A new ballad.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 sheet ; 1/(4to)

Place of Publication:

[London?], [publisher not identified], [1717 - 1718]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Publication date range from Foxon.

A slip-song - "At James's house, is a damnable rout,".

Originally printed as a 1/2⁰ sheet with another song on the right-hand side entitled 'An excellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's', with first line "One and twenty and six-pence, not three weeks ago,", which song has in the first line of last stanza "Hanover" (Foxon E553); the sheet meant to be divided.

The first song is a "satire on the quarrel between King George and the Prince of Wales at the christening of his son George William" and the second song a "Jacobite satire on the devaluation of the guinea .. in December 1717" (Foxon).

Reproduction of original from the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements s2003 miunns

Cited in:

Foxon, N53

Foxon, E553

English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT226129.

Contains:

Excellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's.

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