Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift. First line reads: A widow kept a favourite cat. In one column. On Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough. A variant has "Price one peny" after the imprint.
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.
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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.