Record

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