The song gives an account of a fight between John " Steeleye " Span and John Bowlin, neither of whom are proven to have been real people.

He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span, was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.

The song has also been recorded by Fire + Ice, Gae Bolg, Bert Jansch, The John Renbourn Group, Pentangle, Finest Kind, Martin Carthy, Roy Bailey, Martyn Bates in collaboration with Max Eastley, the Watersons, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh, Fairport Convention, The Minstrels of Mayhem, Galley Beggar, Donnybrook Fair, Oysterband, Frank Black, Chris Wood, Quadriga Consort, Maddy Prior, Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Tim van Eyken, Barry Dransfield and many other performers.

Plunket was married to Catherine MacCausland, daughter of John MacCausland ( Irish parliamentarian ) of Strabane and Elizabeth Span, daughter of Rev.

" The Three Ravens " or " Twa Corbies " have been performed and recorded by artists such as Heather Alexander, Annwn, A Chorus of Two, Bishi, Boiled in Lead, Scott Boswell, Clam Chowder, The Corries, Alfred Deller, The Duplets, Frances Faye, Fiddler's Dram, Ray & Archie Fisher, John Fleagle and Ewan MacColl, John Harle, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bert Jansch, Joel Cohen, Kalin Sivov, Andrew King, Marie Little, Malinky, Old Blind Dogs, Omnia, Kate Price, Schelmish, Sol Invictus, Sonne Hagal, Sequester, Steeleye Span, Andreas Scholl, Hamish Imlach, Richard Thompson, Ariella Uliano, Diana Obscura, Terre di mezzo, Kenneth McKellar, Custer LaRue and the Baltimore Consort, Merry Wives of Windsor, Sportive Tricks, countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Astral Weeks.

The Folk Song Club is a volunteer run, non-profit organisation which has featured many notable singers and musicians including Eric Bogle, Martin Carthy, Fairport Convention, Vin Garbutt, Bill Jones, John Kirkpatrick, Lindisfarne, Ralph McTell, Show of Hands, Steeleye Span and Richard Thompson.

* 1559 John Plunket

* 1562 John Plunket, by a new patent

Born in Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket and Charlotte Bushe.

Plunket was the third son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, second son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Katherine Frances Plunket, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

* John Biggar, The Andes: A Guide For Climbers, 3rd.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.

* D. Rogers Computational Chemistry Using the PC, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons ( 2003 ).

** John II, 8th Duke of Braganza and 3rd Duke of Barcelos.

*" The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, 3rd Edition ", Donald Attwater and Catherine Rachel John, New York: Peguin Putnam Inc., 1995, ISBN 0-14-051312-4

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

* Mitchell, James K. & Soga, K. ( 2005 ), Fundamentals of Soil Behavior 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-46302-3

and Mesri, G. ( 1996 ), Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-08658-4

Other notable early manuscripts of John include Papyrus 66 and Papyrus 75, in consequence of which a substantially complete text of the Gospel of John exists from the beginning of the 3rd century at the latest.

In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

By the early 3rd century, Origen of Alexandria may have been using the same 27 books as in the modern New Testament, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of Hebrews, James, II Peter, II and III John, and Revelation Such works that were sometimes " spoken against " were called Antilegomena.

* Lisa Hearst Hagerman, granddaughter of 3rd son John Randolph Hearst Sr.

* 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat ; 3rd Governor of California ; and former United States Envoy to Chile ( d. 1871 )

* 1944 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian politician, 3rd President of Ghana ( d. 2012 )

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

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* 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1919 )

* Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare ( b. 1947 )

Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by noble lords, who were among the most powerful men in England: the Earl of Orford, The Baron of Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury and Sir John Somers.

* Baron, John M. D.

* Baron, John, " The Life of Edward Jenner with illustrations of his doctrines and selections from his correspondence ".

* 1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer ( d. 1844 )

John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst | The Lord Wakehurst takes the oath of office upon his arrival in Sydney in 1937.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

* John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar ( 1807 – 1876 ), UK MP, NSW Governor, Canadian Governor General

* 1910 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English army officer and mountaineer ( d. 1998 )

Under Admiral John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Jellicoe was made Director of Naval Ordnance in 1905.

His elder daughter, Mary, married John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden.

In 1873, on the death of his father, John Strutt, 2nd Baron Rayleigh, he inherited the Barony of Rayleigh.

There followed the materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d ' Holbach, Denis Diderot, and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as in England, John " Walking " Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

* 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant ( b. 1893 )