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Abby Sale's Happy Archive: 31st of July
Sale, a regular poster to uk.music.folk and rec.music.folk, explains the background of Child ballad 155 ("Little Sir Hugh"). Hugh disappeared on 31 July, 1255, and was found dead, in a well, nearly a month later.
http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/happy/07_jul/0731s.htm
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Chaucer's Prioress
The Prioress's Tale is not wholly original: it is an even more bloodthirsty retelling of the story of Little Hugh of Lincoln.
http://www.gloriana.nu/prioress.html
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Hugh or Little Hugh of Lincoln
Short article by Katherine I. Rabinstein tries to get to the true story behind the gruesome legend.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0827.htm#hugh
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Hugh the Little
Profile. Says that his cultus has been suppressed.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainth22.htm
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Little Sir Hugh
Lyrics for one of eighteen versions of this ballad collected by Child, MIDI file, background information on the story as told in the Annals of Waverly.
http://www.contemplator.com/folk5/sirhugh.html
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Little Sir Hugh (Child #155)
Ballad based on the story of "Little St. Hugh."
http://www.dnaco.net/~aleed/ballad/hugh.html
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Of the cruel treatment of the Jews for having crucified a boy
The story of Young Hugh of Lincoln, as told in Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/310/texts/paris1255.htm
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St. Hugh
Article on Little St. Hugh of Lincoln, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07515b.htm
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The mystery of St Hugh's Well, Lincoln
R.W. Morrell bought a 1910 postcard which allegedly depicted the well where Hugh's body was found. The building still stands, but the well shown on the postcard was a hoax.
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/sthugh.htm
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