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Shining sisters
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/86225491
Description	" ... Written at Tunbridge". First line reads: Now, happy spring, retrieve thy sinking name. In one column. Printed beneath the imprint: (Price 2d.). In praise of Marlborough and the beauties of his daughters. Sometimes attributed to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.2875
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1712 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Dukes Daughters Beauty
Person / organisation:	Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21 [Attributed name] Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722 [Subject of text]
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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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