The high and mightie commendation of the vertue of a pot of good ale. : Full of wit without offence, of mirth without obscenitie, of pleasure without scurrilitie, and of good content without distaste. Whereunto is added the valiant battell fought betweene the Norfolk cock and the Wisbich cock. written by Thomas Randall.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.

Contributor:

Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.

Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.

Series:

Thomason Tracts ; 27:E.15320.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking customs--England--Early works to 1800.

Drinking customs.

Ale--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Ale.

Cockfighting--England--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Cockfighting.

England.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and J. Wright, MDCXLII. [1642]

Notes:

Thomas Randall = Thomas Randolph, though they are occasionally identified as two different people. Sometimes also attributed to John Taylor.

"The valiant battell" is attributed to Robert Wild by Charles Cotton in "The compleat gamester", 1674, p. 229.

In verse.

With a title-page woodcut.

Signatures: A⁴.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 27:E.153[20]). s1977 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) R233A.

Thomason E.153[20].

OCLC:

61378896