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An excellent new ballad. Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.

Accession number
PML 196126
Published
[London : s.n., 1737]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Notes
Broadside ballad in 23 stanzas satirizing Marshalsea judge Sir Thomas Abney for appearing in the funeral procession of Queen Caroline contrary to the order of precedence.
"(Price Two-pence)".
Also included in A new miscellany for the year 1738 (London : s.n., 1738), p. 42-44; the text corresponding to the broadside edition with the exception of an added refrain of "Derry down, down, &c".
Library's copy backed in brown paper.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 40 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy is corrected and annotated in ink in a contemporary hand, with the stanzas renumbered and an additional stanza numbered "11" written in the right hand margin: On a level with others the knight not content / To the pulpit to be more conspicuous went / In another Procession so not long ago / A Brother perch'd high to see the fine show.
Binding
Unbound sheet.
Classification
Department