Record

Document Reference	Pw V 47/68 (ff 95r-95v)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'A Ballad to the Tune of Packington's Pound', not ascribed; 1691
Date	1692 (c)
Level	Piece
Content Description	A full description of the volume in which this appears can be found under the reference Pw V 47.
Content Description	Text consists of two 9-line verses and one 18-line verse (the last). Dated 1691 in this manuscript. 'Sunderlands Moll Meggs', appears in margin beside line 4, referring to 'statesman and Bawd' in the text.
Title Of Work	A Ballad to the Tune of Packington's Pound
First Line of Poem	Who'd have thought that Romes Convert so neer
Last Line of Poem	For the Honour of England to Battell shall ride
Language	English
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 47.
Related Material	Crum, Index, W 2202
	University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 44/19
	University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 46/78
	University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 48/35
	Other versions of the same MS.
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 396-9
Publication Note	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 564-70