Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries

(these 4 lines in 2 cols, two and two.)
To the Tune of, The Young-man's Legacy : Or, Sinners Redemption. |
Finis. I
This may be Printed, R. P. |
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in | Pye-Corner. | [1685-88.]
6 small woodcuts, 4 cols. B.L.
2
Huth g-. Eumg 297.
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192—Brave Devonshire Boys made haste away, |
When News did come from Tinmouth-bay, |
The I Devonshire Boys Courage | And | Loyalty to Their Majesties
King William and | Queen Mary; in defending their Country | from
the Invasion of the French. |
To an Excellent New Tune; call'd The Devonshire Boys delight: Or, The
Liggan waters, &c. |
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back. | [ 1690—end of July. ]
3 woodcuts, 4 cols. B.L.
Imperfect, wanting one line in ist and 2nd cols, at the foot.
On the verso of this is printed " The Devonshire Damsel's FroUick = Tom and William
with Ned and Ben ". q.v.
Reference to the burning and cannonading of " Poor Tinmouth Town " (line 20) : Teign-
mouth was bombarded and nearly destroyed by the French fleet under De Tourville, July
1690.
B.S. -—. Rox. —2 . Pepys ■—5. Euing 233.
325 136, 137 V. ^^ 358 6 03
193—Brave Sir John Harman, his great Name will be, |
A sacred Relique to Posterity; |
An Encomium, | Or | Congratulatory Poem | Occasionally Written,
upon the Happy Sucesses of | Capt. Thomas Harman, Commander |
Of his Majestie's Friggate, the Tiger. | With an Exact Relation of
His late Signal Victory Off Cadis. |
I shall, no Heathen Deity Implore :
Be those IdoUaters who need it more.
The Subject will my Pen with Wit Infuse ;
And of a Barren,—make a fruitfull Muse.