The popish tories confession, or, An answer to the Whiggs exaltation : These are true tories every mothers son, though [colemaniz'd], yet they no mischief shun : Tory, said I, nay, yet a little more, [?] that names bad, a worse there is in store, [?], of Rome that court the sca[r]let [w]hore, no honest man who King and state does love, will of a name so odious approve : which from the worst of Irish thieves at first had its beginning, and with blood was nurst : which shews it s of a right popish breed, as in their own confession you may read / Being a pleasant new song, to the tune of, Hey boys up go we.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3:2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tory Party (Great Britain).

Broadsides--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Broadsides.

Tory Party (Great Britain)--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Whig Party (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800.

Whig Party (Great Britain).

Controversial literature.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; oblong1/2⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger, and M. Coles, [between 1681 and 1684?]

Summary:

A political ballad.

Notes:

Verse - "A [por] of Whigs, we'l now gro wise,"

Date and place of publication from Wing.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[88], cropped and faded at head, with some loss of title, one woodcut and text.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3:2.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P2957B

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR233654.

OCLC:

63661880