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THE

EARLY NAVAL BALLADS

OF

ENGLAND.

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ.

F.R.S. F.S.A. F.R.A.S.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETIES OF
EDINBURGH, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, oxford,
PARIS, COPENHAGEN, ETC. ETC.

Queen of the sea,

All hail to thee!

Here shall my home for ever be.

Planché.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,

BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

MDCCCXLI.

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PREFACE

IN offering the accompanying little volume to the members of the Percy Society, the Editor is anxious to avail himself of the introductory leaves to apologise for the incompleteness of its chronological arrangement—an error which may perhaps be considered by no means a light one by the exact antiquary. The fact is that a few curious ballads were discovered after the first sheets were worked off, which properly ought to have been included in them; and the necessity of inserting these out of their proper places induced the Editor, in preference to forming an appendix, to follow no order whatever in the subsequent part, and thus to preclude the possibility of a casual reference to the book being interrupted by any specified order of the dates of the several ballads.

Of the collection itself it is not necessary to speak, further than to remark that instead of a selection of the best ballads on naval subjects, which would have been comprised in a very brief

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