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References
- ↑ English Broadside Ballad Archive Neptune's Raging Fury
- ↑ Christopher Lloyd, The British Seaman 1200-1860: A Social Survey. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1970 (pg. 56).
- ↑ Patricia Fumerton, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2005 (pg. 147)
- ↑ Gunda Windmüller, Rushing Into the Floods: Staging the Sea in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Bonn, Germany: Bonn University Press, 2012 (pgs. 146-7).
- ↑ Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990 (pg. 169).
- ↑ For example, Joseph Ritson and Thomas Park, A Select Collection of English Songs, with their Original Airs: And a Historical Essay of the Origin and Progress of National Song. London: Harding and Wright, 1813.
- ↑ Kirsty Reid, "Shipwrecks on the Streets: Maritime Disaster and the Broadside Ballad Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland." Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations From Antiquity. Ed. Carl Thompson. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.