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On Her Majesty's grant of Woodstock Park, &c

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https://digital.nls.uk/85447807

Description

" ... To His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, 1704. In a letter to Signior Antonio Verrio at Hampton-Court". First line reads: Renown'd in arms, when mighty heroes rise. In one column. Authorship attributed to Bainbrigg Buckeridge. The grant to Marlborough was due, in part at least, to victory at Blenheim - "Marlborough finally returned to London on 25 December 1704, and on 28 January 1705 the queen granted him the former royal manor of Woodstock, with its historical associations as the birthplace of the Black Prince and of the romantic liaisons of Henry II with his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. The grant included the hundred of Wotton, comprising together a total of some 22,000 acres in Oxfordshire, then estimated to produce revenue of about £6000 a year" (DNB).

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.3041

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Library catalogue record

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1705 [Date printed]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Ballads
Politics

Person / organisation:

Buckeridge, Bainbrigg, 1668-1733 [Attributed name]
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722 [Subject of text]
Verrio, Antonio, 1636?-1707 [Subject of text]
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 [Subject of text]

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English ballads

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.

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