333.] [Footnote 35: In 1830.] [Footnote 36: Ritson's principal works were as follows: _Select Collection of English Songs_ (1783); _Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry from Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies_ (1791); _Ancient Songs from the Time of Henry III.

to the Revolution_ (1792); _Scottish Songs with the Genuine Music_ (1794); _Poems by Laurence Minot_ (1795); _Robin Hood Poems_ (1795); _Ancient English Metrical Romances_ (1802).] [Footnote 37: Ellis published his _Specimens of the Early English Poets_ in 1790, and it was reissued with the addition of the Introduction in 1801 and 1803.

He edited also Way's translations of the Fabliaux (1796), and _Specimens of Early English Romances in Metre_ (1805).] [Footnote 38: Review of Dunlop's _History of Fiction_, July, 1815.] [Footnote 39: The _Magnum Opus_ of Robert Surtees was his _History of Durham_, published 1816-1840.] [Footnote 40: Douce published _Illustrations of Shakespeare_ in 1807.
Later he edited _Arnold's Chronicle; Judicium, a Pageant_; and a metrical _Life of St.Robert_.The two latter, which appeared in 1822 and 1824, were done for the Roxburghe Club.

In 1824 he also wrote some notes for Warton's _History of English Poetry_.] [Footnote 41: _Age of Wordsworth_, p.

39.] [Footnote 42: A number of volumes containing old ballads together with modern imitations had been published both before and after the appearance of Percy's _Reliques_, but Ritson's collections were the first, except Percy's, to treat the material in a scholarly way.] [Footnote 43: The discussion centered upon the social and literary position of minstrels.