A new ballad.

Format Electronic
Publication Info[London?], [1717 - 1718]
Description1 sheet ; 1/4⁰.
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General notePublication date range from Foxon.
General noteA slip-song - "At James's house, is a damnable rout,".
General noteOriginally 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.
General noteThe 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).
General noteReproduction of original from the British Library.
References Foxon, N53
References Foxon, E553
References English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT226129.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Other titleExcellent new ballad on the fall of guinea's.

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