Billy B----'s Adventure (sources)

• PRIMARY SOURCE: The Table Book: or, Daily recreation and information concerning remarkable men, manners, times, seasons, solemnities, merry-makings, antiquities and novelties, forming a complete history of the year, by William Hone, 1827 London, England. Pgs. 741-744. Online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=bmpMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA742&dq=%22john+lambert%22+%22bargest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4S-SVLKsGJL0oAS9zYH4Cw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22john%20lambert%22%20%22bargest%22&f=false

Mentions & Repeaters

• Popular Romances of the West of England, -or- The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, Vol. I, collected and edited by Robert Hunt, 1865 (first series) London, England. Pgs. 315-316. Online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=wA1glmqw9dYC&pg=PA315&dq=%22john+lambert%22+%22bargest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4S-SVLKsGJL0oAS9zYH4Cw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22john%20lambert%22%20%22bargest%22&f=false (third Edition, 1881, at: https://books.google.com/books?id=XPkGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA472&dq=%22You+see,+sir,+as+how+I%27d+been+a+clock-dressing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cymSVMb5IMPxoASUsILIDA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22You%20see%2C%20sir%2C%20as%20how%20I%27d%20been%20a%20clock-dressing%22&f=false)
• "Spectre-Dogs," chapter in English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, by Edwin Sidney Hartland, 1890. Online at Sacred Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/index.htm