hexham Bridge was undertaken |
| 219 | A Few Lines on Laying the Foundation Stone of Hexham Bridge | James Wilson |
| 220 | A Song by Mr James Wilson of Cawsey Park | James Wilson | on Mr Coughan and family, leaving Hebron Hill |
| 221 | Hobby Elliott | maybe James Robson |
| 221 | short bio of author | James Robson |
| 222 | The Rising of the Clans in 1715 |
| 223 | On the First Rebellion – 1715 |
| 225 | A Fragment of a Song on the Lord of Derwentwater |
| 225 | Verses on a perspective view of Dilston Hall | home of the Lord of Derwentwater |
| 227 | Hexham Wood |
| 228 | The Loyal Hexham Volunteers | Jasper Potts | a new song |
| 229 | The Jolly Parson |
| 231 | The Cockle Park Ewe's Ramble – Part I | John of Badenyon |
| 233 | Part II |
| 234 | Part III |
| 236 | Song – 5 July 1810 | J C |
| 237 | The Ploughman |
| 237 | The Flower of Rothbury Forest |
| 238 | The Piper of Capheaton |
| 239 | Mary Gamal, the Vicar of Kirkwhelpington's Daughter | is gone off with Nichol Clark, his Servant Man |
| 240 | Song – To Buy |
| 241 | The Water of Tyne |
| 241 | Andrew Carr |
| 242 | Song – Eppie |
| 242 | Lines – on John Thompson, who was hanged on Town Moor for Horse Stealing | ---- Ogle, Schoolmaster of Gateshead |
| 242 | The Pitman | ---- Ogle, Schoolmaster of Gateshead |
| 243 | A Song about the Conclusion of the Hunt season of the Forest Hunt, Newcastle 1786 |
| 245 | Lord Framlington Fair (or Tryst) |
| 247 | Go All to Coquet and Woo |
| 248 | The Fractious Farmer – A Song 1792 |
| 250 | Satyr Upon Women | James Robson |
| 250 | short bio of author | James Robson |
| 251 | Tweed Side |
| 252 | A Song – Pasted on the Walls and scattered about the Town of Rothbury, several years ago |
| 253 | Answer – The following answer was handed about at Berwick upon Tweed | and the Neighbouring Villages |
| 256 | Song – (maybe called My Eppie) |
| 257 | Little Billy |
| 257 | Sair Fail'd Hinny |
| 258 | The Hare Skin | George Knight, Shoemaker | Have you heard of a frolicsome ditty |
| 261 | Limbo | George Knight, Shoemaker | On a time I was great, now little I'm grown |
| 262 | A New Song – for the Year 1764 | William Sutton (songwriter) |
| 264 | Stockton's Commendation | Sir John Fenwick's The flower amang them |
| 265 | The New Way of Stockton's Commendation | Benjamin Poye L.L.D. Archdeacon of Durham | to the old tune | was actually Benjamin Pye 1791–1808 |
| 267 | Hark to Winchester (or The Yorkshire Volunteer's Farewell to the good folks of Stockton) | Push about the Jorum |
| 269 | Stockton's Commendation – 2 |
| 271 | The BarnardCastle Tragedy | Constant Anthony |
| 274 | A Song in Praise of the Durham Militia | The Lillies of France |
| 275 | The Lass of Cockerton | Low down in the broom |
| 276 | Rookhope Ryde – | A Durham border song, composed 1569 |
| 281 | The Sedgefield Frolic |
| 283 | Bobby Shaftoe |
| 283 | The Pleasures of Sunderland |
| 284 | The Frolicsome Old Women of Sunderland (or the disappointed young maids) | They'll marry tho' threescore and ten |
| 285 | Sunderland Bridge | by M W of North Shields |
| 285 | Elsie Marley | to its own tune | An Alewife of Picktree near Chester-le-Street |
| 287 | Chester Lads Forever |
| 288 | Lumley Leads to Glory |
| 288 | Chester Volunteers | There's na luck about the house |
| 290 | The Durham Volunteers |
| 291 | King James I – On his Visit to Durham | on Good Friday 1617 |
| 292 | Durham Old Women |
| 292 | Epitaph on John Simpson, Hamsterley, Woolcomber | Isaac Garner |
| 293 | Ode – To the River Derwent |
| 294 | The Hexhamshire Lass |
| 296 | The Northumbrian's Sigh for his Native Country |
| 296 | A You A, Hinny Burd |
| 297 | Up the Raw |
| 298 | Broom Busoms |
| 299 | Extra Verses to the Foregoing | Added by "Blind Willy" |
| 300 | The Waggoner |
| 300 | Brandling and Ridley |
| 301 | My Laddie |
| 301 | Sandgate Lassie's Lament | Henry Robson | Bonny Pit Laddie |
| 302 | The Invitation |
| 304 | A Song at the opening of Jarrow Colliery | written & sung by H F H | Opened on 26 Sep 1805 |
| 306 | A South Shields Song – of the Sailors |
| 306 | A North Shields Song |
| 307 | Monkseaton Races – 1 July 1812 | by a Spectator |
| 309 | The Alarm (or Lord Fauconberg's March) |
| 310 | The Patriot Volunteers (or Loyalty Display'd) | by Clarinda |
| 312 | short bio of Silly Billy |
| 312 | Cull, Alias Silly Billy | J S | Published in Newcastle Chronicle on 28 Aug 1802 |
| 313 | another short bio of Silly Billy |
| 314 | Canny Newcassel | T T of Newcastle | T T is Thomas Thompson |
| 316 | Croakum Redivivus | A Crow's account on her return to Newcastle 1812 |
| 319 | unnamed – but about the "Lost" Sheriff's Gown | A Verse about the gown stolen from the Town's Court |
| 320 | The Antigallican Privateer |
| 321 | a New Song on the Opening of Jarrow Colliery | Opened in 1803 |
| 322 | The Peacock and the Hen |
| 322 | The Tyne – A Fragment | J L |
| 323 | Contents |
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| From the Press of M Angus and Son, Newcastle |
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