Tom Potts

"Young Beichan", also known as "Lord Bateman", "Lord Bakeman", "Lord Baker", "Young Bicham" and "Young Bekie", is a traditional folk ballad categorised as Child ballad 53 and Roud 40. The earliest versions date from the late 18th century, but it is probably older, with clear parallels in ballads and folktales across Europe. The song was popular as a broadside ballad in the nineteenth century, and survived well into the twentieth century in the oral tradition in rural areas of most English speaking parts of the world, particularly in England, Scotland and Appalachia.

"The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea" is an English-language folk song. 'Machrel' is an archaic spelling of 'mackerel', the type of fish, and title can be spelled either way.

Fair Annie is a traditional folk ballad, existing in several variants.

"Prince Robert", also known as "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn" or "Harry Saunders", is a traditional English-language murder ballad, likely originating in Scotland.

The Gay Goshawk is a traditional English-language folk ballad.

The Laird o Drum is an English-language folk song, originating in Scotland. Francis James Child collected six versions, labeled A to F, all based on Alexander Irvine's courtship of and marriage to Margaret Coutts, his second wife. Though the events depicted in the ballad took place in the late 1600s, the earliest version of the ballad dates back to the early 1800s.

Fair Janet is an English-language folk ballad.

The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward, sometimes simply The Lord of Lorn, is an English-language folk ballad. The ballad was first entered in the Stationers' Register in 1580, with a note that it is sung to the tune of Greensleeves.

"Gil Brenton" is an English-language folk song, existing in several variants.

"The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31. Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. The loathly lady episode itself dates at least back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. Unlike most of the Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian "King Arthur and King Cornwall" and "The Boy and the Mantle", "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is not a folk ballad but a song for professional minstrels.

Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet is an English-language folk song.

"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.

"The Cruel Brother" is a folk song.

Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington is a tradtional English-language folk ballad. Francis James Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston".

Richie Story, also called The Earl of Weymss, is an English-language folk song existing in several variants. According to Francis James Child, the ballad is based on historical events that happened around 1673.

Lord Thomas Stuart is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad.

Lord William, Sweet William or Lord Lundy is a traditional Scottish folk ballad telling how a pair of lovers, William and Janet, outwit her father, her bethrothed and the priest in order to marry one other.