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Congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/86225480
Description	First line reads: Joy to the greatest monarch of the earth! In one column.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.2465
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1688 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Births Princes Poems
Person / organisation:	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 [Author] James II, King of England, 1633-1701 [Subject of text] James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766 [Subject of text] Canning, William, active 1686-1690 [Bookseller]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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