71 RIDE A COCK HORSE TO BANBURY CROSS,

The identity of the woman is difficult to determine, as for the origin, the line, bells on her toes suggests that she was wearing shoes with long tapered toes on the end of which was a bell as worn in the 15th century, the cross that she was riding to was probably the Goodly Crosse at Banbury, which was destroyed early in the 16th century . After being badly defaced by the inhabitants of Banbury. There are another three rhymes with almost identical first lines, ie. to Charing Cross, Coventry Cross and to Shrewsbury Cross