1] The Roud Folk Music Index hosted by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Libary at https://www.vwml.org/

2] Wikipedia (1)

3] Mainly Norfolk (1)

4] Mudcat Forums (1)

5] “116 - Cruel Mother, The.” The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, by Stephen Roud and Julia C. Bishop, Penguin Books, 2014.

6] “History, Symbol, and Meaning in ‘The Cruel Mother’” by David Atkinson

7] “Woman Under the English Law: From the Landing of the Saxons to the Present Time"  By Arthur Rackham Cleveland

8] "Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity” By Marilyn Francus

9] Internet Sacred Texts Archive (1)

10] The Contemplator (1)

1`] "Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts," by David Herd

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Unfortunately all my research on this episode was lost in a computer crash in the mid 2010's, so I will try to revisit and dig them all up, but these are what I could find. This is also why the song list above is incomplete.