Record

Document Reference	Pw V 629
Title	MS song entitled 'An Excellent new Ballad, on the fall of Guineas'; 1715
Date	1715
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of twelve 3-line verses plus refrain 'which nobody can deny'. According to Needham, a printed copy of this broadside, endorsed 1715, was in the library at Welbeck, shelfmark 39.H.1. Manuscript copy in the same hand as Pw V 626.
Title Of Work	An Excellent new Ballad, on the fall of Guineas
First Line of Poem	One and twenty and sixpence not three weeks ago
Last Line of Poem	For fear t'should be seis'd by the Sweed or Muscov(?)
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio leaf
Condition	Fragile
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Pro Patria, Dutch maiden and Seven Provinces rampant Lion within fenced field, 87 x 90 mm
Watermark	Pro Patria
Publication Note	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, p 274