"The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington" is a narrative ballad. It appears in F. J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads as #105 and the Roud Folk Song Index as #483. The earliest known text was published (as a broadside) by Phillip Brooksby between 1683 and 1696. It was printed in Percy’s Reliques of English Poetry (1765), Bertrand Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, The News Chronicle Songbook (c.1930) and Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917). It was recorded by Hermes Nye on Anglo-American Ballads (1952), Richard Dyer-Bennet on Dyer-Bennett Vol. 2 (1956), Tony Wales on Sussex Folk Songs and Ballads (1957), Paul Clayton on Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World (1956), Jon Rennard on Brimbledon Fair (1970), Tania Opland and Mike Freeman on Choice Fare (2000), Daisy Chapman on Ythanside (2000), Owen Brannigan and Elizabeth Harwood on Heart of Oak: Songs and Folksongs of the British Isles (2004), Tanya Brody on Not Your Average...Anything (2004), Laura Cortese on Hush (2004), Bob Lewis on Drive Sorrows Away (2008) and by many others.