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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 539
Title
MS poem entitled 'A New Ballad to the tune off Packingtons pound'; n.d.
Date
n.d.
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of eight 9-line verses.
Also know by the title 'Salisbury-Steeple revers'd'.
Title Of Work
A New Ballad to the tune off Packingtons pound
First Line of Poem
When the twenty Brave pleaders, call'd out of the throng
Last Line of Poem
they went of wth a whoop, and he wth a Hallow
Language
English
Physical Description
One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition
Generally good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, approx. 90 x 95 mm
Countermark: Monogram, cursive letters FD, approx. 15 x 25 mm
Watermark
Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material
Crum, Index, T 1765
Publication Note
A Collection of Poems, for and against Dr Sacheverell (London, 1710) i, p 4
Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 564-70
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