Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Extracts From the Registers of the Stationers' Company of Works Entered for Publication Between the Years 1570 and 1587, Vol. 2
These, and many more, are in the same peculiar handwriting; but no fewer than between eighty and ninety ballads are copied into various parts of the manuscript by a different, but still by an early scribe, which, we presume, were derived from broadsides, at that period becoming scarce, and most of them since entirely lost: a few are, however, still in existence, and serve, in some degree, to establish the origin of the rest. About twenty of them are inserted in our first volume, and as many more will be found in that now in the hands of the reader. Still, there remain between forty and fifty which we have not quoted; and in order that the subjects of the whole collection may be seen at once, we give the titles seriatim, as they stand in our manuscript.
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