Bold General Wolfe / Taking Of General Wolfe Words English REFERENCES
Baring Gould
Songs and Ballads of the West MSS CXLVIII
Collected from J peake Liskeard
Garland of country songs p14
" Popular throught England. Words vary . . .but melody hardly varies atall ...... Wolfe fell .... Quebec Sept 13 1759. Bold General Wolfe appears asCatnach Ballad also Fortey and Such and Co" .
Davies Gilbert
RIC Library box of Music - Davies Gilbert Eastbourne 1830 - photcopy, no further information except that it was collected from John Tonkin (of St Erth aged 86) as Belle Isle.
There are a large number of references to this
song in the in Vaughan Williams memorial library)