Record

Document Reference	Pw V 702
Title	MS song entitled 'An excellent new Ballad To the Tune of No Body can deny'; 1719
Date	1719
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of eighteen 3-line verses plus refrain. Sung to the tune 'Which nobody can deny'. Figures on verso in lead. The ballad dates from 1719 and refers to the meeting of the Whig Lords at Devonshire House to discuss the Peerage Bill.
Title Of Work	An excellent new Ballad To the Tune of No Body can deny
First Line of Poem	I sing of a meeting has happen'd of late
Last Line of Poem	He cares not a fig for his prerogative which nobody can deny
Language	English
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Fragile
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Pro Patria, Dutch maiden and Seven Provinces rampant Lion within fenced field, 82 x 88 mm Countermark: Royal cipher, crowned letters GR flanked by palm fronds within a circle, 41 x 41 mm
Watermark	Pro Patria
Related Material	Crum, Index, I 463
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Rawl. poet. d 400, f 93
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Tanner 306, f 479
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Firth b 22, f 20
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 725
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 294-98