Congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales - Literature & Theatre - English ballads

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1688 [Date printed]
1800-1900 [Date printed]

Places:

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

Subject / content:

Ballads
Poems
Princes
Births

Person / organisation:

James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766 [Subject of text]
James II, King of England, 1633-1701 [Subject of text]
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 [Author]
Canning, William, active 1686-1690 [Bookseller]

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Congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales

Description

First line reads: Joy to the greatest monarch of the earth! In one column.

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.2465

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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

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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