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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 725
Title
MS song relating to meeting of Whig Lords at Devonshire House to discuss peerage bill; 1719
Date
1719
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of eighteen 3-line verses.
Endorsed 'Transcribed to be examined'.
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 singe of a Meeting has happen'd of late
Last Line of Poem
Which no Body can deny
Language
English
Physical Description
One sheet folded once forming 2 folio leaves
Condition
Very fragile, delicate
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Pro Patria, Dutch maiden facing left and Seven Provinces rampant Lion within fenced field, 81 x 91 mm
Countermark: Royal Cipher, crowned GR surrounded 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 702
University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note
Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 294-98
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