What Henry Ramsden Bramley song is listed as number 394 in the Roxburghe Collection?
Henry Ramsden Bramley Henry Ramsden Bramley (4 June 1833 – February 1917) was an English clergyman and hymnologist perhaps best known for his collaborations with the composer Sir John Stainer. Along with earlier 19th-century composers such as William Sandys and John Mason Neale, Bramley and Stainer are credited with fuelling a Victorian revival of Christmas carols with their 1871 publication of Christmas Carols, New and Old, which popularised carols such as "The First Nowell", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and "The Holly and the Ivy".
The Three Ravens "The Three Ravens" (Child 26, Roud 5) is an English folk ballad, printed in the song book "Melismata" compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but it is perhaps older than that. Newer versions (with different music) were recorded right up through the 19th century. Francis James Child recorded several versions in his Child Ballads (catalogued as number 26). A Scottish ballad called "Twa Corbies" ("Two Ravens" or "Two Crows") has lyrics based on Three Ravens with a similar general story, but with a darker twist. Twa Corbies is sung to a different melody.