[A New] ballad [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of, 1649-1685--Poetry.

Monmouth, James Scott.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ([1] p.) )

Place of Publication:

[London? : s.n., 1717-1718]

Notes:

Publication date range from Foxon.

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

Includes: An excellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's. Begins "One and twenty and six-pence, not three weeks ago,". First line of last stanza has "Hannover" (Foxon E552). The sheet is 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 Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Foxon, N53

Foxon, E552

English Short Title Catalog, N71106.

Contains:

Excellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's.

OCLC:

508338910