HAM/05/32/05	The Broomfield Wager
HAM-02-227.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-05-023.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-024.gif	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-227.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[On a page with "12" printed in the top left corner:]
It is almost impossible to reproduce the time effect here. After hearing song twice I think the best solution is as under
[here, Hammond takes a leader line down though a scratched-out attempt at the tune. Below this attempt is the following:]
The second time Russell sang the song the ending of the repeat was identical with that of fourth line, and the triplet in bar 6 appeared also in the repeat
[On the title line of the tune is:]
500               'The Merry Broomfield'         Mrs Russell of Upwey
[The tune has a single line of words beneath the stave - these are reproduced in the ABC transcription. Beneath the tune is:]
Words DVII. p 61
Another tune 371
[Between the staves is the following (bar lines inserted by PJH):]
It's | of a knight in the | North coun-try , He | court-ed a la-dy |
gay. As | they were a-riding in the | mer-ry green-wood, A | wa-ger
he did | lay, As | they were a-ri-ding in the | mer-ry green-wood, A |
wa-ger | he did | lay.

HAM-01-680.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
[on leaf opposite the words:]
For more words see D VI p.122
[above the title line:]
T.500	(371 also)	D.773
[title line:]
Fragt. of Merry Broomfield	Russell
Why hadn't thou awaked me, my little footboy
That I might have had my will
 / And all the little birds of the merry green field (or wood)
<
 \ Of me should have had their fill

HAM-05-023.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
[Purslow copies the comments mentioned above onto the tune slip, 
and inserts the verse beneath the staves.]

HAM-05-024.gif	Purslow's transcription - words

THE BROOMFIELD WAGER.
[sticky label] D773
Note-book D.VII. p.61. Mrs. Marina Russell,
Upwey, Dorset.
Why hadn't thou awaked me, my little foot boy,
That I might have had my will,
(And all the little birds of the merry green field, (or wood)
( Of me should have had their fill.

Mrs. Russell knew only this fragment of words.   F.E.P.
[and then in Purslow's hand]
See also verse noted under music. FEP

[This material prepared by P J Headford, Oct 2010]