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Skillicorn, John, Laxey Carols, collection (1836-1838), NLW MS 409A
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Manx carols

A volume containing a collection of seventeen carvals copied 1836-1838 by more than one hand, one of the scribes being John Skillicorn, a miner of Laxey; five of the works are stated to have been composed by John Lewin of Lonan in 1798 and five of the pieces were printed in Carvalyn Gailckagh (Peel, 1891).