Recordings & Info 247. Lady Elspat
[There are no recordings listed in Child Collection Index.]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 4023: Lady Elspat (3 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Unknown
Traditional Ballad Index: Lady Elspat [Child 247]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Elspat and Sweet William plan a tryst, but Elspat's brother's page reports to her mother. The mother takes the boy to court on a charge of robbery. The judge concludes that his only crime is being relatively poor, and frees William to wed Elspat
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1783/1799 (GordonBrown/Rieuwerts)
KEYWORDS: courting trial reprieve
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 247, "Lady Elspat" (1 text, 2 tunes, but Bronson says the tunes are not proper to the text)
Bronson 247, "Lady Elspat" (2 versions)
GordonBrown/Rieuwerts, pp. 132-135 "Lady Elspat" (2 parallel texts plus a photo of the badly-transcribed tune; also a reconstructed tune on p. 270 and an alternate tune on p. 271)
OBB 86, "Lady Elspat" (1 text)
Roud #4023
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial)" [Laws M10] (plot)
cf. "Mary Acklin (The Squire's Young Daughter)" [Laws M16] (plot)