One action was tried at the assizes, the offence being the applying to the beverage of a particular brewer the term of 'Surat beer.' Besides the song given above, several others were written on the subject.

One called 'Surat Warps,' and said to be the production of a Rossendale rhymester, (T.N., of Bacup,) appeared in Notes and Queries of June 3, 1865, (third series, vol.vii., p.
432,) and is there stated to be a great favourite amongst the old 'Deyghn Layrocks,' (Anglice, the 'Larks of Dean,' in the forest of Rossendale,) 'who sing it to one of the easy-going psalm-tunes with much gusto.' One verse runs thus:- " 'I look at th' yealds, and there they stick; I ne'er seen the like sin' I wur wick! What pity could befall a heart, To think about these hard-sized warps!' Another song, called 'The Surat Weyver,' was written by William Billington of Blackburn.

It is in the form of a lament by a body of Lancashire weavers, who declare that they had " 'Borne what mortal man could bear, Affoore they'd weave Surat.' But they had been compelled to weave it, though " 'Stransportashun's not as ill As weyvin rotten Su'.' The song concludes with the emphatic execration, " 'To hell wi' o' Surat!'" -- Note in "Lancashire Lyrics," vol.ii., edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A.
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