

Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





                              BROWN WILLIAM
                         THE POWER OF THE HARP
                                   AND
                              OTHER BALLADS


                                    BY
                              GEORGE BORROW

                                 LONDON:
                     PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

                                   1913

               _Copyright in the United States of America_
           _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_.




BROWN WILLIAM


_This ballad was written in consequence of the execution of William
Christian_, _generally called William Donn_, _or Brown William_, _from
the darkness of his complexion_, _who was shot at Hango Hill_, _near
Castletown_, _in the Isle of Man_, _shortly