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The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The,an old ballad included in Percy's Reliques . A squire's son loves the bailiff's daughter of Islington (probably the place of that name in Norfolk), but his friends send him to London bound as an apprentice. After seven years the lovers meet again and are united.
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