Record

Document Reference	Pw V 774
Title	MS song, untitled, 'Ye Commons and Peers, who are bound by your Pay'; 28 Feb. 1734
Date	28 February 1734
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Untitled poem, known elsewhere as 'Jack French - mans Defeat', Oudenarde, 1708. Text consists of fourteen 3-line verses, plus refrain. Copy dated 28 February 1734.
First Line of Poem	Ye Commons and Peers, who are bound by your Pay
Last Line of Poem	When I've nothing to ask and you nothing to spend
Language	English
Physical Description	Single folio
Condition	Fragile
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Royal Cipher, crowned GR surrounded by palm fronds and enclosed in a circle, 42 x 42 mm; central mark, monogram IL, 17 x 14 mm
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 782
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	J.W. Ebsworth (ed.), Bagford Ballads (1878) I, p 386
Publication Note	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 274-78